octave gui not working - 'exiting with signal 6'

[Lee Strobel]

Hi,

I seem to be having a problem and I'm wondering if anyone can help?

When I try to launch the Octave gui, the window opens and then closes
after about 3 seconds, with the message 'octave exited with signal 6'.
The cli version seems to work fine and I am not having issues with any
other X graphical programs.

The problem seems similar to the one described here:

http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/octave-signal-6-td4683806.html

I have read that thread and tried using strace. At first, strace showed
quite a few links to libraries that relate to OpenFOAM (free software
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) program), which I also have
installed. I had something in my .bashrc that set up some environment
variables to do with OpenFOAM, which may have caused some sort of
interference.

So, I removed that from .bashrc and now I don't see any references to
OpenFOAM in the strace output, but the Octave gui still isn't working.
I will attach the output of strace to this e-mail (I used strace -f, so
that it follows child processes). I can't see anything obvious in the
output that might be causing the problem. It looks like one of the
child processes is aborting for some reason, but I can't see what is
causing it.

It seems strange, because I am sure the Octave gui was working just
after I installed it, but now it isn't. I have tried uninstalling and
re-installing. I am using Parabola GNU/Linux (Arch-based) on an Armv7
Chromebook - the latest package version is 'octave 5.1.0-4'.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Regards,

Lee Strobel

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