> Bruce McNamara wrote:
>> Before: I have cygwin (ver 1.5.25-15) with octave (ver 3.0.2-1), X
and a
>> few other packages.  My OS is XP with Service Pack 3.  Everything
works
>> fine.
>>
>> Possible cause: I installed the GNUARM tools
>
>   Argh.  http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#3PP alert!
>
>> After: When I run octave, either from a bash shell or an xterm
window, it
>> just thinks for a couple of seconds and then gives me another prompt
- if
>> octave ran, it quit right away.  There is no error message or other
>> indication of what went wrong.  Other /usr/bin executables run just
fine.
>
>   Standard shell advice: use "echo $?" to check the exit status if
there's no
> error message.

When I run echo $? after running octave I get: 53

>
>> I've tried: I've rebooted my computer.  I've "reinstall"ed octave
from
>> Setup.exe.  I've uninstalled octave, then installed it again.  I've
>> uninstalled ALL of cygwin, then installed it again with just the
cygwin
>> base and octave (no X or other packages).  In all cases the behavior
is the
>> same.
>>
>> I'm not a linux or cygwin expert and don't really know where to start
>> debugging this.  I'm not sure if this is a problem with cygwin or
octave.
>
>   It's a problem with having multiple clashing cygwin installations at
the
> same time.  You've probably got two versions of the cygwin DLL in your
PATH at
> once, and I see that GnuARM ships with libiconv/libintl as well, which
also
> might be interfering.
>
>   We'll need to see your cygcheck output, as described at
> http://cygwin.com/problems.html (please pay special attention to the
request
> to send the .out file as an attachment rather than inline text, it
makes a
> nasty mess in the archives if you paste it into the body of your
email!)

I've attached the cygcheck output.