[Scilab-users] Scilab 6 crashes all the time

[Samuel Gougeon]

Hello Claus,

Thank you for telling things as they are. I experiment the same 
situation now for 2 years, on Windows 7 64 bits. It got a bit better 
with the official 6.0.0 release than with the nightly built a few days 
before the release, but it is still very unstable. With the pending 
6.0.1 as well (or bad).

I noticed that crashes are somewhat systematic when a bunch of 
instructions are echoed in the console (copy/pasting, or exec with echo 
from Scinotes), while executing the same instructions in a script in 
silent mode more often passes without crashing.

As far as i remember, after the awful 5.4.0 first version that yielded 
and sent an ocean of Java exceptions in the console, you succeeded in 
convincing the OP team to display exceptions elsewhere. In the hard 
meanwhile, i can say that Scilab was abandoned in some high schools of 
engineering for teaching, because it was just an unsustainable 
situation, and system administrators have many things to do out of 
testing how to overcome such aberration. This was an excellent publicity 
for Matlab (if it needed some), and a very efficient way to ruin efforts 
to highlight Scilab vs other comparable softwares.

Let's bet that you will be heard again :)

Regards
Samuel

Le 28/01/2018 à 12:11, Claus Futtrup a écrit :
> Dear Scilabers
>
> I'm running Scilab 6 on a Win7 machine, 64 bit, 4 GB RAM.
>
> Scilab crashes all the time, randomly, many times every day. Sometimes 
> when I have a fresh start and execute a script it happens first time + 
> second time - then third time Scilab is started, the script runs fine.
>
> Sometimes Scilab crashes when I work in the console, it can be any 
> command, even "help contourf" or something like that.
>
> Somtimes Scilab crashes when I am fiddling with a plot and 
> e.g. changing axis properties.
>
> The response I get from Win7 everytime is: Scilab 6.0.0 (GUI) stopped 
> working. Then the program can be closed.
>
> What is the problem / solution to the problem?
>
> Best regards,
> Claus