[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#876363: octave fetches network resources when network access disabled

[D Haley]

P.S. I assume the reason for the line not being present is that it was
not written to the file in an earlier version, and I have upgraded to a
later version which only writes the line when re-creating the file from
scratch.

On 21/09/17 18:04, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 17:58:04 +0100, D Haley wrote:
>> Thanks for getting back so quickly.  That command yields no output (no
>> such line) - the file does however exist.
>>
>> $ grep allow_web_connection ~/.config/octave/qt-settings
>> $
> 
> Ok. That indicates that the setting is not actually being saved. It's
> possible that Octave is not able to save its settings at all. Can you
> check the file permissions and ownership? If you delete the file or move
> it out of the way does it work as expected?
>