octave run interactively freezes when you change directory

[Lars Bungum]

When you run octave-mode then run-octave and try to change the directory it gives this error and freezes: "No such directory found via CDPATH environment variable".

When I googled it it was funny, but posts back to 2006 complained about the same thing, some people speculating in a problem with the file octace-inf.el. I tried a couple of patches but was not able to get anything to work.

Anyway, the octave-mode seems broken, and it should be fixed or left out, methinks. The interaction with the shell is kind of cruicial to its operation.

Thanks for looking at this.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: emacs24-el 24.3+1-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-34.60-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-34-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Thu Oct 9 00:43:21 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-13 (602 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: emacs24
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-02 (159 days ago)