[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#340320: octave2.1-headers: mkoctfile generated functions crash randomly

[Teemu Ikonen]

On 11/28/05, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> wrote:
> * Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2005-11-28 22:28]:
>
> > Indeed, this seems to be the case.  With the octave2.9_2.9.4-8 package
> > [...]
>
> Sorry, I meant octave2.1_2.1.72-6.

Unfortunately, for me 2.1.72-6 is even worse than before. I get a
crash immediately after starting Octave:

$ octave --norc
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*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08ab3a10 ***
panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
Aborted

I guess this is what you get from mixing Debian releases during
library transitions :)

Teemu