[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#352671: octave2.9: Control-C sends octave into a busy loop

[Andrey Romanenko]

Package: octave2.9
Version: 2.9.4-12
Severity: normal

If I hit Control-C in an Octave session, the interpreter enters a busy
loop (according to top) and stops responding. A gentle "kill" from
another shell is able to terminate the Octave session. It is possible to 
reproduce the problem using the following simple example:

for i=1:100
   printf("%d\n", i);
   sleep(1);
endfor;

It should be noted that this bug existed in the previous debian version
of 2.9 in the testing distribution.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-newton
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages octave2.9 depends on:
ii  atlas3-base [liblapack.s 3.6.0-19        Automatically Tuned Linear 
Algebra
ii  atlas3-sse2 [liblapack.s 3.6.0-19        Automatically Tuned Linear 
Algebra
ii  fftw3                    3.0.1-14        library for computing Fast 
Fourier
ii  lapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.0.20000531a-6 library of linear algebra 
routines
ii  libc6                    2.3.5-8         GNU C Library: Shared libraries 
an
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.0.2-5       GCC support library
ii  libgfortran0             4.0.2-5         Runtime library for GNU Fortran 
ap
ii  libglpk0                 4.8-3           linear programming kit (shared 
lib
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.4-0c2 1.6.4-4         Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libncurses5              5.5-1           Shared libraries for terminal 
hand
ii  libreadline5             5.1-5           GNU readline and history 
libraries
ii  libstdc++6               4.0.2-5         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libumfpack4              4.4-3           set of routines for solving 
unsymm
ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3]  1.2-8           Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 
3
ii  texinfo                  4.8-4           Documentation system for on-line 
i
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-9       compression library - runtime

octave2.9 recommends no packages.

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