[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#458852: octave3.0 crashes on arm

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

Package: octave3.0
Version: 3.0.0-1
Severity: grave

just try 

echo version | octave

or 

octave

on an arm machine:


$ uname -a
Linux arm 2.6.18-4-versatile #1 Sun Jun 17 14:34:28 UTC 2007 armv5tejl GNU/Linux

$ octave
GNU Octave, version 3.0.0
Copyright (C) 2007 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "arm-unknown-linux-gnu".

Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html

Report bugs to <bug at octave.org> (but first, please read
http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).

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panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
Segmentation fault


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-rc6-sonne (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave3.0 depends on:
ii  atlas3-base [liblapack 3.6.0-20.6        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  atlas3-sse2 [liblapack 3.6.0-20.6        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  lapack3 [liblapack.so. 3.0.20000531a-6.1 library of linear algebra routines
ii  libc6                  2.7-5             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.17.1-1          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libfftw3-3             3.1.2-3           library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libg2c0                1:3.4.6-6         Runtime library for GNU Fortran 77
ii  libgcc1                1:4.2.2-5         GCC support library
ii  libglpk0               4.25-1            linear programming kit with intege
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.5-0 1.6.5-5+b1        Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libncurses5            5.6+20071215-1    Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3               7.3-2             Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libqhull5              2003.1-8          calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.2.2-5           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsuitesparse         3.0.0-7           collection of libraries for comput
ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3 1.2-8             Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  texinfo                4.11.dfsg.1-3     Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-8  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages octave3.0 recommends:
ii  atlas3-base                   3.6.0-20.6 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  gnuplot                       4.2.2-1    A command-line driven interactive 

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