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

Thomas Weber thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Sat Jan 5 11:03:28 UTC 2008


Am Samstag, den 05.01.2008, 10:14 +0100 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> * Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2008-01-03 21:53]:
> 
> > In order to investigate why Octave 3.0 is failing to work on arm
> > (Bug#458852, severity grave), I would need octave3.0_3.0.0-1 installed on a
> > sid chroot on one of the arm project machines. 
> 
> Peter Palfrader installed octave3.0, as well as gdb and strace, on the sid
> chroot of agnesi.debian.org.  I could replicate the segfault at startup bug.
> I am attaching below the output of strace and gdb run on octave.  It seems
> to fail in the install_defaults function, which is defined in
> src/defaults.cc. The output of strace is quite cryptic to me.  
> 
> If someone has an idea on how to proceed furthur, please drop a message.

Some data points from arm buildd logs:

1:2.9.19-2 [grieg] 	 works
1:2.9.19-1 [cats] 	 segfault
1:2.9.18-1 [hedges] 	 segfault
1:2.9.17-1 [smackdown} 	 works
1:2.9.16-1 [hedges] 	 segfault

3.0.0-1    [hedges] 	 segfault

buildds are named in brackets.

	Thomas







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