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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-01-05 12:03]:

> 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.

Yes, the problem may be with some specific system or its libraries and not
with octave itself.  It would be good to find a stripped-down example that
fails on arm, such that we can present it to the Debian arm
developers/porters. 

I think we should ask for help on debian-arm.

-- 
Rafael