[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#485920: octave-miscellaneous: calling waitbar() makes Octave crash when run within Emacs

[Sebastien Villemot]

Package: octave-miscellaneous
Version: 1.0.6-2
Severity: normal

When I run Octave as an Emacs inferior process (with M-x run-octave), any call to waitbar() will make Octave segfault:


octave> waitbar(0)
panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete

Process Inferior Octave erreur de segmentation


I use emacs22-gtk (version 22.2+2-2), with octave3.0-emacsen (version 1:3.0.1-3). The crash happens whether I run Emacs in a terminal or under X-Windows. I have made no customization to octave3.0-emacsen settings.

Note that the segfault doesn't occur if Octave is directly run within a standard terminal.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave-miscellaneous depends on:
ii  libatlas3gf-base [libl 3.6.0-21.5        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libblas3gf [libblas.so 1.2-1.5           Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  libc6                  2.7-10            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfftw3-3             3.1.2-3           library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.0-5         GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3           4.3.0-5           Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.6-0 1.6.6-4           Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  liblapack3gf [liblapac 3.1.1-0.4         library of linear algebra routines
ii  libncurses5            5.6+20080308-1    Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.0-5           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  octave3.0              1:3.0.1-3         GNU Octave language for numerical 
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

octave-miscellaneous recommends no packages.

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