[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#635520: octave3.2: Octave dies with "panic: Illegal instruction"

[Shan Mignot]

Package: octave3.2
Version: 3.2.4-10
Severity: important


When prompted to plot something, Octave dies with:
octave:1> plot (1:5)
panic: Illegal instruction -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
zsh: illegal hardware instruction  octave

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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 octave3.2 depends on:
ii  libamd2.2.0         1:3.4.0-2            approximate minimum degree orderin
ii  libarpack2          2.1+parpack96.dfsg-3 Fortran77 subroutines to solve lar
ii  libatlas3gf-base [l 3.8.3-27             Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libbz2-1.0          1.0.5-6              high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6               2.13-10              Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcamd2.2.0        1:3.4.0-2            symmetric approximate minimum degr
ii  libccolamd2.7.1     1:3.4.0-2            constrained column approximate lib
ii  libcholmod1.7.1     1:3.4.0-2            sparse Cholesky factorization libr
ii  libcolamd2.7.1      1:3.4.0-2            column approximate minimum degree 
ii  libcurl3-gnutls     7.21.6-3             Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libcxsparse2.2.3    1:3.4.0-2            concise sparse matrix library (com
ii  libfftw3-3          3.2.2-1              library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libfltk1.1          1.1.10-6             Fast Light Toolkit - shared librar
ii  libfreetype6        2.4.4-2              FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libftgl2            2.1.3~rc5-3          library to render text in OpenGL u
ii  libgcc1             1:4.6.1-4            GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3        4.6.1-4              Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [li 7.10.3-3             free implementation of the OpenGL 
ii  libglpk0            4.43-1.1             linear programming kit with intege
ii  libglu1-mesa [libgl 7.10.3-3             The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libgomp1            4.6.1-4              GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library
ii  libgraphicsmagick++ 1.3.12-1+b2          format-independent image processin
ii  libgraphicsmagick3  1.3.12-1+b2          format-independent image processin
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.8. 1.8.4-patch1-2       Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libice6             2:1.0.7-2            X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjasper1          1.900.1-7+b1         The JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime libra
ii  libjpeg62           6b1-1                The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblcms1            1.18.dfsg-1.2+b4     Color management library
ii  libltdl7            2.4-2                A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libncurses5         5.9-1                shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3            8.12-3               Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libpng12-0          1.2.46-1             PNG library - runtime
ii  libqhull5           2009.1-1             calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libqrupdate1        1.0.1-1              Fast updates of QR and Cholesky de
ii  libreadline6        6.2-2                GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsm6              2:1.2.0-2            X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6          4.6.1-4              GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4            3.9.5-1              Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libumfpack5.4.0     1:3.4.0-2            sparse LU factorization library
ii  libwmf0.2-7         0.2.8.4-8            Windows metafile conversion librar
ii  libx11-6            2:1.4.3-2            X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6            2:1.3.0-3            X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2             2.7.8.dfsg-3         GNOME XML library
ii  octave3.2-common    3.2.4-10             architecture-independent files for
ii  texinfo             4.13a.dfsg.1-6       Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages octave3.2 recommends:
ii  gnuplot                       4.4.0-1.1  A command-line driven interactive 
ii  libatlas3gf-base              3.8.3-27   Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra

Versions of packages octave3.2 suggests:
pn  octave3.2-doc                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  octave3.2-emacsen             <none>     (no description available)
pn  octave3.2-headers             <none>     (no description available)
pn  octave3.2-htmldoc             <none>     (no description available)
ii  octave3.2-info                3.2.4-10   GNU Info documentation on the GNU 

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