[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

Drew Parsons dparsons at debian.org
Mon Dec 10 09:02:48 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 08:45 +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> 
> A few more questions:
> 
> - what is your currently selected BLAS implementation? (display it with
> update-alternatives --display libblas.so.3). If it is
> not /usr/lib/libblas/libblas.so.3, please try again with that one
> selected.
> 

It was configured to /usr/lib/atlas-base/atlas/libblas.so.3
But after changing to /usr/lib/libblas/libblas.so.3, it still panics.


> - do you have any octave-* add-on installed? If yes, please retry after
> uninstalling them.

I had a dozen installed, but the panic is still there after removing
them, even after purging and reinstalling octave.

> - does removing the "-q" flag give more informative messages?

No, just the standard header,
$ octave
GNU Octave, version 3.6.2
Copyright (C) 2012 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "x86_64-pc-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

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



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