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

[Thomas Weber]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 01:03:05PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> The interaction with gdb is odd. An error is found, but the octave
> command line appears regardless.  I think octave catches the error,
> but doesn't panic inside gdb.  So no backtrace is available. The gdb
> behaviour is:
> $ gdb octave 
> GNU gdb (GDB) 7.4.1-debian
> Reading symbols from /usr/bin/octave...(no debugging symbols found)...done.

Please install octave-dbg and try again (not that I think it will help,
but maybe we are lucky just once and get more information).

> Is the octave-core file useful?
The default answer to that question is "no". In fact, I cannot remember
a single case where the octave-core file was of use.

	Thomas