[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#699300: [Fwd: Re: Bug#699300: Bug#699300: #699300: reproducible here]

[William Ludescher]

On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 18:56 +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Sorry I forgot to Cc you in my previous email. Please see the email
> attached. For the reply, please use 699300 at bugs.debian.org
> 
> email message attachment, "Message transféré - Re: [Pkg-octave-devel]
> Bug#699300: Bug#699300: #699300: reproducible here"
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org>
> > To: 699300 at bugs.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#699300: Bug#699300: #699300:
> > reproducible here
> > Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:42:45 +0100
> > 
> > Le vendredi 01 février 2013 à 10:46 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso a
> > écrit :
> > > On 1 February 2013 10:40, Roland Mas <lolando at debian.org> wrote:
> > > > As suggested on IRC, I tried to reproduce this bug on my
> > > > not-getting-any-younger laptop, and I did manage (using octave from
> > > > backports, since it's squeeze).  I include CPU info, since this seems to
> > > > be relevant.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for testing. The issue is probably that one or both of the
> > > libblas3gf or libatlas3gf-base packages are compiled with features
> > > SSE2 features or higher that some CPUs don't support. I now suspect
> > > this is a duplicate of #690671
> > 
> > This is indeed very likely.
> > 
> > Bill, you have two options:
> > 
> > - uninstall libatlas3gf-base
> > 
> > - alternatively, compile and install a custom ATLAS package as explained
> > in /usr/share/doc/libatlas3gf-base/README.Debian.gz
> > 
> > Please confirm that either solution fixes the bug.
> > 
Sebastien,
	Thanks for tracking this down. My processor only supports SSE
instructions, not SSE2. Uninstalling libatlas3gf-base solved my problem
but I'll have to study the suggested debian documentation to better
understand what was going on here.

Bill