[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#699300: Bug#699300: Octave crashes with Matrix multiply

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Bill,

First of all, keep 699300 at bugs.debian.org in the Cc list, such that this 
discussion is recorded in the BTS.  I am doing this and I hope you do not 
mind that I copied your private message here.

As regards your question:

* whludescher <whludescher at verizon.net> [2013-01-31 07:46]:
>
> Yes I am running squeeze so I loaded up Octave 3.6.2 as per your 
> suggestion, again using the synaptic package manager . Unfortunately, I 
> have the same problem with matrix multiply. Is this a known bug or must 
> it be something unique to my system. I can't believe that the octave 
> community would tolerate such a problem.

This is weird.  I have never tested the backported 3.6.2 version of the 
octave package in a squeeze system.  However, the build daemon succeeded 
to build the package and passed all the unit tests:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=octave&arch=i386&ver=3.6.2-5~bpo60%2B1&stamp=1350987957

(look for "test scripts" in the page above).

I would say that there is indeed something wrong with your system, but I 
am not sure.

At any rate, without more precise information from you, we are not able 
to even imagine the origin of this bug.

Rafael