[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#738672: Bug#738672: --force-gui first segfaults and then seems to not start (at least I can't see it)

[Sébastien Villemot]

Control: tags -1 + unreproducible

Hi Yaroslav,

Le mardi 11 février 2014 à 14:17 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko a écrit :
> Package: octave
> Version: 3.8.0-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Decided to give a glorious beast (octave gui) a try, installed from
> experimental (the base system is a mix of jessie/sid), running awesome
> window-manager under XFCE4.
> 
> upon initial start, the welcome wizard came alone, I allowed to fetch help from
> online, and then kaboom:
> 
> $> octave --force-gui
> *** Error in `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/3.8.0/exec/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/octave-gui': corrupted double-linked list: 0x00007efef0257bd0 ***

Unfortunately I cannot reproduce your problem. I have an up-to-date sid,
and I tested under both GNOME and Xfce.

Can you try to replicate the problem on another system?

Also, does the problem persist after you remove
~/.config/octave/qt-settings ?

Cheers,

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