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

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Sébastien Villemot wrote:

> Control: tags -1 + unreproducible

> > 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?

thank you for trying... most probably it is indeed some idiosyncrasy of
my environment... will try in clean sid chroot and will report back


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

yes -- then welcome dialog appears but the same effect at the end
(segfault, no window upon restart)

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