[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#743885: Bug#743885: Bug#743885: octave: Octave triggers an assertion in Mesa

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 13:57:35 +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 12:07:18PM -0400, Mike Miller wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 23:51:46 +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > > I am filing the bug right now in the hope that someone has an idea on
> > > how to continue with this - I have no clue whatsoever about Mesa.
> > 
> > I am unable to reproduce on my laptop with Intel integrated graphics,
> > and I'm using the same i965 driver that your backtrace lists. I don't
> > know much about mesa either, but it could be that this is hardware
> > dependent since the assertion seems to be coming specifically from the
> > i965 driver.
> > 
> > Do you have a different video card you can test on?
> 
> I am running Debian unstable only on my laptop (Lenovo T61). I might be
> able to test it on some other hardware, but that would require quite an
> investment of time (installing Debian, while keeping my 2.5 year old from
> "helping" Daddy :)). And I am lacking time already.

Can you still reproduce this on unstable now?

Someone claims on the Ubuntu equivalent bug report [1] that Mesa 10.2.7
fixed it. I see Mesa 10.2.8 is in unstable now. It's a shot in the dark,
but any chance it's fixed for you?

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/octave/+bug/1313952/comments/5

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mike