[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#783034: Bug#783034: octave-ltfat breaks Octave rcond. Yields segmentation fault

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Charlie Hagedorn <charlie.hagedorn at gmail.com> [2015-04-20 16:14]:

> I agree that there's no obvious way for a subcomponent package to affect a 
> core-compiled function, but I see this effect on all three machines I have 
> access to today, all running testing ( vanilla testing install, upgraded 
> crouton install, upgraded Compute Engine instance) . For the machines where 
> I initially discovered this crashing problem, uninstalling the ltfat 
> package appears to have resolved the problem with rcond completely.

The fact that I cannot replicate the bug does not mean that the problem 
does not exist.  It only means that the problem cannot be confidently 
diagnosed.  I am afraid we will be able to act on this bug report only 
after the root of the problem gets exposed.

Thanks,

Rafael