[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#848102: [octave] crashed with some random typing in octave editor

[Ed Peguillan III]

I confirm this issue. Typing in the editor causes octave to exit "with 
signal 11." I was able to stop it from crashing by disabling one or more 
text autocompletion features in preferences.

Menu: Edit -> Preferences... -> Editor -> Autocompletion

I just unchecked everything in that section, and it seems not to crash 
anymore.

Ed

On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 06:44:53 +0000 lumin <cdluminate at gmail.com> wrote:
 > Package: octave
 > Version: 4.2.0-1
 > Severity: normal
 >
 > Hi,
 >
 > Randomly typing something in octave editor will cause
 > a crash with SIGSEGV.
 >
 > For example, I launched Octave and typed merely "asdfasdf"
 > and then octave crashed.
 >
 > (gdb) run
 > Starting program: /usr/bin/octave
 > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
 > Using host libthread_db library 
"/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
 > Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
 > octave exited with signal 11
 > [Inferior 1 (process 12389) exited normally]
 > (gdb)
 >
 >