[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#589303: Bug#589303: octave3.2: crashes reproducibly

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@gmail.com>]

On 16 July 2010 10:43, Francesco Potortì <Potorti@isti.cnr.it> wrote:
> octave:1> pkg global_list /usr/share/octave/packages/3.2/octave_packages;
>
> octave:2> pkg prefix /usr/share/octave/packages/3.2 /usr/lib/octave/packages/3.2;
>
> octave:3> pkg load communications
> warning: mark_as_command is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave
>
[snip]
> octave:5> rand;sum(rand("state",1));
> panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> save to `octave-core' complete
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I can't reproduce this on the development sources. I guess we can just
wait for Jaroslav to make a new Octave release and package that?
Instead I get:

     octave:7> rand;sum(rand("state",1));
     error: Invalid call to sum.  Correct usage is:
     [stuff]

On the other hand, the communications package needs an update. It
looks like erfcx got moved into Octave main.