[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

package octave 
tags 695551 unreproducible moreinfo 
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* Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org> [2012-12-10 13:03]:
> Package: octave 
> Version: 3.6.2-5 
> Severity: grave 
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> octave has just started failing to start, with the error message:
>
> $ octave -q 
> panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself... 
> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'... 
> save to `octave-core' complete 
> Segmentation fault 
> $ echo $? 
> 139
>
> (so octave exits immediately with error code 139.)
>
> The bug appears also in 3.6.3-2.
>
> [snip]

I cannot reproduce this bug on my amd64 testing system.  We need more 
information on your problem.  As a first step, could you please check 
Bug#695434?

Thanks,

Rafael