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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: panic: segfault at startup
- From: Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:03:05 +1100
- Message-id: <20121210020305.13431.6815.reportbug@schumann.anu.edu.au>
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.
The interaction with gdb is odd. An error is found, but the octave
command line appears regardless. I think octave catches the error,
but doesn't panic inside gdb. So no backtrace is available. The gdb
behaviour is:
$ gdb octave
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.4.1-debian
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/octave...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run -q
Starting program: /usr/bin/octave -q
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
error: fclose: invalid stream number = -1
error: called from:
error: /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 463, column 1
error: /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/startup/octaverc at line 21, column 1
octave:1>
Is the octave-core file useful?
Thanks,
Drew
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.6-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages octave depends on:
ii libamd2.2.0 1:3.4.0-3
ii libarpack2 3.1.1-2.1
ii libatlas3-base [liblapack.so.3] 3.8.4-9
ii libblas3 [libblas.so.3] 1.2.20110419-5
ii libc6 2.13-37
ii libcamd2.2.0 1:3.4.0-3
ii libccolamd2.7.1 1:3.4.0-3
ii libcholmod1.7.1 1:3.4.0-3
ii libcolamd2.7.1 1:3.4.0-3
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.28.0-3
ii libcxsparse2.2.3 1:3.4.0-3
ii libfftw3-3 3.3.2-3.1
ii libfltk1.1 1.1.10-14
ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-4
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 8.0.5-3
ii libglpk0 4.45-1
ii libgomp1 4.7.2-4
ii libgraphicsmagick++3 1.3.16-1.1
ii libgraphicsmagick3 1.3.16-1.1
ii liblapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.4.1-6
ii liboctave1 3.6.2-5
ii libpcre3 1:8.31-1
ii libqhull5 2009.1-3
ii libqrupdate1 1.1.1-1
ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-4
ii libumfpack5.4.0 1:3.4.0-3
ii octave-common 3.6.2-5
ii texinfo 4.13a.dfsg.1-10
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
Versions of packages octave recommends:
ii gnuplot-x11 4.6.0-8
ii libatlas3-base 3.8.4-9
Versions of packages octave suggests:
pn octave-doc <none>
ii octave-htmldoc 3.6.2-5
ii octave-info 3.6.2-5
-- no debconf information
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