Package: octave
Version: 3.8.1-1+b1
Severity: important
This bug was introduced after upgrading to Octave 3.8.1-1+b1,
and the bug was not there in 3.8.0 (I am not sure about this
version number. I can only remember that it was already 3.8,
introducing the experimental gui).
Just fresh install octave:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install octave
Then open octave [using --norc/--no-gui/--jit-compiler does
not affect the segfault]:
neo@testing ~> which octave
/usr/bin/octave
neo@testing ~> octave
GNU Octave, version 3.8.1
Copyright (C) 2014 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For details, type 'warranty'.
Octave was configured for "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu".
Additional information about Octave is available at
http://www.octave.org.
Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit
http://www.octave.org/get-involved.htmlRead
http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to submit bug reports.
For information about changes from previous versions, type 'news'.
octave:1> plot(1:4)
panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to 'octave-workspace'...
save to 'octave-workspace' complete
neo@testing ~> octave -q
> load octave-workspace
> whos
> # there is no variables here
So the octave-workspace does not provide any information.
A figure window opens, and then closed again after the segfault.
If we try opening figure by itself calling `figure', there was
no segfault, until one of the following operations was performed:
1. Pushing `A' button at the down-left corner, or Edit->Autoscale
2. Pushing `G' button at the down-left cornet, or Edit->Grid
Any other interaction with this figure does not crash octave.
P.S. I am not sure if this is the same problem, but I think it is
better to include it here. After installing octave-psychtoolbox-3,
calling DrawSomeTextDemo or DotRotDemo provided by psychtoolbox,
also crashes with segfault, though this does not use figure. That
package extensively uses OpenGL.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages octave depends on:
ii default-jre-headless
2:1.7-51
ii libamd2.3.1 1:4.2.1-3
ii libarpack2 3.1.5-2
ii libatlas3-base [liblapack.so.3] 3.10.1-4
ii libblas3 [libblas.so.3] 1.2.20110419-7
ii libc6 2.18-4
ii libcamd2.3.1 1:4.2.1-3
ii libccolamd2.8.0 1:4.2.1-3
ii libcholmod2.1.2 1:4.2.1-3
ii libcolamd2.8.0 1:4.2.1-3
ii libcxsparse3.1.2 1:4.2.1-3
ii libfftw3-double3 3.3.3-7
ii libfftw3-single3 3.3.3-7
ii libfltk-gl1.3 1.3.2-4
ii libfltk1.3 1.3.2-4
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-2
ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-1
ii libgcc1 1:4.8.2-16
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 10.1.0-4
ii libglpk36 4.53-2
ii libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 9.0.0-2
ii libgomp1 4.8.2-16
ii libgraphicsmagick++3 1.3.18-1
ii libgraphicsmagick3 1.3.18-1
ii liblapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.5.0-2
ii liboctave2 3.8.1-1+b1
ii libqhull6 2012.1-4
ii libqrupdate1 1.1.2-1
ii libqscintilla2-11 2.8.1-1
ii libqt4-network 4:4.8.5+git242-g0315971+dfsg-2
ii libqtcore4 4:4.8.5+git242-g0315971+dfsg-2
ii libqtgui4 4:4.8.5+git242-g0315971+dfsg-2
ii libstdc++6 4.8.2-16
ii libumfpack5.6.2 1:4.2.1-3
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-1
ii octave-common 3.8.1-1
ii texinfo 5.2.0.dfsg.1-2
Versions of packages octave recommends:
ii gnuplot-x11 4.6.5-1
ii libatlas3-base 3.10.1-4
ii pstoedit 3.62-1
Versions of packages octave suggests:
pn octave-doc <none>
pn octave-htmldoc <none>
ii octave-info 3.8.1-1
-- no debconf information