[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#874208: octave: audiodevinfo makes octave segfault when jackd is running

["Peter P." <peterparker@fastmail.com>]

* Mike Miller <mtmiller@debian.org> [2017-09-08 05:35]:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 18:08:40 +0200, Peter P. wrote:
> > Thanks for the clear instructions Mike, here it is:
> > 
> > ~$ gdb --args octave-cli
> > [...]
> > Reading symbols from octave-cli...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/a7/beba93cf5339eac11d645050513a47c65388a8.debug...done.
> 
> Thanks, that looks better.
> 
> So a segmentation fault occurs in a jack client thread that must start
> as a result of jack_activate, which is called by Pa_Initialize.
> 
> I don't have a jack setup to try this on at the moment. It would be
> useful to see if someone else can reproduce, and also to see if other
> PortAudio-based programs or simple demos work with jack.
The two other programs I have installed that are using libportaudio2 are
pure-data and audacity. And they both work with and without jack.