Octave crashed
Hello,
I have a problem with octave, see the following session from octave, it is
very simple (I want to compute eig(a) and then crash):
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$ octave
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warning: mark_as_command is obsolete and will be removed from a future version
of Octave
octave:1> a=rand(3,3)
a =
0.189941 0.570931 0.517541
0.092924 0.449368 0.680880
0.146931 0.266066 0.706786
octave:2> eig(a)
panic: Illegal instruction -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
Illegal instruction
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I use Debian Squueze 6.0. I have installed every package with octave-*
$ uname -a
Linux S1 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 04:01:41 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
Do you have also such problem or it is only specific to me on my hardware.
Zbigniew
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