On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 09:33:22PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > I then tried octave-dbg (3.6.3-2), again with libhdf5-openmpi-7. It > still crashes. But as before, awkwardly it does not crash when run > inside gdb, so I still can't collect a backtrace.
How about running it under strace? And you might be able to get a core dump, after all. See http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml and search for ulimit. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org