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.html Read 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
