Package: octave Version: 3.8.1-1+b1 Severity: important Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, while upgrading (apt-get upgrade) octave-dataframe (0.9.1-1 => 1.0.0-1) the following error happened:
>> ... >> Processing triggers for octave (3.8.1-1+b1) ... >> warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/strings-1.1.0/strjoin.m shadows >> a core library function >> warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/expint.m shadows >> a core library function >> warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/erfcinv.m shadows >> a built-in function >> warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/ellipke.m shadows >> a core library function >> warning: function >> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-api-v49+/ellipj.oct >> shadows a built-in function >> warning: dx does not seem to be present some functionalities will be disabled >> error: 'dispatch' undefined near line 2 column 1 >> error: called from: >> error: /usr/share/octave/packages/fixed-0.7.10/PKG_ADD at line 2, column 1 >> error: addpath: all arguments must be character strings >> .... line repeated 27 times >> error: >> /usr/share/octave/3.8.1/m/pkg/private/load_packages_and_dependencies.m at >> line 47, column 5 >> error: /usr/share/octave/3.8.1/m/pkg/private/load_packages.m at line 60, >> column 3 >> error: /usr/share/octave/3.8.1/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 412, column 7 >> error: /usr/share/octave/3.8.1/m/startup/octaverc at line 22, column 1 >> dpkg: error processing package octave (--unpack): >> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 >> Errors were encountered while processing: >> octave >> ... in the changelog for liboctave2 one finds: >> 2014-03-01 Rik <r...@octave.org> >> >> doc: Remove "Legacy Dispatch" from Function Precedence section. >> >> * func.txi: Remove "Legacy Dispatch" from Function Precedence >> section. >> The dispatch function was removed and doesn't exist in 3.8. >> ..... so it seems that "dispatch" was removed deliberately, however the install/upgrade process depends on it. to workaround this and to finally finish the upgrade I searched for "dispatch.oct" in an older deb-package and copied it into: /usr/lib/octave/3.2.4/site/oct/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/dispatch.oct then I tried >> aptitude reinstall octave >> The following packages will be REINSTALLED: >> octave >> Preparing to unpack .../octave_3.8.1-1+b1_amd64.deb ... >> Unpacking octave (3.8.1-1+b1) over (3.8.1-1+b1) ... >> Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.6-1) ... >> Processing triggers for menu (2.1.46) ... >> Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ... >> Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54) ... >> Setting up octave (3.8.1-1+b1) ... >> ... the install finished successfully, however other error messages appear whenever I try to start octave, since I introduced library inconsistencies by using an ancient version of "dispatch.oct" -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.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 2.11.0-5 ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-1 ii libgcc1 1:4.8.2-16 ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 10.1.0-5 ii libglpk36 4.54-1 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 libopenblas-base [libblas.so.3] 0.2.8-6 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 libopenblas-base 0.2.8-6 ii pstoedit 3.62-1 Versions of packages octave suggests: ii octave-doc 3.8.1-1 ii octave-htmldoc 3.8.1-1 ii octave-info 3.8.1-1 ii octave3.2-doc [octave-doc] 3.2.4-12 ii octave3.2-htmldoc [octave-htmldoc] 3.2.4-12 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
