Bug#695551: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: Bug#695551: Bug#695551: Bug#695551: Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

2013-01-18 Thread Thomas Weber
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 09:03:09PM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > 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 ca

Bug#695551: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: Bug#695551: Bug#695551: Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

2012-12-13 Thread Thomas Weber
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

Bug#695551: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: Bug#695551: Bug#695551: Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

2012-12-13 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 13 December 2012 05:33, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 22:49 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: >> >> Please install octave-dbg and try again (not that I think it will help, >> but maybe we are lucky just once and get more information). >> > > I then tried octave-dbg (3.6.3-2), again with

Bug#695551: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: Bug#695551: Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

2012-12-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 20:38 -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > > Or is it any hdf5 variant? Have you tried installing the non-openmpi > libhdf5-7 with the original octave packages to see if that also > crashes on you? I didn't see whether you had tried that yet. > I've now tried octave (3.6.3-2, the ne

Bug#695551: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

2012-12-12 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 12 December 2012 16:49, Thomas Weber wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 01:03:05PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: >> Is the octave-core file useful? > The default answer to that question is "no". In fact, I cannot remember > a single case where the octave-core file was of use. It's been renamed to

Bug#695551: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

2012-12-12 Thread Thomas Weber
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 01:03:05PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > The interaction with gdb is odd. An error is found, but the octave > command line appears regardless. I think octave catches the error, > but doesn't panic inside gdb. So no backtrace is available. The gdb > behaviour is: > $ gdb oct

Bug#695551: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: Bug#695551: Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

2012-12-11 Thread Mike Miller
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Drew Parsons wrote: > > I've got the full build log now. It just confirms that hdf5 was not > found and therefore not built against: > > checking hdf5.h usability... no > checking hdf5.h presence... no > checking for hdf5.h... no > configure: WARNING: HDF5 library

Bug#695551: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

2012-12-11 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 18:41 -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > > Can you verify that your locally built package, the one that does not > panic, did indeed link in libhdf5-openmpi-7? E.g.: I've got the full build log now. It just confirms that hdf5 was not found and therefore not built against: checkin

Bug#695551: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

2012-12-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 18:41 -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Drew Parsons wrote: > > I presume this libhdf5 dependency is the cause of the bug, which means > > you should be able to reproduce it by replacing libhdf5-7 with > > libhdf5-openmpi-7. > > Not here, I am unabl

Bug#695551: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

2012-12-10 Thread Mike Miller
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Drew Parsons wrote: > I presume this libhdf5 dependency is the cause of the bug, which means > you should be able to reproduce it by replacing libhdf5-7 with > libhdf5-openmpi-7. Not here, I am unable to reproduce on amd64 with libhdf5-openmpi-7 installed and libhd

Bug#695551: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

2012-12-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 06:05 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > > I cannot reproduce this bug on my amd64 testing system. We need more > information on your problem. I've got a positive result from a local rebuild. The clean rebuild using pbuilder gave the same segfault. A local build however

Bug#695551: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

2012-12-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 08:45 +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > > A few more questions: > > - what is your currently selected BLAS implementation? (display it with > update-alternatives --display libblas.so.3). If it is > not /usr/lib/libblas/libblas.so.3, please try again with that one > selected

Bug#695551: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

2012-12-09 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Control: severity -1 important [downgrading the severity because seems to affect only the reporter, so does not make the package useless for most people] Hi, Le lundi 10 décembre 2012 à 13:03 +1100, Drew Parsons a écrit : > Package: octave > Version: 3.6.2-5 > Severity: grave > Justification: re

Bug#695551: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

2012-12-09 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 06:05 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > > I cannot reproduce this bug on my amd64 testing system. We need more > information on your problem. As a first step, could you please check > Bug#695434? In regards to Bug#695434, I do have java problems at the moment, the bug i

Bug#695551: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

2012-12-09 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
package octave tags 695551 unreproducible moreinfo stop * Drew Parsons [2012-12-10 13:03]: Package: octave Version: 3.6.2-5 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable octave has just started failing to start, with the error message: $ octave -q panic: Segmentation fault -

Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

2012-12-09 Thread Drew Parsons
Package: octave Version: 3.6.2-5 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable octave has just started failing to start, with the error message: $ octave -q panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself... attempting to save variables to `octave-core'... save to `octave-core' complete Se