panic: Hangup -- stopping myself

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Jul-2002, Heber Farnsworth <address@hidden> wrote:

| I'm having an intermittent problem that I'm trying to track down.  I
| have a program that takes a long time to run and I've been running it a
| lot lately.  Occasionally the program will stop with a message
| 
| panic: Hangup -- stopping myself...
| attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
| save to `octave-core' complete
| 
| What kind of problem leads to this kind of message?  Is it an octave
| problem or a system problem or what?

That message is printed by the signal handler that is installed to
catch SIGHUP, so something must be sending a hangup signal to Octave.

jwe



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