Re: Octave crashing

[Matthias Brennwald]

On Nov 18, 2009, at 8:13 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 18-Nov-2009, Matthias Brennwald wrote:
>
> | I upgraded to Octave 3.2.3. If I try to start Octave, the following
> | happens:
> |
> | --------------
> | wut-brennwald:matGSOD brennmat$ octave
> | GNU Octave, version 3.2.3
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> |
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> |
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> |
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> |
> | Report bugs to <address@hidden> (but first, please read
> | http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful  
> report).
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> |
> | panic: impossible state reached in file `load-path.cc' at line 657
> | panic: Abort trap -- stopping myself...
> | attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> | save to `octave-core' complete
> | Abort trap
> | --------------
> |
> | This is on an Intel-Mac with Mac OS X 10.5. Octave was installed and
> | compiled through MacPorts. Any ideas what might be wrong and what  
> to do?
>
> Does this happen regardless of which directory you are in when you
> start Octave?

As a matter of fact, it does not happen anymore... I have no idea why  
the problem is gone now. As far as I can tell I did not change  
anything. I tried running from different directories, but could not  
reproduce the error.

> Is there a PKG_ADD or .octaverc file in the directory where you are
> starting Octave?  If so, what is in those files?

Yes, I do have an .octaverc file in my home directory. Here it is:

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%%%% warning on Octave:matlab-incompatible % warn if using code that
%%%% won't work with Matlab (it won't catch everything, though).
addpath ('~/Matlab/')
addpath ('~/Matlab/mcompartments/code')
addpath ('~/Matlab/mcompartments/examples/example1')
addpath ('~/Matlab/mcompartments/examples/example2')
addpath ('~/Matlab/mcompartments/examples/example3')
addpath ('~/Matlab/mataa/mataa_tools/')
addpath ('~/Matlab/mataa/mataa_scripts/')
addpath ('~/Matlab/matchromat/')
addpath ('~/Matlab/matchromat/machines/')
addpath ('~/Matlab/matchromat/machines/ANTRAWA/')
addpath ('~/Matlab/cal_bottles/')
addpath ('~/Matlab/matGSOD/');
addpath ('~/Matlab/m_map/');
addpath ('~/Matlab/m_map/private/');
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> Also, it's best to report bugs to the address@hidden list.

Yes, sure, but I am not sure it this really is a bug in Octave (it  
might just as well be me or some other software package on the machine).

Matthias


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