Re: seg fault during save quit restart and load sequence

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Robert Patterson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > I want to perform some calculations and save my octave state so I can
>> > come back and analyse my data later.  As a very simple test I tried
>> >
>> > octave:1> v = 1:5;
>> > octave:2> save -text test.txt
>> > octave:3> quit
>> >
>> > bash> octave
>> > octave:1> load -text test.txt
>> >
>> > At which point I get a segfault.  A fuller copy of the two octave
>> > sessions are shown below.  My problem seems similar to the following
>> > nabble post, to which I did not find any follow up.
>> > http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Seg-fault-crash-when-loading-a-saved-va
>> > riable-file-tt1670463.html#none
>> >
>> > [snip]
>>
>> I made the same test with 3.2.4 on linux x86_64 and get no segfault, is it an
>> option for you to update to 3.2.4 (which is the latest stable)?
>
> Further testing shows that the problem does not occur with octave 3.0.3
> (on Fedora 10 x86_64) or 3.2.4 (local build on Fedora 12 x86_64), but I
> can still reproduce the problem with 3.2.3 (on Fedora 12 x86_64).
> Something odd seems to have happened with 3.2.3.
>
> Robert
>

The issue appears to be with octave-forge.
I can reproduce this problem with 3.2.4 and octave-forge-20090607-15.fc12.x86_64
There is no problem if I un-install octave-forge

(this is on x86_64 Fedora 12)

Sincerely,

Dmitri