Binary package hint: octave
Typing 'clear all' in the interactive interpreter in octave, causes it to segfault.
I obviously think that crashing on clearing all is a little extreme. I also have octplot loaded by default, and I do not paginate output. Otherwise, just stock standard.
In the latest Ubuntu Jaunty version (as of Feb 4 09), I have these octave packages installed:
ii octave-ad 1.0.2-1 automatic forward differentiation in Octave
ii octave-audio 1.1.1-2 functions to work with audio files in Octave
ii octave-bioinfo 0.1.0-1 bioinformatic functions for Octave
ii octave-combinatorics 1.0.6-1 combinatorics function for Octave
ii octave-communications 1.0.6-1 communications package from octave-forge
ii octave-control 1.0.6-1 control functions for Octave from Octave-For
ii octave-data-smoothing 1.0.0-1 functions to do data smoothing on noisy data
ii octave-econometrics 1:1.0.6-3 econometrics functions for Octave
ii octave-epstk 2.2-11ubuntu1 GNU Octave encapsulated postscript toolkit
ii octave-financial 0.2.2-1 financial manipulation and plotting function
ii octave-fixed 0.7.6-2 fixed point computation for Octave
ii octave-ftp 1.0-1 Octave binding for ftplib, and MATLAB compat
ii octave-general 1.0.6-1 provide extra general functions for Octave
ii octave-graceplot 1.0.5-2 Plotting function of GNU Octave with Grace
ii octave-gsl 1.0.6-2 GSL binding for Octave
ii octave-ident 1.0.5-1 system identification functions for Octave
ii octave-image 1.0.6-3 image manipulation for Octave
ii octave-informationtheory 0.1.5-1 information theory functions for Octave
ii octave-io 1.0.6-1 input/output data functions for Octave
ii octave-irsa 1.0.5-1 irregular sampling analysis functions for Oc
ii octave-linear-algebra 1.0.5-1 additional linear-algebra functions for Octa
ii octave-miscellaneous 1.0.6-3 miscellaneous tools for Octave
ii octave-missing-functions 1.0.0-1 finds functions that are in Matlab but not i
ii octave-nan 1.0.6-1 handles data with and without missing values
ii octave-nnet 0.1.7-2 feed forward multi-layer neural network func
ii octave-octcdf 1.0.9-2 NetCDF data files interface for Octave
ii octave-octgpr 1.1.3-1 functions to smooth and interpolate scattere
ii octave-odebvp 1.0.4-1 linear ordinary differential equations packa
ii octave-odepkg 0.6.0-1 solve differential equations and initial val
ii octave-optim 1.0.3-3 unconstrained non-linear optimization toolki
ii octave-optiminterp 0.3.1-1 optimal interpolation package for Octave
ii octave-outliers 0.13.7-2 outliers detection function for Octave
ii octave-parallel 1.0.6-1 parallel execution of Octave in clusters of
ii octave-pfstools 1.6.4-2build2 octave bindings for pfstools
ii octave-physicalconstants 0.1.5-1 provide physical constants values in Octave
ii octave-plot 1.0.5-2 additional plotting tools for Octave
ii octave-plplot 5.9.0-8ubuntu1 Octave support for PLplot, a plotting librar
ii octave-signal 1.0.7-1 signal processing functions for Octave
ii octave-sockets 1.0.4-3 communication through Internet sokects in Oc
ii octave-sp 1:2003-9 Semidefinite Programming functions for GNU O
ii octave-specfun 1.0.6-1 special mathematical functions for Octave
ii octave-splines 1.0.5-1 cubic spline functions for Octave
ii octave-statistics 1.0.6-1 additional statistical functions for Octave
ii octave-strings 1.0.5-1 additional string manipulation functions for
ii octave-struct 1.0.5-1 additional structure manipulation functions
ii octave-symbolic 1.0.6-1 symbolic package for Octave
ii octave-time 1.0.7-1 date format manipulation function for Octave
ii octave-tsa 3.10.6-2 time series analysis in Octave
ii octave-vrml 1.0.6-3 VRML functions for Octave
ii octave-zenity 0.5.5-1 simple graphical user interfaces using zenit
ii octave3.0 1:3.0.1-6ubuntu1 GNU Octave language for numerical computatio
ii octave3.0-info 1:3.0.1-6ubuntu1 GNU Info documentation on the GNU Octave lan
Description of problem:
octave segfaults while executing "clear all".
It does not matter if any variables were defined.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
octave-
octave-
atlas-3.
How reproducible:
always
Steps to Reproduce:
just execute octave --eval "clear all"
Actual results:
segmentation fault
Expected results:
no segmentation fault ;)
Additional info:
(gdb) run -q --eval "clear all"
Starting program: /usr/bin/octave -q --eval "clear all"
warning: "/usr/lib/
debug info file has no debug info
warning: "/usr/lib/
debug info file has no debug info
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7f8ddaa76700 (LWP 5636)]
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000032d95b8496 in symbol_
392 { return rep->is_defined (); }
Current language: auto; currently c++