qtoctave crashed with SIGSEGV in MainWindow::setWindowsLayout()

[Achilles12]

i tried to reset the windows in Octave. However the whole application closed and reported a error.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: qtoctave 0.10.1-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 13 20:49:51 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/qtoctave
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
ProcCmdline: qtoctave
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x45b6e0 <_ZN10MainWindow16setWindowsLayoutEP7QAction+6400>: mov (%rax),%rcx
 PC (0x0045b6e0) ok
 source "(%rax)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rcx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: qtoctave
StacktraceTop:
 MainWindow::setWindowsLayout(QAction*) ()
 MainWindow::qt_metacall(QMetaObject::Call, int, void**) ()
 QMetaObject::activate(QObject*, QMetaObject const*, int, void**) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
 QMenu::triggered(QAction*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4
Title: qtoctave crashed with SIGSEGV in MainWindow::setWindowsLayout()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-06 (7 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 MainWindow::setWindowsLayout(QAction*) ()
 MainWindow::qt_metacall(QMetaObject::Call, int, void**) ()
 QMetaObject::activate (sender=0x22fb480, m=<optimized out>, local_signal_index=<optimized out>, argv=0x7fff1c5e2bc0) at kernel/qobject.cpp:3566
 QMenu::triggered (this=<optimized out>, _t1=0x22ced50) at .moc/release-shared/moc_qmenu.cpp:178
 QMenuPrivate::activateCausedStack (this=0x24d2000, causedStack=..., action=0x22ced50, action_e=QAction::Trigger, self=<optimized out>) at widgets/qmenu.cpp:1038

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mike Miller (mtmiller)]

I can confirm this crash in the current stable version of Ubuntu (15.04). However, qtoctave is marked as deprecated because it hasn't been maintained for a long time, and Octave now includes its own native GUI. Anyone affected by this bug would be better off using the current stable version of Octave with its own GUI instead of qtoctave.

[Mike Miller (mtmiller)]

Now that qtoctave has been removed, and is not in the latest 16.04 LTS release, I'm going to call this unfixable and invalid. Upstream for qtoctave is nonexistent, the project is no longer supported in Ubuntu, there's no point in leaving this open to be fixed in old LTS versions only.