From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Sep 19 12:49:09 1997
Subject: Re: Bug#13153: octave: segs durings start-up
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: ioannis at flinet dot com
Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at rosebud dot sps dot queensu dot ca>     13153@bugs.debian.org,         bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 12:48:08 -0500

On 18-Sep-1997, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at rosebud dot sps dot queensu dot ca> wrote:

|  > Package: octave
|  > Version: 2.0.9-1
|  > 
|  > ~ 196 % octave
|  > Segmentation fault
|  > 
|  > ~ 197 % dpkg -l octav\*
|  > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
|  > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|  > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
|  > ||/ Name            Version        Description
|  > +++-===============-==============-============================================
|  > ii  octave          2.0.9-1        The GNU Octave language for numerical comput
|  > pn  octave-ci       <none>         (no description available)
|  > un  octave-doc      <none>         (no description available)
|  > ii  octave-staticli 2.0.9-1        Static libraries for the GNU Octave language
|  > 
|  > 
|  > 
|  > 
|  > 
|  > -- System Information
|  > Debian Release: 1.3
|  > Kernel Version: Linux ohiox 2.0.29 #1 Wed Jun 4 18:35:21 EDT 1997 i486 unknown
|  > 
|  > Versions of the packages octave depends on:
|  > ldso	Version: 1.9.6-2
|  > libc5	Version: 5.4.33-5
|  > libg++27	Version: 2.7.2.1-3
|  > ncurses3.0	Version: 1.9.9e-2
|  > less	Version: 321-1
|  > 
|  > --- Begin /etc/octave.conf (modified conffile)
|  > LOADPATH = [ ":/usr/local/share/octave/site-m//" ];
|  > 
|  > --- End /etc/octave.conf

Probably this is due to having incorrect versions of the libraries
installed.  Do you really have the versions that are listed above as
the ones that Octave depends on?

jwe