[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #37863] crash when using keyboard and calling octave <file>

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #37863 (project octave):

I believe the cause of the crash is the java Octave Forge package which
installs its own readline event hook. I can reproduce this crash on Debian
using the Debian-built packages but only if I install octave-java and have it
autoloaded. And apparently only if the supplied script is run as


octave min_estimation.m


but it does not crash if I run it as


octave --eval "min_estimation"


Moreover, now that Java has been rolled into the development tree, if I add
"java_init" to my ~/.octaverc, I get the same crash with a dev build of Octave
with no external packages.

Attached a gdb backtrace showing that the segfault is in the readline event
handler.

(file #27042)
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