[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44823] new seg fault while plotting

[Michael Godfrey]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44823>

                 Summary: new seg fault while plotting
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: godfrey
            Submitted on: Mon 13 Apr 2015 02:37:16 AM GMT
                Category: Plotting
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Crash
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Godfrey
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.0.0-rc3
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

This worked without problem until RC3:

>> plot_demods
title2 = Date: 12-Apr-2015.  airdata_1946-60_extr_1961: a =  1.57, -0.70,  b =
0.00, 0.07, 0.06, nl = 11, nconv = 1.
panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to 'octave-workspace'...
save to 'octave-workspace' complete
Error: /syntaxerror in -file-
Operand stack:
   STnoshfill
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--  
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--  
--nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1951   1   3   %oparray_pop  
1950   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   1934   1   3   %oparray_pop  
1820   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2  
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1187/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:82/200(L)--  
--dict:37/64(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: Not a directory
GPL Ghostscript 9.15: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


I will try to learn more about this, but at this late stage
in the release cylce it may be a good choice to revert to rc2
or at least back out the plotting related changes.






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