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[J.Sigbrandt]

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Subject: Octave segmentation fault

Bug report for Octave 1.93 configured for i486-unknown-linux

Description:
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Octave segfaults before reaching the octave prompt.  Re-creating
the file ~/.octave_hist seems to solve the problem and octave
gets a little further.  However:

analogue:~>octave
Octave, version 1.93 (i486-unknown-linux).
Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.

octave:1> history
Segmentation fault
analogue:~>ls -las ~/.octave_hist
   1 -rw-r--r--   1 jay      jay            60 Dec  5 17:06 
/home/jay/.octave_hist
analogue:~>cat ~/.octave_hist
exit
exit
exit
exit
exit
exit
exit
exit
exit
exit
exit                     

Here is another example session:

octave:1> exit
analogue:~>octave
Octave, version 1.93 (i486-unknown-linux).
Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.

octave:1> who
octave:2> who
octave:3> 1
ans = 1
octave:4> 2
ans = 2
octave:5> 2*3
Segmentation fault
analogue:~>cat .octave_hist
exit                           

Not much is working :(

Repeat-By:
---------

I can't get octave to do anything :(
But am willing to test out anybody's ideas ...

Fix:
---

:?


Configuration (please do not edit this section):
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uname output:     Linux analogue 2.0.26 #1 Mon Nov 25 04:43:22 GMT 1996 i486
configure opts:   --enable-shared --enable-lite-kernel
Fortran compiler: g77
FFLAGS:           -O
F2C:              
F2CFLAGS:         
FLIBS:            -lf2c -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2 -lgcc
CPPFLAGS:         
INCFLAGS:         -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/octave-1.93
C compiler:       gcc, version 2.7.2
CFLAGS:           -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -O2
CPICFLAG:         -fPIC
C++ compiler:     c++, version 2.7.2
CXXFLAGS:         -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -fno-implicit-templates -mieee-fp -O2
CXXPICFLAG:       -fPIC
LDFLAGS:          
LIBFLAGS:         -L/usr/local/lib
RLD_FLAG:         -Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker /usr/local/lib
CXXLIBS:          -lstdc++ -lm -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2 -lstdc++ -lm 
-lgcc -lc -lgcc
TERMLIBS:         -lncurses
LIBS:             
LEXLIB:           
LIBPLPLOT:        
LIBDLFCN:         
DEFS:

  -DOCTAVE_SOURCE=1 -DSEPCHAR=':' -DSEPCHAR_STR=":"
  -DUSE_GNU_INFO=1 -DUSE_READLINE=1 -DOCTAVE_LITE=1 -DSIZEOF_SHORT=2
  -DSIZEOF_INT=4 -DSIZEOF_LONG=4 -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H=1 -DHAVE_ALLOCA=1
  -DF77_APPEND_UNDERSCORE=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_DIRENT_H=1
  -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H=1 -DHAVE_ASSERT_H=1
  -DHAVE_CURSES_H=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL_H=1 -DHAVE_FLOAT_H=1 -DHAVE_GRP_H=1
  -DHAVE_LIMITS_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_NAN_H=1 -DHAVE_NCURSES_H=1
  -DHAVE_PWD_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_PARAM_H=1
  -DHAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H=1
  -DHAVE_SYS_TIMES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_UTSNAME_H=1
  -DHAVE_TERMCAP_H=1 -DHAVE_TERMIO_H=1 -DHAVE_TERMIOS_H=1
  -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_VARARGS_H=1 -DNPSOL_MISSING=1 -DQPSOL_MISSING=1
  -DFSQP_MISSING=1 -DHAVE_ATEXIT=1 -DHAVE_BCOPY=1 -DHAVE_BZERO=1
  -DHAVE_DUP2=1 -DHAVE_ENDGRENT=1 -DHAVE_ENDPWENT=1 -DHAVE_EXECVP=1
  -DHAVE_FCNTL=1 -DHAVE_FORK=1 -DHAVE_GETCWD=1 -DHAVE_GETEGID=1
  -DHAVE_GETEUID=1 -DHAVE_GETGID=1 -DHAVE_GETGRENT=1 -DHAVE_GETGRGID=1
  -DHAVE_GETGRNAM=1 -DHAVE_GETHOSTNAME=1 -DHAVE_GETPGRP=1 -DHAVE_GETPID=1
  -DHAVE_GETPPID=1 -DHAVE_GETPWENT=1 -DHAVE_GETPWNAM=1 -DHAVE_GETPWUID=1
  -DHAVE_GETUID=1 -DHAVE_LSTAT=1 -DHAVE_MEMMOVE=1 -DHAVE_MKDIR=1
  -DHAVE_MKFIFO=1 -DHAVE_ON_EXIT=1 -DHAVE_PIPE=1 -DHAVE_PUTENV=1
  -DHAVE_RENAME=1 -DHAVE_RINDEX=1 -DHAVE_RMDIR=1 -DHAVE_SETGRENT=1
  -DHAVE_SETPWENT=1 -DHAVE_SETVBUF=1 -DHAVE_SIGACTION=1 -DHAVE_SIGPENDING=1
  -DHAVE_SIGPROCMASK=1 -DHAVE_SIGSUSPEND=1 -DHAVE_STAT=1 -DHAVE_STRCASECMP=1
  -DHAVE_STRDUP=1 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE_STRNCASECMP=1 -DHAVE_TEMPNAM=1
  -DHAVE_UMASK=1 -DHAVE_UNLINK=1 -DHAVE_VFPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF=1
  -DHAVE_WAITPID=1 -DHAVE_LIBDL=1 -DHAVE_DLOPEN=1 -DHAVE_DLSYM=1
  -DHAVE_DLERROR=1 -DHAVE_DLCLOSE=1 -DWITH_DL=1 -DWITH_DYNAMIC_LINKING=1
  -DHAVE_LIBM=1 -DHAVE_FINITE=1 -DHAVE_ISNAN=1 -DHAVE_ISINF=1
  -DHAVE_ACOSH=1 -DHAVE_ASINH=1 -DHAVE_ATANH=1 -DHAVE_ERF=1 -DHAVE_ERFC=1
  -DHAVE_ST_BLKSIZE=1 -DHAVE_ST_BLOCKS=1 -DHAVE_ST_RDEV=1 -DHAVE_TZNAME=1
  -DHAVE_GR_PASSWD=1 -DRETSIGTYPE=void -DSYS_SIGLIST_DECLARED=1
  -DHAVE_SYS_SIGLIST=1 -DHAVE_POSIX_SIGNALS=1 -DHAVE_GETRUSAGE=1
  -DHAVE_TIMES=1