Bug 458733

Summary: octave fails to save data, swig_ref error
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Rector <drector>
Component: octaveAssignee: Rakesh Pandit <rpandit>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description David Rector 2008-08-12 00:27:42 UTC
Description of problem:

With octave version 3.0.1 and octave-forge and octave-devel loaded, octave always fails with the 'save' command.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
octave 3.0.1

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install octave*
2. start octave
3. save test.dat
  
Actual results:
[dave@hfo3 ~]# octave
GNU Octave, version 3.0.1
Copyright (C) 2008 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu".

Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html

Report bugs to <bug> (but first, please read
http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).

For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'.

octave:1> save test.dat
error: octave_base_value::save_ascii(): wrong type argument `swig_ref'
octave:1> 


Expected results:
data should save to file

Additional info:

This problem is new to octave 3.0.1

I never had any problem with octave 2.9

Thanks!

Dave Rector
*:^)

Comment 1 Rakesh Pandit 2008-10-23 09:56:40 UTC
may you try to reproduce with latest 3.0.2 and check ?

Comment 2 Rakesh Pandit 2008-10-29 18:49:08 UTC
ping ?

Comment 3 David Rector 2008-10-30 04:01:09 UTC
Sorry,

I can't find an rpm for 3.0.2, and I am having trouble compiling octave.

Do you have a link to an rpm for version 3.0.2?

Thanks!

Dave Rector
*:^)

Comment 4 David Rector 2008-10-30 04:32:11 UTC
OK,

I just found version 3.0.2 in the testing directory.

Same behavior:

[dave@quick Desktop]# octave
GNU Octave, version 3.0.2
Copyright (C) 2008 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "i386-redhat-linux-gnu".

Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html

Report bugs to <bug> (but first, please read
http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).

For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'.

octave:1> x=1:1000;
octave:2> save -binary test.dat
error: octave_base_value::save_binary(): wrong type argument `swig_ref'
octave:2>

Comment 5 David Rector 2008-10-30 04:39:16 UTC
I am very curious now... Does any one else see this same behavior? Why would it only be me. I perform a very standard installation of Fedora... Have done so on many dozens of different machines with the same result.

Dave Rector
*:^)

Comment 6 Rakesh Pandit 2008-10-30 06:27:18 UTC
I will look into it this weekend.
Thanks,

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