Bug 701651 - textread causes octave to crash
Summary: textread causes octave to crash
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: octave
Version: 14
Hardware: i686
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Rakesh Pandit
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: abrt_hash:7fd5710c27d2879ffcd6379a028...
: 652927 696111 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-05-03 13:36 UTC by Henry Leinhos
Modified: 2012-06-14 12:52 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-06-14 12:52:46 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
File: backtrace (45.36 KB, text/plain)
2011-05-03 13:36 UTC, Henry Leinhos
no flags Details

Description Henry Leinhos 2011-05-03 13:36:34 UTC
abrt version: 1.1.18
architecture: i686
Attached file: backtrace, 46450 bytes
cmdline: octave --traditional
component: octave
Attached file: coredump, 59662336 bytes
crash_function: __libc_message
executable: /usr/bin/octave-3.2.4
kernel: 2.6.35.12-90.fc14.i686.PAE
package: octave-6:3.2.4-4.fc14
rating: 4
reason: Process /usr/bin/octave-3.2.4 was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)
release: Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)
time: 1304427264
uid: 500

How to reproduce
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1. in octave run textread on the following space-delimited file (test.dat)

1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12

2. in octave
$ [a b c d] = textread('test.dat','%d %d %d %d')


3. crash

This used to work on my fedora 12 install

Comment 1 Henry Leinhos 2011-05-03 13:36:37 UTC
Created attachment 496525 [details]
File: backtrace

Comment 2 Mark Locascio 2011-06-27 18:44:53 UTC
Package: octave-6:3.2.4-4.fc14
Architecture: x86_64
OS Release: Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)


How to reproduce
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1. Start Octave
2. x=syms('x')

This causes a crash. It should either work or throw an error.

Comment
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$ rpm -q octave octave-forge
octave-3.2.4-4.fc14.x86_64
octave-forge-20090607-17.fc14.x86_64

Comment 3 David Radice 2011-07-26 11:57:31 UTC
Package: octave-6:3.2.4-4.fc14
Architecture: x86_64
OS Release: Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)


How to reproduce
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1. Launch Octave in a terminal
2. Try the "symbols" command
3.

Comment 4 abrt-bot 2012-03-20 17:07:39 UTC
*** Bug 652927 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 abrt-bot 2012-03-20 17:07:50 UTC
*** Bug 696111 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Henry Leinhos 2012-06-14 12:35:53 UTC
textread seems to be working in octave version 3.4.3 in Fedora 16 (not sure about syms(), but that seems to be separate bug...

Comment 7 Susi Lehtola 2012-06-14 12:52:46 UTC
Fedora 14 has EOLd in December 2011. Upgrade to a supported version.


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