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bug #49974: startup reports error about "pkg load auto"

Submitted by:  None
Submitted on:  Mon 02 Jan 2017 11:38:02 PM UTC  
 
Category: Configuration and Build SystemSeverity: 2 - Minor
Priority: 3 - LowItem Group: Installation Failure
Status: InvalidAssigned to: None
Originator Name: Originator Email: -unavailable-
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 4.2.0
Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Tue 03 Jan 2017 01:23:20 AM UTC, comment #3:

Sorry, now I see that the config file installed by the Debian package octave-common needs to be updated.

Please report this to the Debian packaging team using "reportbug octave-common". This is not an Octave bug, the config file provided in Octave's distribution is correct.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Project Administrator
Tue 03 Jan 2017 12:58:58 AM UTC, comment #2:

This looks like a Debian system configuration or packaging issue, not a bug in Octave.

Octave 4.2 comes with an octaverc file that no longer contains the command that you are referencing. The Debian package installs this file as a conffile so you can make local modifications to it.

Debian packages typically allow you to keep or replace config files. Can you confirm whether the files /etc/octave.conf, /etc/octave.conf.dpkg-old, or /etc/octave.conf.dpkg-new exist? If you properly install or merge the new conffile provided by the Debian package, you should not get this error.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Project Administrator
Tue 03 Jan 2017 12:52:53 AM UTC, comment #1:

Thank you for the report. I assume Mike knows a lot more, but in Octave the corresponding line has already been removed [1]. Just the octave source package at Debian [2] needs to be updated as well.

[1]: http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/cf227735d5fd
[2]: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-octave/octave.git/tree/debian/octave.conf?id=490db033670982303deee85419f1150ffefa8307

Kai Torben Ohlhus <siko1056>
Project Member
Mon 02 Jan 2017 11:38:02 PM UTC, original submission:

The message at startup of octave or octave-cli :
although this problem do not affect the normal usage.

Since autoload is no longer supported in Octave 4.2 ,
in file /usr/share/octave/4.2.0/m/startup/octaverc the line
should be removed or changed ?

The octave is installed from debian experimental (rc-buggy) :
ii liboctave4:amd64 4.2.0-1 amd64
ii octave 4.2.0-1 amd64
ii octave-common 4.2.0-1 all

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Tue 03 Jan 2017 01:23:20 AM UTCmtmillerStatusNeed Info=>Invalid
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
    Tue 03 Jan 2017 01:00:04 AM UTCmtmillerCategoryOctave Function=>Configuration and Build System
      Severity3 - Normal=>2 - Minor
      Priority5 - Normal=>3 - Low
      Item GroupNone=>Installation Failure
    Tue 03 Jan 2017 12:58:58 AM UTCmtmillerCategoryConfiguration and Build System=>Octave Function
      Severity2 - Minor=>3 - Normal
      Priority3 - Low=>5 - Normal
      Item GroupInstallation Failure=>None
      SummaryDebian: startup reports error about "pkg load auto"=>startup reports error about "pkg load auto"
    Tue 03 Jan 2017 12:52:53 AM UTCsiko1056CategoryOctave Function=>Configuration and Build System
      Severity3 - Normal=>2 - Minor
      Priority5 - Normal=>3 - Low
      Item GroupNone=>Installation Failure
      StatusNone=>Need Info
      Summarystartup reports error about "pkg load auto"=>Debian: startup reports error about "pkg load auto"
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