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bug #55857: Octave crashing on startup with fatal signal

Submitter:  Vikash Balsubramanian <vikigenius>
Submitted:  Thu 07 Mar 2019 10:00:56 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Configuration and Build System Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Segfault, Bus Error, etc.
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * 4.4.1 Operating System:  * GNU/Linux
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Sat 09 Mar 2019 01:19:24 AM UTC, comment #3: 

It's not worth your time to debug 4.4.1.  That release is no longer supported.  As long as the current stable release (5.1.0) is working for you we can close this report.

Rik <rik5>
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Thu 07 Mar 2019 11:54:47 PM UTC, comment #2: 

As suggested by Mike the problem no longer occurs in the latest stable version 5.1.0. Will try to debug the issue in 4.4.1 a bit later, somewhat busy right now.

Vikash Balsubramanian <vikigenius>
Thu 07 Mar 2019 10:14:00 PM UTC, comment #1: 

The debug log you attached isn't really useful for this kind of problem. It would be better to get a gdb stack trace, can you provide this?

Even better would be to update to Octave 5.1.0 and see if the problem persists, is that option easily available to you? I'm not familiar with the Void distribution, I don't know if it's binary or source based or if you built Octave yourself, but 5.1.0 is the latest stable release.

Even if you can't upgrade, at the very least please try to run octave with gdb and attach a gdb stack trace with debug symbols.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Group Member
Thu 07 Mar 2019 10:00:56 PM UTC, original submission:  

I just installed Octave 4.4.1 on my linux machine kernel 4.19.27_1, distribution void-linux.

Everytime i try to start the octave interpreter, it crashes with a fatal signal


terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range'
  what():  basic_string::substr: __pos (which is 16) > this->size() (which is 15)
fatal: caught signal Aborted -- stopping myself...
[1]    2722 abort      octave


This crash does not happen, when i start interpreter with --no-init-path option.

I am also including debug log of the crash.

Vikash Balsubramanian <vikigenius>

 

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file #46456:  octave_debug.log added by vikigenius (493KiB - text/x-log)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2019-03-09 rik5 StatusNeed Info Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2019-03-07 mtmiller StatusNone Need Info
    2019-03-07 vikigenius Attached File- Added octave_debug.log, #46456

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