Re: octave won't start: panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...

[Quentin Spencer]

address@hidden wrote:

> Hello,
> I have a problem starting Octave 2.1.72. When starting I get the following
> message:
>
> panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> save to `octave-core' complete
> Segmentation fault
>
> I used the ./configure --enable-shared option for configuration. 
> Before that
> I installed Octave whithout this option and it worked. I use SuSE 
> Linux 9.0.
>
> Regards
> Matthias 


That's not very much information, but in my experience this kind of 
thing tends to happen when you are linking to incompatible libraries. I 
would suggest the following:
1. Make sure you don't have any other versions of octave installed.
2. Look at the output of "ldd `which octave`" to see if octave is trying 
to load the wrong shared libraries.
3. Try running octave using gdb to learn more exactly where the failure 
happens.

-Quentin



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