--traditional switch problems

[Henry A. Leinhos]

Hi all,

I have two fedora core boxes (4 and 5), both with octave 2.9.6 (the
package version is octave-2.9.6-1.fc4 for the FC4 box).

I had octave running fine a few weeks ago, then got an update from
Redhat, and now if I try to run octave with the --traditional switch I
get the following error message (on both boxes), and my path is blank:

address@hidden ~]$ octave --traditional
GNU Octave, version 2.9.6 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu).
Copyright (C) 2006 John W. Eaton.
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'.

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

error: feval: the symbol `warn_function_name_clash' is not valid as a
function
error: near line 11 of file `/usr/share/octave/2.9.6/m/startup/octaverc'
>>


Before I talk to the Fedora forums, I wanted to check to see if there
was something obvious here that I was missing.

Thanks,
Henry