clear - Segmentation fault

[Zbigniew Komarnicki]

Is this normal or it is only on Debian specific?

Acording to the help system:
   The following options are available in both long and short form
    `-all, -a'
          Clears all local and global user-defined variables and all
          functions from the symbol table.

    `-exclusive, -x'
          Clears the variables that don't match the following pattern.

    `-functions, -f'
          Clears the function names and the built-in symbols names.

    `-global, -g'
          Clears the global symbol names.

    `-variables, -v'
          Clears the local variable names.


octave:1> clear -all
panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
Segmentation fault

octave:1> clear -a
panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
Segmentation fault

octave:1> clear all
panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
Segmentation fault

octave:1> clear -g
octave: ftp_wrap.cpp:864: 
<unnamed>::Swig::rtdir_map&<unnamed>::Swig::get_rtdir_map(): Assertion 
`module' failed.
panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
Aborted


Why this happen? 

I use the following version of octave:
$ octave
GNU Octave, version 3.0.1
Copyright (C) 2008 John W. Eaton and others.
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'.

Octave was configured for "i486-pc-linux-gnu".



Best wishes,
Zbigniew