Re: Segmentation fault- clear -all

[Bill Denney]

Charles Coronella wrote:
> I'm experiencing some very frustrating problems with Octave. Its
> behavior seems to be quite erratic. Two important symptoms:
>
> 1) Issuing "clear -all" will cause a segmentation fault. Every time.
> Here's the message I see:
> panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> save to `octave-core' complete
>
>   
> 2) Changes made to .m files are occasionally used. Occasionally not.
> No kidding. I can change a line in an .m file, and Octave keeps
> running the previous version of that .m file. Restarting Octave works,
> but do I need to restart the program every time I make an edit? That
> is not too efficient.
>
> I'd guess there's an installation error, so here's what I think are
> the important data: Octave, version 3.0.3, configured for
> i686-pc-msdosmsvc. My computer runs Windows XP.
Hi Charles,

This is a known bug that I think has been fixed.  Please see
http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2009-February/007984.html

Thanks,

Bill