octave segfaults at "clear -all"

[Thomas Müller]

Hello,

John W. Eaton schrieb:
> On  1-Jun-2008, Thomas Müller wrote:
> 
> | Bug report for Octave 3.0.1 configured for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
> | 
> | Description:
> | -----------
> | octave segfaults when evaluating "clear -all"
> | 
> | $ octave -q --eval "clear -all"
> | panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
> | attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> | save to `octave-core' complete
> | Segmentation fault
> 
> I'm unable to duplicate this problem.  Does the problem occur if you
> also use the --norc option for Octave?
Nope, it doesn't.

However, if I use "pkg load" to manually load package ftp or ann
"clear all" crashes again.

Apparently it's the same problem that's discussed here:
http://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2008-May/006094.html


Regards,
Thomas