Several crash cases for build with recent sources

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Alexander Mamonov <mamonov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here are several crashing instances on my build of Octave from recent
> sources on Windows with MinGW:
>
> octave:1> backend('fltk');
> octave:2> clear all;
> octave:3> panic: Segmentation violation -- stopping myself...
> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> save to `octave-core' complete
> warning: figs is no longer a built-in variable; please read the NEWS
> file or type `news' for details
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> octave:1> eigs(1)
> error: eigs: Too many eigenvalues to extract (k >= n).
>      Use 'eig(full(A))' instead
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'octave_execution_exception'
>
> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
> Please contact the application's support team for more information.
> panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> save to `octave-core' complete
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> octave:1> svds(1)
> error: eigs: error -3 in dsaupd
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'octave_execution_exception'
>
> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
> Please contact the application's support team for more information.
> panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> save to `octave-core' complete
> error: stdin is not a tty!
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Cases 2 and 3 might be platform-dependent issues. Case 1 looks very
> much like Octave 3.0.x clear all
> crash that happens for certain octave-forge packages.
>

I can confirm 2 and 3 generate error messages and I'm working on a
patch that improves things a bit (in particular the dsaupd). However,
I see no core dumps.



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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
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Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
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