clear - Segmentation fault

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Zbigniew Komarnicki <cblasius at gmail.com> [2008-09-30 18:04]:

> 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

Do you have the octave-ftp installed ?  See http://bugs.debian.org/490588

-- 
Rafael