Thank you! Scilab starts normally on sid with linux-image 4.11.6-1.
dpkg -S /boot/vmlinuz-4.11.0-1-686-pae linux-image-4.11.0-1-686-pae: /boot/vmlinuz-4.11.0-1-686-pae $ apt-cache policy linux-image-4.11.0-1-686-pae linux-image-4.11.0-1-686-pae: Installed: 4.11.6-1 Candidate: 4.11.6-1 Version table: *** 4.11.6-1 500 500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status I hope you backport this fix to all supported Debian versions.