>The previous instruction crashes Octave. Going to report this on the >bug list.
More info. This depends on package loading. It happens for the "ad" package and for the "communications" package, but not with "conbinatorics", "audio", "bim" or "bioinfo". This is a log: $ octave --norc GNU Octave, version 3.2.4 Copyright (C) 2009 John W. Eaton and others. This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For details, type `warranty'. Octave was configured for "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu". Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org. Please contribute if you find this software useful. For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html Report bugs to <[email protected]> (but first, please read http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report). For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'. octave:1> pkg global_list /usr/share/octave/packages/3.2/octave_packages; octave:2> pkg prefix /usr/share/octave/packages/3.2 /usr/lib/octave/packages/3.2; octave:3> pkg load communications warning: mark_as_command is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave octave:4> pkg describe communications --- Package name: communications Version: 1.0.10 Short description: Digital Communications, Error Correcting Codes (Channel Code), Source Code functions, Modulation and Galois Fields Status: Loaded octave:5> rand;sum(rand("state",1)); panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself... attempting to save variables to `octave-core'... save to `octave-core' complete Segmentation fault (core dumped) -- Francesco Potortì (ricercatore) Voice: +39 050 315 3058 (op.2111) ISTI - Area della ricerca CNR Fax: +39 050 315 2040 via G. Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa Email: [email protected] (entrance 20, 1st floor, room C71) Web: http://fly.isti.cnr.it/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
