[gentoo-science] Can't Start Ocatave

[Andrew Randles]

I have run into a problem with octave.  After doing a series of updates and reconfigures I have run into a problem.  When I try to start octave I end up with this output

GNU Octave, version 2.1.69 (i686-pc-linux-gnu).
Copyright (C) 2005 John W. Eaton.
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panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::length_error'
  what():  basic_string::_S_create
panic: attempted clean up apparently failed -- aborting...
Aborted

I am not sure what other info is needed.  The ouptut form emerge --info is also included.

Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2 , 2.6.13-gentoo-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:   1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig candy distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp http://gentoo.gg3.net/ ftp://gg3.net/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GENTOO"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/trunk"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aac acpi acpi4linux alsa amd anthy avi bash-completion beepmp bigger-fonts bitmap-fonts bluetooth bmp bootspla c canna cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom cjk cpudetection crypt css cups dropadow dvd encode examples fftw firefox fortran freewnn gif ginac gs gtk gtk2 hdf5 imagemagick imap imlib irmc java jpeg latex mmx mmx2 mmxext mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mpi mplayer network nls nomac nptl oav ogg oggvorbis opengl pcmcia pdf perl png python qhull quicktime radeon real samba screenshot sdl spell sse sse2 ssl stream svg svga tcltk tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts unicode usb v4l vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf xscreensaver xv xvid zlib video_cards_radeon userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

Thanks for your help,
Andrew