Thanks for the extra information. I know very little about Radeon
graphics configurations, but this looks to me suspiciously like a poorly
configured Radeon setup that does not fully support OpenGL graphics.
Having a working OpenGL configuration is a prerequisite for using the
FLTK plotting backend. There is an open upstream bug report about
gracefully reporting an error under such conditions, so this is a known
problem.

It appears to me that we can pursue this crash from one of two angles:
1. Continue treating this as a bug that Octave should not crash with a 
segmentation fault when sufficient OpenGL support is lacking. The outcome of a 
potential fix for this bug would simply be an error message saying that you are 
unable to use FLTK.
2. Convert this to a support question and we address your system configuration 
so you can get OpenGL and FLTK plots working with your Radeon video card.

Which of these look most appropriate to you?

Of course if you *do* know about Radeon graphics configuration and you
can prove that your system *is* correctly configured for full OpenGL
support, and Octave still crashes using FLTK, then something else is
going on here.

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