Public bug reported:
Before my update to Ubuntu 18.04 I was using Octave under 16.04. I am
not a frequent Octave user (once every few months). I updated to 18.04
a couple of months ago and tried running octave today only to find that
it would not start from my command line. Instead, I see:
$ octave
octave exited with signal 6
A quick internet search suggested a couple of options but nothing that
is obviously this problem. Filing an Ubuntu bug as it happened on
Ubuntu and it might have been brought about by the upgrade between LTS
releases.
+bug 1156575 was suggested as a possible duplicate but that is quite old
and not what I think I am seeing.
Somewhere on a search result, it was suggested I run an strace with
octave. I have attached the output of `$ strace octave > ~/octave-
strace.log 2>&1` as octave-strace.log
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: octave 4.2.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-33.36-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Sep 7 10:25:39 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-11-16 (294 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
SourcePackage: octave
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-07-27 (41 days ago)
** Affects: octave (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic
** Attachment added: "Strace of Octave failing to start"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1791267/+attachment/5185964/+files/octave-strace.log
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Octave exited with signal 6 On Startup
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