Thank you very much! I missed that thread. It's good to know what the issue is.
Hopefully I can just wait it out -- if not, I know how to reboot with an older kernel. On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 11:09 +0300, Nikolay Strelkov wrote: > Dear Tim! > > As was discussed In the list ( http://mailinglists.scilab.org/Scilab- > users-scilab-gt-Segmentation-fault-td4036624.html ). > > This is not Scilab bug, it's bad attempt to fix CVE-2017-1000364 > security bug in Linux kernel. > Debian 7, 8, 9; Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS are affected (seehttps > ://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1699772). > > The temporary solution is to reboot with previous kernel versions: > * Debian 7 (wheezy): <= 3.2.78-1 > * Debian 8 (jessie): <= 3.16.43-2 > * Debian 9 (stretch): <= 4.9.30-2 > * Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty): <= 3.13.0-119 > * Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial): <= 4.4.0-79 > > Canonical and Debian will release normal kernel updates soon. > > -- > With best regards, > Ph.D., associate professor at MPEI, > IEEE member, > maintainer of Mathieu functions toolbox for Scilab, > Nikolay Strelkov. > > 28 июня 2017 г. 7:02 пользователь "Tim Wescott" <t...@wescottdesign.co > m> написал: > On one machine, Scilab crashes, with a segmentation fault. > > On the other, it perks along happily. > > The "bad" machine had the normal Ubuntu installation of Scilab > (5.5.2), > then I wiped that and installed 6.0.0 -- same thing. I just > reinstalled the Ubuntu version -- crashes. > > scilab-cli works > > The "good" machine is the same Ubuntu distro (16.04, 64-bit). > > Any clues as to what may be happening? > > -- > > Tim Wescott > www.wescottdesign.com > Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. > Phone: 503.631.7815 > Cell: 503.349.8432 > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@lists.scilab.org > http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. Phone: 503.631.7815 Cell: 503.349.8432 _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.scilab.org http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users