Re: panic segment fault error

[Robert A. Macy]

THAT'S OLD SW !  No support.  Having said that...

I had the same problem both on the Win98 and WinXP system
running the binary octave 2.1.50a-inst.exe.  BUT got it
fixed.

Somewhere there is a "core dump" of octave.  I think it
appears in the \octave_files in the root.  

You may have a problem that can't be fixed.  However, in my
case, I simply ran out of allocated memory with octave not
liking that.  Adding memory using Cygwin control statements
fixed the problem.  You can search the email archive for
the discussion that insued.

         - Robert -

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:54:13 -0400
 address@hidden wrote:
> I get this message when running a script file using the
> Win32 binary 
> of Octave 2.1.50.
> 
> I have traced it to one of the following commands:
> 
> if nl > 0
>   fda=sparse(repmat(all_list(L,1),1,3), ...
>  repmat(all_list(L,1),1,3)+repmat([-1 0 1],nl,1), ...
>   repmat([1 -2 1], nl,1),nm,nm);
> else
>     fda=spalloc(n*m,n*m,size(all_list,1)*5);
> endif
> 
> When the segment fault happens the octave windows closes
> immediately 
> so I just see the message flash on the screen and then it
> is gone.  
> How can I debug this problem??
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Lou
> 
> 



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