Re: Bug in octave packages for FC4?

[Quentin Spencer]

Marcus Vinicius Eiffle Duarte wrote:

> Hello, folks!
>
> I am not quite sure if this is the right place to ask, so forgive me
> in case it is not.
>
> I am running Fedora Core 4 on a Pentium 4 2.4GHz with 2 Gb RAM. Today
> (2005-08-04) I upgraded Octave and Octave-devel via "yum update". The
> packages now installed are octave-2.1.71-14.fc4.i386.rpm and
> octave-devel-2.1.71-14.fc4.i386.rpm from the "extras" repository. The
> octave-forge was not upgraded, being version 2005-06-13, release
> 06.fc4.
>
> After I upgraded, I keep getting panic segmentation folks when running
> simple commands, as "help" or "plot(linspace(1,10))". Simple
> instructions as "x=1" do not yield errors, but I can't run any of my
> scripts.
>
> Has anyone using FC4 found the same behavior? Does anyone know how to
> contact the package maintainer?
>  
I'm the package maintainer, and yes, I got the problem too. The problem 
appears to be with octave-forge--removing it makes octave run properly. 
If you need a short-term fix, try that. The new version of octave was 
the first build of octave that includes support for HDF5, which is now 
in Extras. It appears that the problem is that I should have rebuilt 
octave-forge as well, but I didn't. It is building right now, and I'll 
send a link to the new package to this list as soon as it's complete.

-Quentin



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