Octave crashing

[Matthias Brennwald]

Dear all

I upgraded to Octave 3.2.3. If I try to start Octave, the following  
happens:

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wut-brennwald:matGSOD brennmat$ octave
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panic: impossible state reached in file `load-path.cc' at line 657
panic: Abort trap -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
Abort trap
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This is on an Intel-Mac with Mac OS X 10.5. Octave was installed and  
compiled through MacPorts. Any ideas what might be wrong and what to do?

Matthias