[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#592517: crashes: impossible state reached in file `load-path.cc' at line 657

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Package: octave3.2
Version: 3.2.4-6
Severity: important
Tags: upstream


Hi,

Was giving octave a try on eeglab matlab toolbox and got it crashed due to the
issue which could easily be reproduced with

echo "addpath('./'); addpath('./')" | octave

according to
http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2010-March/010503.html

issue is fixed within 3.3.x development but as I understand 3.3.x will
not come into experimental

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=575896

so I wonder if 3.2.4 could be patched... I see similar issue brought up /
"closed" upstream: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=30284
but it is due to different cause (insufficient permissions)

May be solution from (which is part of 10242:4acae5e46738 changeset)
http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2010-March/010503.html
would suffice ?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (901, 'unstable'), (900, 'testing'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave3.2 depends on:
ii  libamd2.2.0      1:3.4.0-2               approximate minimum degree orderin
ii  libarpack2       2.1+parpack96.dfsg-3+b1 Fortran77 subroutines to solve lar
ii  libatlas3gf-base 3.8.3-19                Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libblas3gf [libb 1.2-7                   Basic Linear Algebra Reference imp
ii  libbz2-1.0       1.0.5-4                 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6            2.11.2-2                Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcamd2.2.0     1:3.4.0-2               symmetric approximate minimum degr
ii  libccolamd2.7.1  1:3.4.0-2               constrained column approximate lib
ii  libcholmod1.7.1  1:3.4.0-2               sparse Cholesky factorization libr
ii  libcolamd2.7.1   1:3.4.0-2               column approximate minimum degree 
ii  libcurl3-gnutls  7.21.0-1                Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libcxsparse2.2.3 1:3.4.0-2               concise sparse matrix library (com
ii  libfftw3-3       3.2.2-1                 library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libfltk1.1       1.1.10-2                Fast Light Toolkit - shared librar
ii  libfreetype6     2.3.11-1                FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libftgl2         2.1.3~rc5-3             library to render text in OpenGL u
ii  libgcc1          1:4.4.4-7               GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3     4.4.4-7                 Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx  7.7.1-3                 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglpk0         4.43-1                  linear programming kit with intege
ii  libglu1-mesa [li 7.7.1-3                 The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libgomp1         4.4.4-7                 GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library
ii  libgraphicsmagic 1.3.12-1                format-independent image processin
ii  libgraphicsmagic 1.3.12-1                format-independent image processin
ii  libhdf5-serial-1 1.8.4-patch1-2          Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libice6          2:1.0.6-1               X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjasper1       1.900.1-7               The JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime libra
ii  libjpeg62        6b1-1                   The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblapack3gf [li 3.2.2-1                 library of linear algebra routines
ii  liblcms1         1.18.dfsg-1.2+b2        Color management library
ii  libltdl7         2.2.6b-2                A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libncurses5      5.7+20100313-2          shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3         7.8-3                   Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libpng12-0       1.2.44-1                PNG library - runtime
ii  libqhull5        2009.1-1                calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libqrupdate1     1.0.1-1                 Fast updates of QR and Cholesky de
ii  libreadline6     6.1-3                   GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsm6           2:1.1.1-1               X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6       4.4.4-7                 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4         3.9.4-1                 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libumfpack5.4.0  1:3.4.0-2               sparse LU factorization library
ii  libwmf0.2-7      0.2.8.4-6.1             Windows metafile conversion librar
ii  libx11-6         2:1.3.3-3               X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6         2:1.1.1-3               X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2          2.7.7.dfsg-4            GNOME XML library
ii  octave3.2-common 3.2.4-6                 architecture-independent files for
ii  texinfo          4.13a.dfsg.1-5          Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.3.5.dfsg-1        compression library - runtime

Versions of packages octave3.2 recommends:
ii  gnuplot                       4.4.0-1    A command-line driven interactive 
ii  libatlas3gf-base              3.8.3-19   Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra

Versions of packages octave3.2 suggests:
pn  octave3.2-doc                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  octave3.2-emacsen             <none>     (no description available)
ii  octave3.2-headers             3.2.4-6    header files for the GNU Octave la
pn  octave3.2-htmldoc             <none>     (no description available)
pn  octave3.2-info                <none>     (no description available)

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