[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#589303: octave3.2: crashes reproducibly

[Francesco Potortì]

>The previous instruction crashes Octave.  Going to report this on the
>bug list.

More info.  This depends on package loading.  It happens for the "ad"
package and for the "communications" package, but not with
"conbinatorics", "audio", "bim" or "bioinfo".

This is a log:

$ octave --norc
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octave:1> pkg global_list /usr/share/octave/packages/3.2/octave_packages;

octave:2> pkg prefix /usr/share/octave/packages/3.2 /usr/lib/octave/packages/3.2;

octave:3> pkg load communications
warning: mark_as_command is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave

octave:4> pkg describe communications
---
Package name:
	communications
Version:
	1.0.10
Short description:
	Digital Communications, Error Correcting Codes (Channel Code), Source Code functions, Modulation and Galois Fields
Status:
	Loaded

octave:5> rand;sum(rand("state",1));
panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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