[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #46285] segfault when ploting visible figure

[Francisco Albani]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46285>

                 Summary: segfault when ploting visible figure
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: falbani
            Submitted on: Sun 25 Oct 2015 12:07:51 AM GMT
                Category: Plotting
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Crash
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: falbani
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.0.0
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

Example:

$ octave-cli -q
octave:1> version 
ans = 4.0.0
octave:2> graphics_toolkit 
ans = fltk
octave:3> plot(1:10,1:10)
octave:4> print('asd.pdf')
warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
Some output formats are not available.
warning: called from
    __print_parse_opts__ at line 382 column 9
    print at line 288 column 8
warning: print.m: fig2dev binary is not available.
Some output formats are not available.
warning: print.m: pstoedit binary is not available.
Some output formats are not available.
panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to 'octave-workspace'...
save to 'octave-workspace' complete
Violación de segmento (`core' generado)
$ 


Workaround:

$ octave-cli -q
octave:1> figure(1, 'visible', 'off')
octave:2> plot(1:10,1:10)
octave:3> print('asd.pdf')
warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
Some output formats are not available.
warning: called from
    __print_parse_opts__ at line 382 column 9
    print at line 288 column 8
warning: print.m: fig2dev binary is not available.
Some output formats are not available.
warning: print.m: pstoedit binary is not available.
Some output formats are not available.
octave:4>


Some context:

$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated
Graphics (rev 09)
$ uname -a
Linux coal 4.2.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 3 18:52:50 CEST 2015 x86_64
GNU/Linux


I'm on a up-to-date Arch Linux, with this installed packages:

$ pacman -Qsq octave
octave
octave-communications
octave-control
octave-data-smoothing
octave-general
octave-io
octave-linear-algebra
octave-miscellaneous
octave-optim
octave-signal
octave-statistics
octave-struct
vim-octave





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