[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59018] GUI keeps on crashing unexpectedly.

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #59018 (project octave):

How did you install Octave?  Did you use the installer or the zip file from
the Octave download site or some other distribution?

Did you install the w32, w64-32, or w64-64 version?

Could you please try the following?

start the gui version of Octave

at the command prompt, execute the command

  system (sprintf ("start gdb -p %d", getpid ()))

This should open a separate window running the gdb debugger, attached to the
Octave process.  At the (gdb) prompt in that window, type the command

  continue

Back in the Octave window, execute commands and try to provoke the crash.

When Octave crashes, execute the command

  thread apply all bt

in the gdb window.  Scroll through all the pages of output that it produces. 
Copy all of that output and attach it to this bug report.  Also report the
commands that you executed in Octave.  Maybe try this a few times to see
whether there are any patterns to the crash.  Is it always happening in the
same place, for example?

Although the distributed version doesn't contain debugging symbols, maybe the
stack trace you obtain using the above procedure will help provide some clues
about the crashes anyway.  Otherwise, without some way of examining info about
the crashes or a way to reproduce them ourselves, I don't think there is much
hope of fixing this problem given the information provided so far.

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