On Nov 16, 2006, at 4:20 AM, Matt Parry wrote: > > i've installed octave on an intel macbook pro. latest everything: > fink, > mac osx, apple x11. > > everything works fine except when octave tries to pipe stuff to an > external process. for example: gnuplot and less. then i get > > panic: Bus error -- stopping myself... > attempting to save variables to `octave-core'... > panic: attempted clean up apparently failed -- aborting... > Abort > > with gnuplot, the abort happens straightaway. with less, when > called by > help (but not help -i or when displaying a large vector/matrix), i > get the > help info and then the abort. > > i am not sure how to uncover more information about the crash and > would > appreciate any insight. > > cheers, > > matt. > > p.s. comparing the install with one (octave 2.1.64) on an g3 ibook, > the > main difference in octave_config_info is > > words_big_endian = 0 > words_little_endian = 1 > > which are swapped. but i am guessing this is a ppc/intel difference.
Hi, I've got octave 2.1.72-1110 from fink unstable on a MBP, and cannot confirm this problem. Plotting and help works fine for me. But perhaps you've got the octave from the "stable" tree - you didn't say anything about that, but I'm guessing (rather blindly) that there's some incompatible or missing binary version of something octave depends on. If this is the case, then this would be a situation where switching to the "unstable" tree may make things more stable... Have you done a fink selfupdate and update-all lately? Or do you have a ~/.octave* directory that you could move out of the way? Jens ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
