On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 08:57 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 31 January 2013 16:47, William Ludescher <whludesc...@verizon.net> wrote: > > rafael, > > Well here's the dump from strace. It looks like it only tells us the > > directory of the routine which is being processed. The last meaningful > > one here is an octave signal directory, which has a bunch of short time > > frequency estimation algorithms, > > You're looking at a bunch of irrelevant information. > > You have nasal demons. That they happen to occur when you do matrix > multiplication just means that your nasal demons are deep in the > system. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_demon > > The only useful information here is that you're getting SIGILL. Your > Octave binaries or the libraries it depends on are seriously messed > up. Trying to diagnose it by multiplying matrices or doing other > operations is not fruitful. > > When you first reported this bug, you didn't use Debian's reportbug > command. This command includes a lot of useful information, such as > which libraries you've installed and how. Is there something here that > you aren't telling us? Have you been touching files under /usr without > going though apt or dpkg? Can you run reportbug and just forward us > the form email it creates for you? > > Thanks, > - Jordi G. H. Jordi, I ran reportbug as you requested. I'm not sure if used the tool correctly but here is a dump of its output:
ubject: octave crashes during elementary matrix multiply Package: octave Version: 3.6.2-5~bpo60+1 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages octave depends on: ii libamd2.2.0 1:3.4.0-2 approximate minimum degree orderin ii libarpack2 2.1+parpack96.dfsg-3 Fortran77 subroutines to solve lar ii libatlas3gf-base [l 3.8.3-27 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra ii libblas3gf [libblas 1.2-8 Basic Linear Algebra Reference imp ii libc6 2.11.3-4 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 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze2 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+b1 Fast Light Toolkit - shared librar ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1+squeeze4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library ii libgl1-mesa-glx [li 7.7.1-5 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libglpk0 4.43-1 linear programming kit with intege ii libgomp1 4.4.5-8 GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library ii libgraphicsmagick++ 1.3.12-1+b1 format-independent image processin ii libgraphicsmagick3 1.3.12-1+b1 format-independent image processin ii liblapack3gf [libla 3.2.1-8 library of linear algebra routines ii liboctave1 3.6.2-5~bpo60+1 Shared libraries of the GNU Octave ii libpcre3 8.02-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii libqhull5 2009.1-1 calculate convex hulls and related ii libqrupdate1 1.0.1-1 Fast updates of QR and Cholesky de ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libumfpack5.4.0 1:3.4.0-2 sparse LU factorization library ii octave-common 3.6.2-5~bpo60+1 architecture-independent files for ii texinfo 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Documentation system for on-line i ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages octave recommends: ii gnuplot-x11 4.4.0-1.1+b1 A command-line driven interactive ii libatlas3gf-base 3.8.3-27 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Versions of packages octave suggests: Versions of packages octave suggests: pn octave-doc <none> (no description available) pn octave-htmldoc <none> (no description available) pn octave-info <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
