From bug-request at octave dot org Thu Jan 12 05:13:52 2006
Subject: Re: Segfault running this script (related to the subplots?) running  against Octave 2.9.3 (CVS)
From: Brendan Drew <brendan dot drew at perceptek-robotics dot com>
To: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dasergatskov at gmail dot com>
CC: bug at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 04:12:26 -0700

Sorry -- I missed part of the equation. It works fine so long as you 
don't do a clear all first.

e.g:
octave> kernel

works just fine.

octave> clear all
octave> kernel

segfaults.

It took me a while to figure out that the clear all is important.

Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:

> Brendan Drew wrote:
>
>> Description:
>> -----------
>>
>> I had a version of this script which, rather than producing the four 
>> subplots, created four figures and put each of those plots into their 
>> own figure. I was hoping to gather them all into a single figure, so 
>> I switched to the subplots. When I change back to using figures 
>> rather than subplots, the problem goes away.
>>
>> I'm running SuSE 9.2 (if that makes a difference) and built Octave 
>> from the CVS sources (2.9.3 -- it's about a two month old build).
>>
>
> It works fine on mine octave-2.9.4 (RedHat Enterprise Linux 4:
> gcc  version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)).
>
> Can you try to narrow the problem down?
> E.g. if you do
>
> octave:1> s=rand(10);
> octave:2> subplot(2,2,2)
> octave:3> plot(s)
>
> would it work?
>
> If not, could you try multiplot directly in gnuplot?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Dmitri.




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