From help-request at octave dot org Sun Jan  9 13:35:51 2005
Subject: Re: Segmentation fault?
From: Per Persson <persquare at mac dot com>
To: Vic Norton <vic at norton dot name>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:38:37 +0100


On Jan 9, 2005, at 20:09, Vic Norton wrote:

> I'm running Octave version 2.1.57 on an 800 MHz iMac (OS X 10.3.7). I 
> have a script that does a good deal of computation. It took about 35 
> seconds (on the last data set I tried).
>
> The script seems to work just fine whenever I run it (no reported 
> errors, appropriate output), but, if I quit Octave after it is run, I 
> get the message
>
>    octave> quit
>    panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
>    attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
>    save to `octave-core' complete
>    Segmentation fault
>
> As I say, the script seems to be doing just what it is supposed to. 
> Still, I am a bit concerned about this message. Is there some 
> relatively easy way that I can trace where the problem is occurring?

Yes, look in $HOME/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/octave.crash.log
You'll find a lot of info there, described in the following tech note:
<http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2004/tn2123.html>

/Per



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