From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed May 10 12:15:53 2000
Subject: Segmentation fault
From: Esben Byskov <i6eb at civil dot auc dot dk>
To: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Cc: esben at civil dot auc dot dk
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 19:17:09 +0200

To whom it may concern.

On my other computer I am running Debian Linux Slink and have had good use
of octave until today.

Usually, I have written octave in an xterm and then read the *.m-file from
octave, and all worked well. 
Today, I wrote

  octave Shanper.m

where Shanper.m obviously is the main *.m-file.
Now, octave gave a message entailing

  error: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
  error: attempted clean up apparently failed -- aborting...

After this I have not been able to run octave because it always gives this
message, even if I start it by writing just:

  octave

To make things even more disturbing, I reinstalled octave from my CDROM,
but without any luck in that the same error message pops up.

Sincerely,

Esben Byskov

P.S. 
I have found a little funny difference between Matlab and octave in that
Matlab insists on 

  V = CoeffMat\RVec';

and gives an error message if I write

  V = inv(CoeffMat)*RVec;

which works (used to work) under octave.  On the other hand, octave refuses
to accept the version that Matlab likes.




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Esben Byskov, Ph.D., Dr.Techn.
Professor of Structural Analysis
Department of Building Technology 
  and Structural Engineering
Aalborg University
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57
DK-9000 Aalborg
Denmark

Phone:  +45 9635 8569
email:  esben at civil dot auc dot dk
Fax:    +45 9814 8243