Bug#711641: Octave crashes with message: "panic: Illegal instruction"

[Sébastien Villemot]

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Le samedi 08 juin 2013 à 23:05 +0900, Takashi Yano a écrit :
> Package: libatlas3-base
> Version: 3.8.4-9 (i386)
> 
> Octave crashes when using some linear algebra calculation.
> 
> Example:
> 
> octave:1> pinv(randn(2))
> panic: Illegal instruction -- stopping myself...
> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> save to `octave-core' complete
> Illegal instruction
> 
> If libatlas3-base package is removed, the problem does not
> occur any more.
> 
> This seems to be the same problem with #635520, but
> it must have been fixed in version 3.8.4-7.

ATLAS 3.10 has just been uploaded to unstable, and it is supposed to be
much better at avoiding illegal instructions in the generic package. Can
you please give it a try on the machine where you got the problem, and
tell me whether this is now fixed?

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