Bug#774640: liblapack3: SVD throws error -4 in 3.5.0-4 while it runs with version 3.4.1.

Madlene Nussbaum mnocci at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 16:48:52 UTC 2015


Package: liblapack3
Version: 3.5.0-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Some computations in R gave a matrix. The single value decomposition
of it worked fine previously, after an system upgrade I get the
following error in R:

-----
$ R
load("matrix-lapack-error4.RData")
La.svd(x,256,256)

 Error in La.svd(x, nu, nv) :
    BLAS/LAPACK routine 'DLASCL' gave error code -4
-----

Erroneous Matrix:
ftp://usys-ftp.ethz.ch/ITES/STEP/nussbaum/R/matrix-lapack-error4.RData
/.csv

* Previous version:     liblapack3   3.4.1 (running without error)
* New version:          liblapack3   3.5.0-4 (gives error above)
* Operation running without error using libopenblas-base or libatlas3-base


How do I track down this error code?
Is this a bug in liblapack3 or what did change?

Thank you for your help!
Madlene



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages liblapack3 depends on:
ii  libatlas3-base [libblas.so.3]    3.10.2-6
ii  libblas3 [libblas.so.3]          1.2.20110419-10
ii  libc6                            2.19-13
ii  libgcc1                          1:4.9.1-19
ii  libgfortran3                     4.9.1-19
ii  libopenblas-base [libblas.so.3]  0.2.12-1
ii  libquadmath0                     4.9.1-19

liblapack3 recommends no packages.

liblapack3 suggests no packages.

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