Attempts to print or save a figure cause Octave to crash

[Alasdair McAndrew]

I am using Octave version 4.0.1 under a newly installed Arch Linux.  However, I can't seem to be able to save a figure.  For example:

print -djpg figure1.jpg

causes the error:

warning: print.m: fig2dev binary is not available.
Some output formats are not available.

warning: called from

    __print_parse_opts__ at line 385 column 9
    print at line 288 column 8

panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to 'octave-workspace'...
save to 'octave-workspace' complete
[1]    25330 segmentation fault (core dumped)  octave

Much the same thing happens with save or saveas - an error followed by a crash.  I'd like to know:

• why octave crashes instead of just returning an error message
• what I need in order to print to a file

I have ghostscript and gnuplot installed.  However, when I set the graphics_toolkit to gnuplot, then I can't resize a plot - enlarging the window causes the plot to be tiled, rather than resized.

In the end I simply took a screenshot.  But this is clearly only a stop-gap measure, and I'd like to be able to print/save a figure to a file.

many thanks,
Alasdair

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