Re: Calling plot() consistently crashes octave - Why?

[Mike Miller]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 09:41:27 -0700, david wrote:
> Does this agree with what you expected ?
> 
> I re-ran my test program
> octave:1> x=1:10; y=x.^2;
> octave:2> plot(x,y,);
> octave:3> grid on
> octave:4> graphics_toolkit
> ans = fltk
> 
> 
> It plotted perfectly the first time in its own viewport.

Good, so that ancient version of OpenBLAS is not suitable for your
processor, either due to an old bug or the way in which the package was
compiled.

> The Live DVD linux distribution I tried last night (on the same 64-bit
> machine, yes) was
> solydk 64-bit version released July 7, 2017.    Free download from
> https://solydxk.com/

No surprise here, as this is based on a much newer version of Debian. If
OpenBLAS is installed in this live environment, it is the latest version
that has likely fixed the problems that were present in wheezy.

-- 
mike