Posts: 2
Eugenn
Joined: 01 Jan 2011
#1
Hello,

Thank you for such a great distro and a Happy New Year to everyone.

I guess this is not Antix related...
After reinstaling Antix 8.5 on an older PC - Intel P3 Coppermine, 512MB RAM, I discovered the new
octave version octave3.2, 3.2.4-8 gives a panic error at runtime (I tried reinstalling a few times). The previous version run perfectly on this hardware.
Probably the new version was compiled for a newer processor, being optimized for something better than i686?
Please give an advice for running the software on this PC preferably not by compiling from source.

Thanks

Edit
octave runs on P4 or newer, I tested it on another Antix 8.5 computer.
This is the actual error on P3:

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eugen@antiX1:~$ octave
GNU Octave, version 3.2.4
Copyright (C) 2009 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for"i486-pc-linux-gnu".

Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html

Report bugs to <bug@octave.org> (but first, please read
http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).

For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'.

octave:1> x=1:10;
octave:2> plot(x)
panic: Illegal instruction -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
warning: unable to open `octave-core' for writing...
Illegal instruction
eugen@antiX1:~$ 
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
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Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#2
One suggestion is to temporarily comment out the Testing repos and see if you can install the older version from stable or even possibly from lenny.