octave 3.8.2 crashes if you have Mac OS X 10.9.5

[Frank Schima]

On Sep 30, 2014, at 7:34 AM, Kspaei <spaei127 at gmail.com> wrote:

I also am on 10.9.5. I have the following variants installed for boost and octave:

$ port installed octave boost
The following ports are currently installed:
  boost @1.56.0_1+no_single+no_static+python27 (active)
  octave @3.8.2_1+atlas+gcc48 (active)

> I have Mac OS X 10.9.5 and I installed octave 3.8.2.
> 
> When I type "exit" from octave, however, I see the following:
> 
> octave:1> exit
> libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type octave_interrupt_exception
> panic: Abort trap: 6 -- stopping myself...
> attempting to save variables to 'octave-workspace'...
> warning: unable to open 'octave-workspace' for writing...
> Abort trap: 6
> 
> I read on the internet that this problem seems to be due to a mixing between compilers, but I do not think there is a solution yet.
> 
> Furthermore, while using octave I also see:
> 
> libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type std::bad_cast: std::bad_cast
> panic: Abort trap: 6 -- stopping myself…

I suspect you need to selfupdate and install boost without a gcc variant. 

I see a different error however:

octave:1> exit
libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type octave_interrupt_exception
panic: Abort trap: 6 -- stopping myself...
> attempting to save variables to 'octave-workspace'...
> warning: unable to open 'octave-workspace' for writing...
> Abort trap: 6

This is because you ran it from a directory that you did not have write access to. Here is my output from my home directory. Note that I also see an About trap. 

attempting to save variables to 'octave-workspace'...
save to 'octave-workspace' complete
Abort trap: 6


Cheers!
Frank

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