On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Dr. David Kirkby
<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
> What's the best way to go about debugging a Sage which wont start up? I've
> tried running it under gdb, and that don't help me a lot. Also tried loading
> the core file, and again its not being very useful.

If this is opensolaris, then the best place to start would be to build
Sage on disk.math.washington.edu, since I have access to that machine.

William

>
> Both python and ipython seem functional.
>
> I guess the fact the source code has been deleted in the build process makes
> this more difficult to debug. I assume putting the source code back would be
> helpful.
>
> I don't really know where to start looking here.
>
>
> Dave
>
>
> drkir...@hawk:~/sage-4.5.alpha1$ ./sage -gdb
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Sage Version 4.5.alpha1, Release Date: 2010-06-29                  |
> | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.        |
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> **********************************************************************
> *                                                                    *
> * Warning: this is a prerelease version, and it may be unstable.     *
> *                                                                    *
> **********************************************************************
> /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.5.alpha1/local/bin/sage-ipython
> GNU gdb 6.8
> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
> and "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i386-pc-solaris2.11"...
> warning: Lowest section in /lib/amd64/libdl.so.1 is .dynamic at
> 00000000000000b0
> Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Jul  1 2010, 02:37:37)
> [GCC 4.4.4] on sunos5
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> warning: Lowest section in /lib/amd64/libintl.so.1 is .dynamic at
> 00000000000000b0
> warning: Lowest section in /lib/amd64/libpthread.so.1 is .dynamic at
> 00000000000000b0
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00000000004d3cad in ?? ()
> (gdb) list
> 14      Modules/python.c: No such file or directory.
>        in Modules/python.c
> (gdb)
>
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William Stein
Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
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