Yes I do have a write permission to /home/hector/.sage//temp/ And that file looks like this -
" ============================================================================ " Netrw Directory Listing (netrw v136) " /home/hector/.sage/temp " Sorted by name " Sort sequence: [\/]$,\<core\%(\.\d\+\)\=\>,\.h$,\.c$,\.cpp$,*,\.o$,\.obj$,\.info$,\.swp$,\.bak$,\~$ " Quick Help: <F1>:help -:go up dir D:delete R:rename s:sort-by x:exec " ============================================================================ ../ hector/ cleaner-hector.pid How did you fixed your problem? On 3/11/11, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 3/11/11 6:17 AM, Hector wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> I recently got my laptop formatted and hence have to work with older >> version of sage for few days.I cloned it and while starting the Sage I >> got following error. I have never been close to anything like this >> before so sorry but I am posting this question without putting much >> effort from my side. I would be grateful if someone guide me on this. >> >> hector@hector:/home/sage$ sage >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> | Sage Version 4.5, Release Date: 2010-07-16 | >> | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. | >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/home/sage/local/bin/sage-cleaner", line 100, in<module> >> setup_daemon() >> File "/home/sage/local/bin/sage-cleaner", line 97, in setup_daemon >> open(pidfile,'w').write(str(os.getpid())) >> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: >> '/home/hector/.sage//temp/cleaner-hector.pid' >> Loading Sage library. Current Mercurial branch is: test >> sage: > > Do you have write permissions to: > > /home/hector/.sage//temp/ ? > > If you do, then I bet that the problem is the double slash. In fact, we > just ran into this same sort of problem when working on the new jmol > going into Sage---the temporary directory has a double-slash, so it is > confusing where exactly that temp directory is. > > Jason > > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- -Regards Hector Whenever you think you can or you can't, in either way you are right. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org