> Either you updated the system, or you updated the (shell) environment, or your disk/swap is almost full, or your hardware is dying, or worse...
It doesn't seem as if any of these apply -- any idea what I could check to find the issue? Note that I can start python sage's python normally, see above... Here are my envs, memory/disk/swap is available in gb's. $ printenv CLUTTER_IM_MODULE=xim LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33; 01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=00:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34; 42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arc=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz= 01;31:*.lha=01;31:*.lz4=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01; 31:*.tzo=01;31:*.t7z=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz= 01;31:*.lrz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.lzo=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.zst=01;31:*.tzst=01;31 :*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*. rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.war=01;31:*.ear=01;31:*.sar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.alz= 01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.cab=01;31 :*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.mjpg=01;35:*.mjpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35 :*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*. tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*. pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*. webm=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt =01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01; 35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*. xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.aac= 00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.m4a=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00; 36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:*.oga=00;36:*. opus=00;36:*.spx=00;36:*.xspf=00;36: LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 LESSCLOSE=/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8 XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome- LANG=en_US.UTF-8 DISPLAY=:0 GNOME_SHELL_SESSION_MODE=ubuntu COLORTERM=truecolor DESKTOP_AUTOSTART_ID=10d62c0231fcff69fd152952465011751700000018980008 USERNAME=stumpc5 XDG_VTNR=2 SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1001/keyring/ssh S_COLORS=auto LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8 XDG_SESSION_ID=9 CLUTTER_VBLANK=none USER=stumpc5 DESKTOP_SESSION=ubuntu QT4_IM_MODULE=xim TEXTDOMAINDIR=/usr/share/locale/ WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=appmenu-qt5 PWD=/home/stumpc5 HOME=/home/stumpc5 JOURNAL_STREAM=9:31621 TEXTDOMAIN=im-config XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/ desktop XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=ubuntu LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8 VTE_VERSION=4804 TERM=xterm-256color SHELL=/bin/bash QT_IM_MODULE=ibus XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus IM_CONFIG_PHASE=2 XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=ubuntu:GNOME XDG_SEAT=seat0 SHLVL=2 LANGUAGE=en_US: MANPATH=:/home/stumpc5/progs/texlive/2014/installation/texmf-dist/doc/man LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8 GDMSESSION=ubuntu GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated LOGNAME=stumpc5 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1001/bus XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1001 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg PATH=/home/stumpc5/progs/texlive/2014/installation/bin/x86_64-linux:/home/ stumpc5/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin: /usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/home/stumpc5/bin/ LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8 INFOPATH=:/home/stumpc5/progs/texlive/2014/installation/texmf-dist/doc/info DESKTOP_MODE=1 SESSION_MANAGER=local/associahedron:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/1898,unix/associahedron: /tmp/.ICE-unix/1898 LESSOPEN=| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 _=/usr/bin/printenv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.