William, I'm impressed that you take the time to answer all these emails.
Well I eventually did get the notebook and command line Sage to work for a while. I managed to crash sage a few times with commands from the Tutorial such as the linear algebra command kernel() and the matplotlib command 'show()'. I believe it was sage that crashed because calculations were no longer carried out in the notebook. When I crashed it from the Vmware command line I was not able to recover. Restarting Sage does not help because Vmware takes me to its last state, which is a dollar sign prompt. when I type 'notebook' at the prompt I get the standard message followed by, "sh: cannot create notebook.log: Permission denied" "echo: write error: Broken pipe" If I type 'sage' at the $ prompt I get about 20 or 30 lines of text (which I can't copy and paste) followed by the prompt, <ERROR: name 'sage_prompt' is not defined> Is there a way to reset the Vmware state? Why are certain commands found in the Tutorial such as kernel() and show() causing Sage to crash? Unless there is a quick fix I may just have to wait until I have a Linux system or partition before trying Sage, because this Vmware approach is not working well for me and is taking too much time. Travis On May 13, 11:12 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My problem is very similar to Aaron's > > > I downloaded Sage 3.01 for windows (XP). If I > > start up in vmware, log in, and type "notebook", the following > > displays: > > Do you log in, then type notebook as you say above? Or do you type > > login: notebook > > at the login prompt? > > William > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Open Firefox to the addresshttp://192.168.83.128 > > It may take up to about 10 seconds for the server to start. Press > > Refresh. > > (Click here and press control-C twice to stop the notebook server > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > sh: cannot create notebook.log: Permission denied > > echo: write error: Broken pipe > > > At this point, it puts me back at the command prompt. > > > What part of the installation instructions am I missing? > > > Thanks, Travis > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---