Wolfgang, Thank you for your suggestion. I gave it a try and unfortunately it did not work in my case.
Take care, Travis On May 15, 2:25 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2008/5/15 Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > William, > > > My machine- > > CPU: AMD Athalon XP 1800+ (1.53 GHz) > > OS: XP SP2 (I have kept the patches up to date) > > Mother board: A-K7T3 Ultra-2 MSI > > Memory: 1.00 GB RAM > > > I did re-unzip sage-vmware-3.0.1.zip > > > I think I know the general source of my problems----The Firefox > > notebook does not work unless I am on the internet. Firefox could not > > find the notebook server (http://192.168.70.128) unless I was logged > > on to the internet. I did an experiment. I got Sage working while I > > was on the internet and everything worked fine. I logged off the > > internet and Sage stopped working. I logged back on and Sage still > > would not work. While I was still on the internet I closed the VM and > > restarted Sage. It still did not work. I imagine I would have to > > reboot in order to get Sage working again. > > > I have a dial-up connection. (I downloaded Sage elsewhere!) Sage is > > not going to work for me if I must be online in order to use it. > > Admittedly, the problem may be due to my older machine. > > >>You undoubtedly tried to upgrade() the machine then somehow messed it > > up along the way. > > > I did not try to upgrade() the VM. I just downloaded the VM and sage- > > vmware-3.0.1.zip the other day. > > > Documentation suggestions: > > > (1) If it is true that the computer must be on the internet in order > > for Sage and/or the VM to work it should be clearly noted in the > > documentation. > > (2) Even if Sage/Firefox notebook generally does not require the > > internet, the documentation for those Sage functions that do should > > indicate as much. Case in > > point:http://sagemath.org/SAGEbin/microsoft_windows/README.txt, > > USING SAGE, bullet 3. The "optional_packages()" function obviously > > will not work unless there is an internet connection, as the list of > > optional_packages() is on your website. There is no indication in > > bullet 3 that an internet connection is required. > > > Travis > > Hi, > > (I am very new to Sage and I presently have no access to the system I > am referring to; so please ignore if this advice does not make sense.) > > I exeprienced a similar problem. The reason was (I believe) > that when disconnecting from the Internet my browser is set > automatically into "offline mode". > Putting the browser back into "online mode" (without connecting to the > Internet) solved my problem. > > Wolfgang > > > > > On May 14, 10:01 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > 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> > > >> You undoubtedly tried to upgrade() the machine then somehow messed it > >> up along the way. > > >> > Is there a way to reset the Vmware state? > > >> You could unzip the original sage-vmware.zip file that you downloaded. > >> Or download a new version of sage. > > >> > Why are certain commands found in the Tutorial such as kernel() and > >> > show() causing Sage to crash? > > >> It's possible that your computer has a processor that is very old, and > >> the binary build of Sage included in the vmware image doesn't > >> support your computer. > > >> I'm working on getting a very old computer setup to build vmware images > >> that will work on an even wider class of machines... > >> What is the exact model of your machine. > > >> > 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. > > >> You could download a new vmware image from here if you > >> have a fast net connection: > >> http://sagemath.org/SAGEbin/microsoft_windows/ > > >> The sage-vmware-3.0.1.b.zip version has a full latex install > >> included, which is a nice bonus. Also, I've explicitly disabled > >> the upgrade() function, so you won't use upgrade by accident. > > >> > 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 > > >> -- > >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
