On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:23 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Kevin Buzzard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm still unclear about the philosophy of permissions.
>>
>> I downloaded sage 3.1.4 source and compiled from source. As root. Into
>> /usr/local. Because I wasn't sure how to make the installation global.
>>
>> And today I tried (as a non-root user)
>>
>> sage: magma('sqrt(2)')
>>
>> [yes, I know it should be Sqrt but I'm guessing that isn't the problem]I've made this trac ticket #4424: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4424 >> >> and I got >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) >> >> /home/buzzard/<ipython console> in <module>() >> >> /usr/local/sage-3.1.4/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage/interfaces/magma.pyc >> in __call__(self, x, gens) >> 502 if isinstance(x, bool): >> 503 return Expect.__call__(self, str(x).lower()) >> --> 504 return Expect.__call__(self, x) >> 505 return self.objgens(x, gens) >> 506 >> >> /usr/local/sage-3.1.4/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage/interfaces/expect.pyc >> in __call__(self, x, name) >> 963 return x >> 964 if isinstance(x, basestring): >> --> 965 return cls(self, x, name=name) >> 966 try: >> 967 return self._coerce_from_special_method(x) >> >> /usr/local/sage-3.1.4/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage/interfaces/expect.pyc >> in __init__(self, parent, value, is_name, name) >> 1281 except (TypeError, KeyboardInterrupt, RuntimeError, >> ValueError), x: >> 1282 self._session_number = -1 >> -> 1283 raise TypeError, x >> 1284 self._session_number = parent._session_number >> 1285 >> >> TypeError: While attempting to compile >> /usr/local/sage-3.1.4/data/extcode//magma/latex/latex.m (Data file >> non-existent): >> Can't open lock file >> /usr/local/sage-3.1.4/data/extcode//magma/latex/latex.lck for writing >> (Permission denied) >> >> While attempting to compile >> /usr/local/sage-3.1.4/data/extcode//magma/sage/basic.m (Data file >> non-existent): >> Can't open lock file >> /usr/local/sage-3.1.4/data/extcode//magma/sage/basic.lck for writing >> (Permission denied) >> sage: >> >> *** >> >> and I su-ed to root and tried again and got it right and then changed back >> to >> a non-root user and now it's OK. But what struck me, as a general user, >> was that the sage installation instructions didn't seem to explain anything >> to me about what the "correct" way to install sage system-wide on a unix >> machine was. Did I do the wrong thing?> >> Kevin >> >> PS this is sort of a 'bug report' but I'll send some general comments >> about your Bordeaux write-up to you later. > > I think this is a reasonable bug report. The fix is for Sage to > include the cached precompiled versions of the Magma files. > It used to be with Magma that one had to start it up as root > once because they didn't include precompiled files. I think > this has changed, i.e., I think they now ship the precompiled > cached files in addition to the source files. > > Note that it's best that sage bug reports should go to the mailing list > sage-support@googlegroups.com, and that I've cc'd this > message there. This way vastly more people benefit from discussion > about the bugs, can find help (via a google search) when they run into > similar problems, etc. > > William > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
