On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 10:57 AM, mabshoff <michael.absh...@mathematik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote: > > > > On May 2, 1:29 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Johan Oudinet <johan.oudi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: > > <SNIP> > >> > $ mount >> > /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) >> > tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) >> > proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) >> > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) >> > udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) >> > fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime) >> > automount(pid2614) on /local type autofs >> > (rw,fd=4,pgrp=2614,minproto=2,maxproto=4) >> > automount(pid2642) on /users type autofs >> > (rw,fd=4,pgrp=2642,minproto=2,maxproto=4) >> > automount(pid2872) on /tmpsim type autofs >> > (rw,fd=4,pgrp=2872,minproto=2,maxproto=4) >> > automount(pid2962) on /special type autofs >> > (rw,fd=4,pgrp=2962,minproto=2,maxproto=4) >> > netapp2:/vol/Logiciels/Fortesse on /special/fortesse type nfs >> > (rw,intr,soft,addr=129.175.1.2) >> > netapp-11:/vol/Equipe_asspro/asspro on /users/asspro type nfs >> > (rw,nosuid,intr,hard,tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,addr=129.175.1.7) >> >> > And I try to run Sage from /users/asspro > > Ok. > >> Is there enough space so you could try doing everything in /tmp or >> /local or some other *non*-NSF local partition? > > Gonzalo had the exact same problem about GAP not starting up when he > was playing around with a Debian chroot env and it turned out that he > needed to mount devpts. According to the output above that (pseudo) > filesystem is not mounted, so before trying anything else I would > recommend to mount it. The kernel might or might not support it out of > the box (since it is a Debian kernel it should). devpts should be > mounted by udev it seems per default, but check out > > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.setup/2005-03/0473.html > > on how to mount it. If this turns out to the cause it seems well > worth an entry in the FAQ as well as README.txt since this is a rather > obscure problem. Even adding a check in Sage somewhere to verify that > the devpts is mounted on startup of Sage might be worth it. > >> william > > Cheers, >
You're wright Michael! The administrator installed udev package and now Sage works! Thanks for your help. I'll never find this obscure problem else. -- Johan () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
