Hi William,

No, I don't do that, but who knows what happened? Anyway, after
slightly changing the command
you suggested to:
~~~~~~~~~~
chown mdobbs -R /home/mdobbs/.sage
~~~~~~~~~~
things work as expected ;-) Thanks to all for the help!...Dave


On Nov 3, 11:05 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:41 AM, davedo2 <dave...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Marshall,
>
> > It's a bit lengthy, but here goes:
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > sage: pari(7).isprime()
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > IOError                                   Traceback (most recent call
> > last)
>
> > /home/mdobbs/sage-4.2/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/
> > iplib.pyc in raw_input(self, prompt, continue_prompt)
> >   2185             # only entries starting at first column go to
> > shadow history
> >   2186             if line.lstrip() == line:
> > -> 2187                 self.shadowhist.add(line.strip())
> >   2188         elif not continue_prompt:
> >   2189             self.input_hist_raw.append('\n')
>
> > /home/mdobbs/sage-4.2/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/
> > history.pyc in add(self, ent)
> >    235         newidx = self.inc_idx()
> >    236         #print "new",newidx # dbg
> > --> 237         self.db.hset('shadowhist',ent, newidx)
> >    238
> >    239     def all(self):
>
> > /home/mdobbs/sage-4.2/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/
> > Extensions/pickleshare.pyc in hset(self, hashroot, key, value)
> >     99         d = self.get(hfile, {})
> >    100         d.update( {key : value})
> > --> 101         self[hfile] = d
> >    102
> >    103
>
> > /home/mdobbs/sage-4.2/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/
> > Extensions/pickleshare.pyc in __setitem__(self, key, value)
> >     84         if parent and not parent.isdir():
> >     85             parent.makedirs()
> > ---> 86         pickled = pickle.dump(value,fil.open('w'))
> >     87         try:
> >     88             self.cache[fil] = (value,fil.mtime)
>
> > /home/mdobbs/sage-4.2/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/
> > external/path.pyc in open(self, mode)
> >    521     def open(self, mode='r'):
> >    522         """ Open this file.  Return a file object. """
> > --> 523         return file(self, mode)
> >    524
> >    525     def bytes(self):
>
> > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: path('/home/mdobbs/.sage/
> > ipython/db/shadowhist/39')
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > I had run -testall and that came back fairly clean except for this:
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > The following tests failed:
> >        sage -t  "devel/sage/sage/modules/vector_real_double_dense.pyx"
> > Total time for all tests: 4311.3 seconds
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > N.B. - as per previous advice, I was running the binary for Ubuntu
> > 9.04 under Ubuntu 9.10
>
> > Thanks in advance for any advice...Dave
>
> Given the error message  "IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> path('/home/mdobbs/.sage/
> ipython/db/shadowhist/39')" I recommend fixing your file permissions.
>  You probably ran sage once as root or something funny. Do something
> like this:
>
>  chown a+rwx -R mdobbs. /home/mdobbs/.sage
>
> William
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