At some point overnight the process which I thought had hung must have revived itself and finished, since I left it running and when I came in this morning I had a running sage server! It's hard to tell how long it took, but at least an hour as far as I can tell.
John On 19 Nov, 17:35, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > I installed certtool on the system using apt-get install gnutls-bin. > Then running certtool by itself worked fine, but running notebook(...) > from within sage still hung. > > So I moved aside sage's certtool and copied the system /usr/bin/ > certtool into sage's local/bin directory. The same happened again: it > hangs after outputting " Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key..." > > I can try installing the openssl version instead (does that have > another name? or what ubuntu package it is in?) But it is bizarre > that running certtool from the command line now works fine while from > sage it does not. > > John > > On Nov 19, 4:26 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:33 AM, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > I am having exactly the same problem as the original poster. The > > > machine runs 64-bit ubuntu (Linux version 2.6.28-13-generic > > > (bui...@yellow) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #44- > > > Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 2 07:55:09 UTC 2009) > > > > I don't have certtool installed on the machine (except the Sage > > > version). > > > Can you try installing the system-wide certtool and see what happens? > > > GNU provides one implementation of certtool and openssl provides another. > > The openssl one is excellent and robust -- the GNU one is often insanely > > slow. > > Sage has to include the GNU one... > > > > While it hangs at the point "Generating a 2048 bit RSA private > > > key..." I checked what was happening in another window: > > > > j...@selmer%ps aux | grep certtool > > > sage 13068 0.0 0.0 4028 588 pts/7 S<+ 11:05 0:00 /bin/ > > > sh -c certtool --generate-privkey --outfile /home/sage/.sage/dsage/ > > > cacert.pem > > > sage 13069 0.0 0.0 15960 1480 pts/7 S<+ 11:05 0:00 > > > certtool --generate-privkey --outfile /home/sage/.sage/dsage/ > > > cacert.pem > > > > Note that this is 25 minutes after starting to wait, and that certtool > > > is doing nothing at all (S means Suspended, right?) > > > > I tried running the certtool command outside Sage (after doing "sage - > > > sh"), namely > > > certtool --generate-privkey --outfile /home/sage/.sage/dsage/ > > > cacert.pem > > > but the same happened, i.e. nothing and no return... > > > > Any ideas for how to sort this out would be welcome. And it would be > > > nice to be able to test the correct running of certtool when Sage is > > > built. > > > > John Cremona > > > > On 16 Nov, 09:45, "marc.burw...@googlemail.com" > > > <philipp.kl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> In my case just waiting for about 10 minutes solved the problem as the > > >> entropy on the computer where I started sage was too low. > > > >> greetings marc > > > >> On Nov 12, 3:22 am, Kwankyu <ekwan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > Hi, > > > >> > I have a problem starting a sage server after, I think, upgrading to > > >> > Ubuntu 9.10 server edition. It just hangs at the point "Generating a > > >> > 2048 bit RSA private key..." See the following transcript > > >> > [...] > > > > -- > > > 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 > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > > > URL:http://www.sagemath.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 sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
