Changing the permissions in the /usr/local/ path so that all users
could write seems to have straightened out the build problem.
I sudo chmod'ed +w's and then after the build, returned the
permissions to 755's.

On Nov 11, 10:30 pm, bill <bill.margo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy all,
>
> Step 1: I download Sage via metalink: sage-4.6-linux-64bit-
> ubuntu_10.04.1_lts-x86_64-Linux.tar.lzma
> Step2:  Do md5sum.  Checks.  Move file to my home directory.
> Step3: tar --lzma -xvf sage*tar.lzma ;;; seems successful.
> Step4: invoke from my work directory:  ../sage*/sage
> Banner displays: Sage version 4.6 ...
> Step 5: continues "The Sage install tree may have moved
> (from /scratch/wstein/build/sage-4.6 to /home/bill/sage-4.6-
> linux-64...)
> Changing various hadcoded paths
> (please wait at most a few minutes)
> Do not interrupt this.
> Done resetting paths       ( ;;; many minutes later...)
>
> _____________________________
> UNhandled SIGBUS: A bus error occurred in Sage.
> This probably occurred because a *compiled* component
> of Sage has a bug in it (typically accessing invalid memory)
> or is not propoerly wrapped with _sig_on, _sig_off.
> You might want to run Sage under gdb ....
>
> Question: what do I do now?  (have not debugged with gdm in quite a
> while...)
>
> -sincerely,
> Bill.

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