Compiling the source seems to have fixed it. Thanks for the help.

On Aug 6, 4:29 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, August 6, 2011, Jacob Schlather <jacob.schlat...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> >>It sounds like your copy of Sage is incorrectly installed.  It would
> >>be helpful to provide tons of useful information about
> >>your sage install.
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> > This is entirely probable.  I unzipped the sage-4.7-linux-64bit-
> > ubuntu_10.04.1_lts-x86_64-Linux,
> > into a folder and have been using the pre-compiled binary. I'm
> > currently running 64 bit Ubuntu 10.10 - Maverick. I am running python
> > 2.6.6 though, which could possibly be an issue. Sorry about the
> > inconvenient form of the matrix, I had just grabbed the output. And
> > I'm also segfaulting if I just do a random matrix (such as your
> > example). So it's definitely an issue with my install or that I'm
> > still running python 2.6.6. Perhaps updating to 3.0 will fix it.
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> Your systemwide python is irrelevant.    Try building sage from source.
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> > On Aug 6, 3:05 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Jacob Schlather
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> >> <jacob.schlat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I'm having a bit of a strange issue, I'm working on something where I
> >> > need to find the rank of a somewhat large matrix over a finite field.
> >> > I recall testing sage's capabilities when I was looking at how I was
> >> > going to take the rank and remember sage taking the rank of matrices
> >> > much larger than the one that's giving me trouble. Anyway the matrix
> >> > I'm having an issue with is in the following file
> >> >https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_KM7xCfSwolYmQ4YTEzYjItYTNiZC00MTAx...
> >> > .
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> >> It is an interesting exercise just to load that matrix into Sage,
> >> given the way you provided it.
> >> It would have been much nicer to provide a link to a pickle, or
> >> sage_input, or convert
> >> the matrix to a list first or something.  Anyway, after downloading
> >> your matrix, I can make the
> >> corresponding Sage matrix as follows, I think:
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> >> sage: a = open('Matrix.dat').readlines()[1:]
> >> sage: a =
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> ''.join(open('Matrix.dat').readlines()[1:]).replace('[','').replace(']\n','
> ,').replace('
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> >> ',',')
> >> sage: m = matrix(GF(5), 255,121, eval('['+a+']'))
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> >> I then try to compute the rank, and it seems to give me the answer
> instantly:
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> >> sage: time m.rank()
> >> 121
> >> Time: CPU 0.01 s, Wall: 0.01 s
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> >> The answer seems very reasonable, since it would be the answer for a
> >> random matrix of that size.
> >> But who knows, maybe I read your matrix in incorrectly.
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> >> > The program works like a charm for matrices of smaller sizes, during
> >> > this run it will get up to around size 381*70 before crashing. If I'm
> >> > working over GF(7) then it's segfaulting for a matrix the size of 180
> >> > x 116. It's possible that the error is somehow hidden in my program,
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> >> sage: a = random_matrix(GF(7), 180, 116)
> >> sage: time a.rank()
> >> 116
> >> Time: CPU 0.00 s, Wall: 0.00 s
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> >> It sounds like your copy of Sage is incorrectly installed.  It would
> >> be helpful to provide tons of useful information about
> >> your sage install.
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> >> > in the off chance I've uploaded it here as well
> >> >https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_KM7xCfSwolY2UxNDA4OGQtZTJhZS00ZDBl...
> >> > . The offending inputs would be
> >> > Lambda(5,5,5,1)  and Lambda(7,4,7,1), of course increase the majority
> >> > of those values will also give the same error.
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> >> > The error message I'm getting is:
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> >> > RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call
> >> > last)
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> >> > /media/Media/Sage/sage-4.7-linux-64bit-ubuntu_10.04.1_lts-x86_64-Linux/
> >> > <ipython console> in <module>()
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> >> > /media/Media/Sage/sage-4.7-linux-64bit-ubuntu_10.04.1_lts-x86_64-Linux/
> >> > <string> in Lambda(q, m, k, r)
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> >> > /media/Media/Sage/sage-4.7-linux-64bit-ubuntu_10.04.1_lts-x86_64-Linux/
> >> > local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/matrix/matrix_modn_dense.so in
> >> > sage.matrix.matrix_modn_dense.Matrix_modn_dense.rank (sage/matrix/
> >> > matrix_modn_dense.c:11595)()
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> >> > RuntimeError: Segmentation fault
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