Hi KnS,

Please stop sage, try this command

sudo mv /home/knsam/.sage/tmp{.broken-permissions}

And try run sage again.

Regards,
Jan





On 14 November 2012 13:15, Kannappan Sampath <kntri...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Jan,
> I get the following message:
>
> ii  sagemath-upstream-binary                     5.4
>
> Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system
>
> But, please do take a look at the Sage_Crash_report (the link to pastebin
> in my previous message). Thanks for responding promptly.
>
> On this note, I'd like to tell you that, I can run Sage with Sudo
> permissions but not otherwise.
>
> The status of the problem is as described here:
> http://ask.sagemath.org/question/1978/updating-to-54-from-ubuntu-ppa
>
> Thank you.
>
> ~KnS.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Jan Groenewald <j...@aims.ac.za> wrote:
>
>> Dear KnS,
>>
>> We are already busy testing a fix for this.
>>
>> In the meantime, I don't see that your problem is directly related. In
>> fact it is possibly something different altogether.
>>
>> If your system is broken due to this error, then you will see the
>> following output:
>>
>> $ dpkg -l |grep sagemath-upstream-binary
>> iF  sagemath-upstream-binary
>> 5.4                                     Sage is a free open-source
>> mathematics software system
>>
>> If you don't see above, I think your error is unrelated. Can you try move
>> .sage aside to .sage.backup and see whether you still get that error?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 14 November 2012 05:43, kannappan sampath <kntri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am also facing the same problem while updating Sage from the Ubuntu
>>> PPA. Running sudo dpkg-reconfigure sagemath-upstream-binary produced the
>>> following output for me.
>>>
>>> Removing previous path, rm -rf /usr/lib/sage (new path /usr/lib/sagemath)
>>> Running Sage once as root to set paths
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> | Sage Version 5.4, Release Date: 2012-11-09                         |
>>> | Type "notebook()" for the browser-based notebook interface.        |
>>> | Type "help()" for help.                                            |
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> sage: Exiting Sage (CPU time 0m0.07s, Wall time 0m0.07s).
>>>
>>> When I try to run Sage on the terminal, I get a name error: sage_prompt
>>> is not defined. It also guesses that I might want to run %upgrade and I do
>>> this each time but to no avail. (Error message: Error importing
>>> ipy_profile_sage - perhaps you should run %upgrade? WARNING: Loading of
>>> ipy_profile_sage failed.)
>>>
>>> Here is the Sage Crash Report: http://pastebin.com/tGuWA2Zz
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> KnS
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 5:25:29 AM UTC+5:30, JJS137 wrote:
>>> > The Sage 5.4 installation on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS using Update Manager
>>> fails with the following messages:
>>> >
>>> > installArchives() failed: (Reading database ...
>>> > (Reading database ... 5%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 10%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 15%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 20%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 25%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 30%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 35%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 40%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 45%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 50%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 55%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 60%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 65%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 70%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 75%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 80%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 85%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 90%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 95%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 100%%
>>> > (Reading database ... 717630 files and directories currently
>>> installed.)
>>> > Preparing to replace libav-tools 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using
>>> .../libav-tools_4%%3a0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> > Unpacking replacement libav-tools ...
>>> > Preparing to replace libpostproc52 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using
>>> .../libpostproc52_4%%3a0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> > Unpacking replacement libpostproc52 ...
>>> > Preparing to replace libavfilter2 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using
>>> .../libavfilter2_4%%3a0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> > Unpacking replacement libavfilter2 ...
>>> > Preparing to replace libswscale2 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using
>>> .../libswscale2_4%%3a0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> > Unpacking replacement libswscale2 ...
>>> > Preparing to replace libavdevice53 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using
>>> .../libavdevice53_4%%3a0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> > Unpacking replacement libavdevice53 ...
>>> > Preparing to replace libavformat53 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using
>>> .../libavformat53_4%%3a0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> > Unpacking replacement libavformat53 ...
>>> > Preparing to replace libavcodec53 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using
>>> .../libavcodec53_4%%3a0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> > Unpacking replacement libavcodec53 ...
>>> > Preparing to replace libavutil51 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using
>>> .../libavutil51_4%%3a0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> > Unpacking replacement libavutil51 ...
>>> > Preparing to replace libproxy1-plugin-networkmanager 0.4.7-0ubuntu4
>>> (using .../libproxy1-plugin-networkmanager_0.4.7-0ubuntu4.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> > Unpacking replacement libproxy1-plugin-networkmanager ...
>>> > Preparing to replace libproxy1-plugin-gsettings 0.4.7-0ubuntu4 (using
>>> .../libproxy1-plugin-gsettings_0.4.7-0ubuntu4.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> > Unpacking replacement libproxy1-plugin-gsettings ...
>>> > Preparing to replace libproxy1 0.4.7-0ubuntu4 (using
>>> .../libproxy1_0.4.7-0ubuntu4.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> > Unpacking replacement libproxy1 ...
>>> > Preparing to replace ffmpeg 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using
>>> .../ffmpeg_4%%3a0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_all.deb) ...
>>> > Unpacking replacement ffmpeg ...
>>> > Preparing to replace sagemath-upstream-binary 5.1 (using
>>> .../sagemath-upstream-binary_5.4_i386.deb) ...
>>> > Unpacking replacement sagemath-upstream-binary ...
>>> > Preparing to replace python-libproxy 0.4.7-0ubuntu4 (using
>>> .../python-libproxy_0.4.7-0ubuntu4.1_all.deb) ...
>>> > Unpacking replacement python-libproxy ...
>>> > Processing triggers for man-db ...
>>> > Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
>>> > Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
>>> > Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
>>> > Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
>>> > Setting up libavutil51 (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> > Setting up libavcodec53 (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> > Setting up libavformat53 (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> > Setting up libavdevice53 (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> > Setting up libswscale2 (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> > Setting up libavfilter2 (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> > Setting up libpostproc52 (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> > Setting up libav-tools (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> > Setting up libproxy1 (0.4.7-0ubuntu4.1) ...
>>> > Setting up libproxy1-plugin-networkmanager (0.4.7-0ubuntu4.1) ...
>>> > Setting up libproxy1-plugin-gsettings (0.4.7-0ubuntu4.1) ...
>>> > Setting up ffmpeg (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> > Setting up sagemath-upstream-binary (5.4) ...
>>> > Removing previous path, rm -rf /usr/lib/sage (new path
>>> /usr/lib/sagemath)
>>> > Running Sage once as root to set paths
>>> > Error: environment variable $HOME is not set.
>>> > Error setting environment variables by sourcing
>>> '/usr/lib/sagemath/spkg/bin/sage-env';
>>> > possibly contact sage-devel (see
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel).
>>> > dpkg: error processing sagemath-upstream-binary (--configure):
>>> >  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
>>> status 1
>>> > No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
>>> > Setting up python-libproxy (0.4.7-0ubuntu4.1) ...
>>> > Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
>>> > ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
>>> > Errors were encountered while processing:
>>> >  sagemath-upstream-binary
>>> > Error in function:
>>> > SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>> > Setting up sagemath-upstream-binary (5.4) ...
>>> > Removing previous path, rm -rf /usr/lib/sage (new path
>>> /usr/lib/sagemath)
>>> > Running Sage once as root to set paths
>>> > Error: environment variable $HOME is not set.
>>> > Error setting environment variables by sourcing
>>> '/usr/lib/sagemath/spkg/bin/sage-env';
>>> > possibly contact sage-devel (see
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel).
>>> > dpkg: error processing sagemath-upstream-binary (--configure):
>>> >  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
>>> status 1
>>> >
>>> > Is there a work around or fix for this problem?
>>>
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