My apologies - Matthias G reports exactly the same problem in another post. I'll try the recommended solution there i.e. dropping back to sage 7.3 (not 7.4)
I'm new to this. A On Wednesday, 7 December 2016 13:21:16 UTC, Adam - wrote: > > Many thanks for that. Not sure what to do now - any further help really > appreciated. > > > I installed Fortran as you indicated but unfortunately sage still will not > run. > After some messages with paths involving python, it gives : > > - - - - > Saved trace to /home/sum/.sage/crash_logs/crash_xupMWZ.log > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Unhandled SIGILL: An illegal instruction occurred. > This probably occurred because a *compiled* module has a bug > in it and is not properly wrapped with sig_on(), sig_off(). > Python will now terminate. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Illegal instruction (core dumped)." > - - - - - > > > Unfortunately the crash logs have zero file length (i.e. empty). (The > first time a Ubuntu report widow also came up and also mentioned python, > but didn't show itself again.) > > Possibly useful further info: > > - the last two messages before the above output was > /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)[0x7f8d72aed830] > python(_start+0x29)[0x400759] > > - I put sage in and am running it from a directory hanging off my home for > now, rather than putting it somewhere else and using symlinks (but the > problem is not that it can't find things). > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.