a better solution, is to remove texlive from your $PATH environment variable
hum, hum... how to do that? thanks in advance Le jeu. 30 janv. 2020 à 15:07, E. Madison Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> a écrit : > On Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 12:36:31 PM UTC+1, E. Madison Bray wrote: >> >> On Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 9:27:56 AM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 30 Jan 2020, 08:09 Jean-François Ingenbleek, <jinge...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> indeed >>>> >>>> Norton/McAfee/Symantec antivirus or antispyware >>>> >>>> is running. >>>> >>> >> Wait, which is it? Both? All of these have potential to interfere in >> unusual ways with unsigned open-source software (which many virus scanners >> attack as "evil"). Having multiple virus scanners installed is highly >> discouraged as they are likely to interfere even with each other. >> >> >>> and now what should i do? >>>> >>> >>> Please check that it is indeed the problem. >>> Disable it and check whether it fixes the issue. >>> >> >> For starters, please only install security software that you're sure you >> actually need. For virus scanners, most allow you to configure >> exceptions. For example, please create an exception for the SageMath >> installation directory, as well as any LaTeX distributions you have >> installed. >> >> >> >>> My warning is not potentially wrong: a user under windows8 with Mcaffee >>>> is not able to use sagemath9, no patch known to date, it is a fact that it >>>> is better to know to not lose his time >>>> >>> >> Maybe, but no one has confirmed yet what the actual problem is, so it's >> not helpful to make broad pronouncements that may not apply to most users. >> I've seen at most 2 other reports of this issue so it clearly isn't just >> you, but please let the software developers make pronouncements like this >> if/when we have full information. >> >> >> >>> it is a wonder in itself that 8.9 worked with Mcaffee installed and >>> running. >>> >> >> It's not always a problem. I haven't seen too many problems with McAffee >> interfering with Cygwin programs. Avast is much worse. But I haven't done >> a comprehensive review of how different virus scanners affect Sage/Cygwin. >> Perhaps I should install them one by one in a VM and see but it's time I >> don't have. I would like to have comprehensive instructions for how to add >> path exceptions for different virus scanners. >> > > > For those not following the GitHub issue, I managed to reproduce the > problem: > https://github.com/sagemath/sage-windows/issues/42#issuecomment-580268035 > > As far as I can tell it has nothing to do with virus scanners, and instead > impacts users of the texlive LaTeX distribution for Windows. I was > previously using MiKTeX, which for some reason does not exhibit the same > problem. A workaround, pending a better solution, is to remove texlive > from your $PATH environment variable when running Sage. It shouldn't be > necessary to do this every time, I don't think. Just once so that > matplotlib can regenerate its font cache. > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/6b36d0a1-7b12-42c6-9814-fb08bee1167e%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/6b36d0a1-7b12-42c6-9814-fb08bee1167e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/CAMCN-R4VEpGMtVrDuVKNLA7fwa%3Df70_MVrwGM-U234x-RMszCw%40mail.gmail.com.
