I fixed it: looking carefully at the output led me to look at the permissions in /usr/local and I found that /usr/local/share (owbed by root) was rwxrwxrw- so it was not possible for non-root to go there. I changed it to rwxrwxr-x and now it works normally.
Issue closed! John Cremona On Thursday, 27 March 2025 at 18:51:33 UTC John Cremona wrote: > When I want to run a notebook I start sage with "sage --notebook" > which used to open up a tab on my default browser (chrome) showing a > list of files in the directory where I issued the command. But now it > has started doing something different, namely showing a page which > wants a token to be entered in a box. This is despite the URL having > the token in it. And if I do paste in the correct token it responds > with "invalid credentials". > > This is with ubuntu 24.04 and sage 10.6.rc0 (but 10.4 does the same). > > It may be that it used to work before I upgraded from ubuntu 22.04 > (and rebuilt sage after). > > It does work OK with firefox, though that is not what sage opens by > default. > > John > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/122e6c14-23f2-4e28-94d5-37b41900edb9n%40googlegroups.com.
