[sage-devel] Re: Starting R in Sage Chroot

2009-09-21 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Kay Wanous wrote: > > I think we are going to end up just installing on a completely different > system.  The closest I got was to > > export LC_ALL=en_US > > which allowed me to call r.version and not have it error out, but > running it from the program now produ

[sage-devel] Re: Starting R in Sage Chroot

2009-09-21 Thread Kay Wanous
I think we are going to end up just installing on a completely different system. The closest I got was to export LC_ALL=en_US which allowed me to call r.version and not have it error out, but running it from the program now produces Unless anyone has any ideas, I think I'm going to give up

[sage-devel] Re: Starting R in Sage Chroot

2009-09-17 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Kay, On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Kay Wanous wrote: > Any ideas? This might not be of any help at all but... If you want to limit the damage that could be done on your system, you might consider virtualization tools such as VirtualBox OSE, VMware, etc. instead of using chroot. I have

[sage-devel] Re: Starting R in Sage Chroot

2009-09-17 Thread Kay Wanous
I think I've narrowed it down a little bit more. Inside the chroot, root can run sage with R without errors. Looking at a diff of the straces, when root runs sage, it opens /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive but it doesn't if it's run as the sage user: Root - brk(0)