[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-28 Thread gsage
> That is quite interesting. The problem in the faq indicated a > potential filename problem. But that seems rather unlikely after you > moved your $SAGE_ROOT to tmp. Any chance your username or hostname has > any odd characters in it? I am thinking about anything that is not 7- > bit ASCII. May

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-27 Thread mabshoff
On Aug 28, 1:20 am, gsage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you do a "pwd" in $SAGE_ROOT and post the output here. Please also > > try moving $SAGE_ROOT to /tmp and try again. > > moved folder "sage-2.8.2" to /tmp and did a pwd: > > > pwd > > > /tmp/sage-2.8.2 > > running sage in tmp produces

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-27 Thread gsage
> Can you do a "pwd" in $SAGE_ROOT and post the output here. Please also > try moving $SAGE_ROOT to /tmp and try again. moved folder "sage-2.8.2" to /tmp and did a pwd: pwd /tmp/sage-2.8.2 running sage in tmp produces same error messages. I'll look further in the "non-utf chars" faq stuff.

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-27 Thread mabshoff
On Aug 27, 11:34 pm, gsage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (1) Does the file SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp exist? > > yes > > > (2) What happens if you do: > >sage: !maxima -p "$SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp" > > sage: !maxima -p "$SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp" > > *** -

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-27 Thread William Stein
On 8/27/07, gsage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > (1) Does the file SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp exist? > yes > > > (2) What happens if you do: > >sage: !maxima -p "$SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp" > > > sage: !maxima -p "$SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp" > > *** - inva

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-27 Thread gsage
> (1) Does the file SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp exist? yes > (2) What happens if you do: >sage: !maxima -p "$SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp" sage: !maxima -p "$SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp" *** - invalid byte sequence #xC0 #x01 in CHARSET:UTF-8 conversion The follo

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-27 Thread William Stein
On 8/27/07, gsage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I d/l the source and it compiled fine. However, Sage could not start > maxima. > (1) Does the file SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp exist? (2) What happens if you do: sage: !maxima -p "$SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp" Does this happen

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-27 Thread gsage
I d/l the source and it compiled fine. However, Sage could not start maxima. Here's the error message from the command line: sage: sqrt(4) Timeout exceeded in read_nonblocking(). version: 2.0 ($Revision: 1.151 $) command: /home/myhome/Desktop/sage-2.8.2/local/bin/maxima args: ['/home/myhome/

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-26 Thread William Stein
On 8/25/07, gsage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried dl/link (twice) - but the extraction failed (errors in the > examples folder archive) > > I may try to compile the new version when I get a chance... > thanks > Compiling from source should be very straightforward -- you just download the tar

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-25 Thread gsage
I tried dl/link (twice) - but the extraction failed (errors in the examples folder archive) I may try to compile the new version when I get a chance... thanks On Aug 25, 3:28 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you please try this binary instead? > > http://sagemath.org/SAGEbi

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-25 Thread William Stein
Could you please try this binary instead? http://sagemath.org/SAGEbin/linux/32bit/sage-2.8.2-OLD-32bit-i686-Linux.tar.gz On 8/25/07, gsage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Aug 25, 2:28 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/25/07, gsage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-25 Thread gsage
On Aug 25, 2:28 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/25/07, gsage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm using Kubuntu. I used the binary Sage to run. It all runs fine > > both cli & browser, however, it fails to run Maxima. > > > The error message is "RuntimeError: Unable to

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-25 Thread William Stein
On 8/25/07, gsage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using Kubuntu. I used the binary Sage to run. It all runs fine > both cli & browser, however, it fails to run Maxima. > > The error message is "RuntimeError: Unable to start maxima". > > I can run maxima manually within the Sage folder. I'm assu