On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 8/1/12 12:14 AM, Viv Kendon wrote: > > <snip> > >>>> Many thanks for the help, it all built and installed without further >>>> problems (bundle-maxima-x11). xmaxima appears to work fine, but >>>> wxmaxima cannot start/connect to the server no matter what I've tried to >>>> reconfigure. It looks OK apart from that, but obviously I can't test it >>>> very much in its serverless state. I can't get any more useful debug >>>> messages out of it either. >>> >>> I've tried checking the maxima mailing list archives on this issue, too, >>> but nothing jumped out at me. >>> >>> wxmaxima-mac gives me the following processes: >>> >>> $ wxmaxima >>> $ ps ax | grep maxima >>> 18126 ?? U 0:00.47 >>> /sw/Applications/wxMaxima.app/Contents/MacOS/wxmaxima -psn_0_3961799 >>> 18154 ?? S 0:00.11 /sw/opt/sbcl-1.0.57/lib/sbcl/sbcl --core >>> /sw/lib/maxima/5.27.0/binary-sbcl/maxima.core --noinform >>> --end-runtime-options --eval (cl-user::run) --end-toplevel-options -r >>> :lisp (setup-client 4010) >>> 18172 s001 S+ 0:00.00 grep maxima >>> >>> Maybe wxmaxima isn't waiting long enough to connect in the gtk case. >> >> I get only >> >> ps ax | grep maxima >> 64767 ?? S 0:00.64 >> /sw/Applications/wxMaxima.app/Contents/MacOS/wxmaxima -psn_0_10295761 >> 64802 s000 R+ 0:00.00 grep maxima >> >> and I see nothing appear even transiently when I try "restart Maxima" >> from the Maxima menu. I don't think the right comands are even getting >> as far as the OS. Could it be using the wrong command to exec >> something? A linux only one perhaps? How does the mac version launch >> Maxima compared to the x11 version? >> > Had a little time to look into this: > > The commands _do_ get to the OS. I had a GTK wxMaxima window open and I > ran "sudo fs_usage | grep bin/maxima in a terminal window to catch any > invocations of /sw/bin/maxima. When I tried to restart it from > wxMaxima, I got: > > $ sudo fs_usage | grep bin/maxima > Password: > 14:38:33 execve /sw/bin/maxima > 0.000520 wxmaxima.bin > 14:38:33 open /sw/bin/maxima > 0.000014 sh > 14:40:51 execve /sw/bin/maxima > 0.000332 wxmaxima.bin > 14:40:51 open /sw/bin/maxima > 0.000006 sh > > i.e. wxMaxima would try to launch maxima, but it would die. > > However, restarting maxima from wxMaxima hasn't worked for the recent > GTK versions for me in any case. > > Up until recently, I had to restart wxMaxima over and over, and > eventually it would start up in communication with an instance of > maxima, but now even that doesn't work. > > I've discontinued wxmaxima-gtk until I find a fix to make it work at > least part of the time.
OK, I'll keep an eye out for an update appearing at some point... many thanks, -- Viv ________________________________________________ Dr Viv Kendon http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv tel: +44 113 343 4864 Physics and Astronomy Quantum Information Group University of Leeds ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
