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
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Dr Viv Kendon    http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv
tel: +44 113 343 4864      Physics and Astronomy
Quantum Information Group    University of Leeds


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