"\033[?1034h/var/tmp/sage-10.9/local/lib/gap/" is certainly looking bad,
and probably is the root of the problem.

No idea where it came from.



On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 9:52 PM Marc Culler <[email protected]> wrote:

> I deleted .sage/gap and tried again.  No change.
>
> I also tried
>    sage: libgap.eval('F:= FreeGroup(3)')
> That produces the same GAPError, but there was some other stuff printed
> before the traceback which might provide a clue:
>
> #I  gapdoc package is not available. Check that the name is correct
> #I  and it is present in one of the GAP root directories (see
> '??RootPaths')
> #I  GAP: needed package gapdoc cannot be loaded
> Error, failed to load needed package `gapdoc' (version >= 1.2)
> Syntax warning: Unbound global variable in
> /var/tmp/sage-10.9/local/share/gap/l\
> ib/init.g:728
>     ColorPrompt( UserPreference( "UseColorPrompt" ) );
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^
> Error, SetGasmanMessageStatus: function is not yet defined
> Error, Variable: 'L1_IMMUTABLE_ERROR' must have a value
> Error, Variable: 'ColorPrompt' must have a value
>
> I did find  some other suspicious stuff:
>
> sage: libgap.eval('GAPInfo.RootPaths')
> [ "/home/culler/.gap/", "\033[?1034h/var/tmp/sage-10.9/local/lib/gap/",
> "/var/tmp/sage-10.9/local/share/gap/" ]
>
> The last path contains an empty pkg directory.  The real pkg directory is
> in $SAGE_ROOT/local/lib/gap.  But I doubt that the second path would work
> correctly when it has all of those ANSI escape sequences in front of it.
> Adding a symlink /var/tmp/sage-10.9/local/share/gap/pkg ->
> ../../lib/gap/pkg did not help.  But maybe putting ANSI escape sequences in
> a root path makes GAP crash.
>
> - Marc
>
>
> - Marc
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 9:13 PM Dima Pasechnik <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The usual suspects for strange GAP errors are stale GAP workspaces (or
>> related to them errors). Make sure you don't have any (typically in
>> ~/.sage/, although your setup might have a different location of .sage/)
>>
>>
>>
>> On March 2, 2026 4:37:34 PM CST, Marc Culler <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, March 2, 2026 at 3:32:23 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> That's a problem with the pexpect GAP. Does
>>>
>>>     sage: libgap.FreeGroup(3)
>>>
>>> work?
>>>
>>>
>>> No.  I don't get a RuntimeError (which I think is produced by pexpect)
>>> but I get:
>>>
>>> GAPError: Error, FreeGroup: function is not yet defined
>>>
>>> Does
>>>
>>>    ./sage -t src/sage/features/gap.py
>>>
>>> pass?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes. I get:
>>>
>>> Doctesting 1 file.
>>> sage/src/bin/sage -t --warn-long 5.0
>>> --random-seed=206062923921806203470542245493080431476
>>> sage/src/sage/features/gap.py
>>>     [5 tests, 0.01s wall]
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> All tests passed!
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Total time for all tests: 0.2 seconds
>>>     cpu time: 0.0 seconds
>>>     cumulative wall time: 0.0 seconds
>>> Features detected for doctesting:
>>>
>>> - Marc
>>>
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