On 31 May 2017 at 10:43, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > On 2017-05-30 23:51, John H Palmieri wrote: >> >> I'm getting intermittent timeouts from src/sage/doctest/external.py, and >> in particular the "has_mathematica()" test. This is a new (but >> underpowered) computer and it does not have mathematica installed. If I >> run >> >> $ sage --sh >> $ math-readline >> >> then 19 out of 20 times, it fails immediately > > > Define "fails immediately". The fact that it only "fails immediately" 19 out > of 20 times means that the "fails immediately" is somehow non-trivial.
I tried this. First time it did actually start up Mathematica which was a surprise since I did not know that my office desktop had Mathematica on it... On a machine which certainly does not, I got the message expected (sage-sh) jec@lehner:sextics$ math-readline /bin/sh: 1: math: not found *but* after that the terminal was in a weird state, not echoing input, which I got out of by blindly typing "exit" which got me out of the Sage shell. Conclusion: even when there is no Mathematica something non-trivial and possibly bad is happening. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-release" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-release@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-release@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
