On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Aug 20, 11:25 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> > OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
>>
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> That line is surely relevant.  What happens
>> when you do
>>
>>    sudo sage
>>
>> from the command line, then try to use maxima from within sage?
>>
>> William
>>
>
> Thank you for your reply. Alas, I know almost nothing about unix, but
> I think I managed to do what you asked (please verify below!), and it
> seems it did not help:
>
> Last login: Wed Aug 20 21:18:32 on ttyp1
> Rafael-Nepomechies-computer:~ rafael$ sudo  /Users/rafael/Applications/
> sage/sage; exit
> Password:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> | SAGE Version 3.0.5, Release Date: 2008-07-11                       |
> | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.        |
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> sage: maxima('2+2')
> Timeout exceeded in read_nonblocking().
> <pexpect.spawn instance at 0xd829cd8>
> version: 2.0 ($Revision: 1.151 $)
> command: /Users/rafael/Applications/sage/maxima
> args: ['/Users/rafael/Applications/sage/maxima', '-p', '/Users/rafael/
> Applications/sage/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp']
> patterns:
>    \(\%i[0-9]+\)
> buffer (last 100 chars):
> before (last 100 chars): and, self.args)
>    425
>    426         # Parent
>
> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
> sage:
> after: <class 'pexpect.TIMEOUT'>
> match: None
> match_index: None
> exitstatus: None
> flag_eof: 0
> pid: 10016
> child_fd: 4
> timeout: 30
> delimiter: <class 'pexpect.EOF'>
> logfile: None
> maxread: 10000
> searchwindowsize: None
> delaybeforesend: 0
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call
> last)
>
> /Users/rafael/<ipython console> in <module>()
>
> /Users/rafael/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage/
> interfaces/maxima.py in __call__(self, x)
>    375     def __call__(self, x):
>    376         import sage.rings.all
> --> 377         return Expect.__call__(self, x)
>    378
>    379     def __init__(self, script_subdirectory=None, logfile=None,
> server=None,
>
> /Users/rafael/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage/
> interfaces/expect.py in __call__(self, x)
>    946             return x
>    947         if isinstance(x, basestring):
> --> 948             return cls(self, x)
>    949         try:
>    950             return self._coerce_from_special_method(x)
>
> /Users/rafael/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage/
> interfaces/expect.py in __init__(self, parent, value, is_name)
>   1215             except (TypeError, KeyboardInterrupt,
> RuntimeError, ValueError), x:
>   1216                 self._session_number = -1
> -> 1217                 raise TypeError, x
>   1218         self._session_number = parent._session_number
>   1219
>
> TypeError: Unable to start maxima
>
>
> Thanks again. Rafael.

I am 100% completely clueless at this point about what could be
causing this problem.  Sorry.

 -- William

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