Hello, Thank you very much for pointing out the section of the previous post that resolves this issue. I renamed the .maxima directory to something else (.old_maxima) and now SAGE works perfectly.
Best Regards, David On Feb 23, 10:56 am, mabshoff <[email protected] dortmund.de> wrote: > On Feb 23, 10:42 am, mark mcclure <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Feb 23, 1:17 pm, dr <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am considering using SAGE for instruction in the classroom for come > > > courses. However, I use an OS 10.5 Intel Mac for preparing materials > > > and want to have a local installation of SAGE to work on worksheets > > > for class and to have as backup in case the server is ever down or I > > > have limited network access in class. > > > > However, I downloaded and installed SAGE 3.2.3 as instructed and > > > followed the previous posts on this forum regarding a common runtime > > > error: "Unable to start maxima". Has anyone resolved this issue? > > > This looks like the issue I was having and Michael Abshoff fixed it > > in the latest release, which is 3.3. > > Nope, so far I only opened a ticket :) > > > I don't think that will be > > released > > in binary but the source code is available, if you can build it. > > Supposedly, 3.4 will be out soon. > > Yes, but I doubt either one will help here. The issue has not been > fixed yet, but you can read the whole story at > > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/e7f7dd... > > This is probably the same issue Mark reported at the end of that > thread. To quote his solution [you can ignore the bit about the app > bundle since it does not apply to 3.2.3]: > > [quote] > I finally got Sage.app working. Still there seems > something a bit odd about the fix. I had, in my home > directory, a .maxima directory with a file named > maxima-init.mac that sets certain maxima preferences. > Once I deleted this file, everything worked fine. As I > understand it though, the sage directory is supposed to be > independent of the rest of the system. Evidently, the > latest version of sage is reading information from my > home directory. My old sage (v3.0.1) runs fine without > removing the file, however. > The two lines in the maxima-init file were exactly the > following: > > set_plot_option([gnuplot_term, aqua]); > set_plot_option([gnuplot_pipes_term, aqua]); > > Of course, now I can no longer plot from my standalone > copy of maxima. :) > [end quote] > > So if you have such a custom Maxima file you might consider moving it > out of the way and try again. > > If this does not work for you please post the output from > > ./sage -maxima > > to debug this further. > > It would also be a good idea to check that the binary you downloaded > is indeed the OSX 10.5 one and not the 10.4, even though the 10.4 > binary tends to also work on 10.5. > > > Mark McClure > > Cheers, > > Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
