On Sep 3, 2009, at 2:13 PM, john_perry_usm wrote:
> > Hi, > > A student encountered an error when running sage from the command line > on OSX 10.6. When she tries the command > > sage: point((3,3)) > > sage crashes and OS X gives the message, > > /Applications/sage/local/bin/sage-sage: line 199: 5436 Abort trap > sage-ipython "$@" -i > > sage does not crash when creating a point, only when trying to show > it, and only from the command line. This works fine for me in both 32 and 64-bit OS X 10.6. I.e., it definitely doesn't crash for me. Does the student have fink or Darwin Ports installed? Is there a /sw directory? Is /usr/local/ full of crud? That's my guess. > > In Linux, this works fine, and I realize this is OSX so maybe it > shouldn't work at all. She didn't try it before upgrading to 10.5, so > we were wondering if > > (1) this is expected behavior; > (2) if not, > (2a) does anyone else encounter this problem on OSX, or is her > computer bonkers? I vote for bonkers :-) > (2b) is there a possible fix? that is, is there a missing program that > sage is trying to call, but failing & thus crashing, so she can fix > this by installing the program? Sage just calls OS X's "Preview", which is standard (it's part of OS X). -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
