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

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