On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Felix Breuer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Great, that worked! I should have read the FAQ beforehand. Here is > what I did: > > sudo su > cd /usr/local/sage > rm spkg/installed/mpir* spkg/installed/atlas* > make > > > Let me see if I got this right: In principle the advantage of a > virtual machine is that from inside the environment looks the same, no > matter on which host the virtual machine is run. However for > performance reasons there are still some features of the host hardware > visible to the VM such as the CPU. As some packages inside Sage depend > on the CPU instruction set, it may thus be necessary to recompile them > when running the vm on a different host. Correct? >
Yes. And we consider this a bug, but nobody has yet found a fix (despite it being a major issue for about 2 years). William > Thanks, > Felix > > On 11 Okt., 21:20, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Felix Breuer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hello! >> >> > I am trying to run the VMWare image of Sage 4.1.1. I downloaded and >> > unzipped the image and ran it with the vmware player (under Windows 7) >> > but neither the notebook nor sage would launch. Logging in with >> > manage, these are the errors I get: >> >> > man...@sage:~$ notebook >> > [snip] >> > sh: cannot create notebook.log: Permission denied >> > echo: write error: Broken pipe >> >> > man...@sage:~$ sage >> > [snip] >> > /usr/local/sage/local/bin/sage-sage: line 199: 3722 Illegal >> > instruction sage-ipython "$@" -i >> >> > If I become root first before running either command, the result is >> > basically the same. The only difference is that running notebook does >> > not give any error message, it just returns to the prompt immediately. >> >> > Any suggestions? >> >> http://wiki.sagemath.org/faq#Otherquestions >> >> William > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
