Thanks, William! Unfortunately, this did not solve the issue. I am still 
getting the message "TypeError: Unable to start maxima".

Stan

William Stein wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Stan Schymanski <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Did the upgrade still work for you?
>> Mine ended normally, but if I start the notebook and want to do
>> something, I get the message that maxima could not be started. I'll have
>> to compile from source (again).
>>     
>
> Try forcing rebuilding of the maxima spkg.
>
>  sage -f maxima-5.19.1.p0
>
> William
>
>
>   
>> Cheers
>> Stan
>>
>> Minh Nguyen wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Stan,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Stan Schymanski <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> I compiled sage 4.2 from source on my Macbook Pro with OSX 10.4.11 and
>>>> when I tried sage -upgrade, I was asked to enter a commit message. I
>>>> aborted (by typing :q) and the upgrade is continuing now, but this
>>>> does not seem normal. Did anyone else experience something similar?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Yes. I was asked to enter a commit message because the README file has
>>> changed. I suspect that the executable bits have changed. The README
>>> file should have no executable bits.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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