After 1/2 hour (!) I decided to interrupt the worksheet, quite the
notebook, quite sage, and then restart sage. Now when I try
os.system('mamga') it comes back right away with
Can't open Magma password file
.magmapass
256
However, I have no trouble starting magma from a terminal or from sage
in command line mode.
Victor
On May 28, 7:27 pm, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:15 PM, VictorMiller <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm in the notebook and I typed
>
> > os.system('magma')
>
> > It's now over 5 minutes, and it still hasn't come back! While I was
> > waiting I went a terminal and typed magma and it started within less
> > than a second.
> > Something weird.
>
> What about
>
> os.system('magma < /dev/null')
>
> William
>
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>
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>
> > Victor
>
> > On May 28, 6:55 pm, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:33 PM, VictorMiller <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> > More data: If I start sage and then type
>
> >> > !magma
>
> >> > it starts up Magma. I then exit from it (by typing "exit;") and start
> >> > the notebook.
>
> >> > However, if I try to run magma from the notebook, I get the message
>
> >> > "Type Error: unable to start magma"
>
> >> > What's going on?
>
> >> What happens if you do this on the command line:
>
> >> sage: magma.eval('2+2')
>
> >> What happens if you type this in a notebook cell:
>
> >> sage: os.system('magma')
>
> >> William
>
> >> > Victor
>
> >> > On May 28, 2:11 pm, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:03 AM, VictorMiller
> >> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> > I have magma and sage 4.4.1 installed on my macbook pro. I've made
> >> >> > sure that the magma command is on my PATH. Yet when I run sage, and I
> >> >> > try and call to magma.eval, it says that it can't find magma. This
> >> >> > has worked without problem on my linux workstation at work. So what
> >> >> > needs to be done to have sage find my installation of magma? The page
> >> >> >http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/interfaces/magma.html
> >> >> > doesn't say anything about this.
>
> >> >> > Victor
>
> >> >> Start sage and type
>
> >> >> sage: !magma
>
> >> >> What happens?
>
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