On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 5:07 PM, VictorMiller <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
OK, then I'm stumped. I don't understand the mysteries of Magma's proprietary copy protection. William > > 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > 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? >> >> >> >> > -- >> >> >> > 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 >> >> >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support >> >> >> > URL:http://www.sagemath.org >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> William Stein >> >> >> Professor of Mathematics >> >> >> University of Washingtonhttp://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 >> >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support >> >> > URL:http://www.sagemath.org >> >> >> -- >> >> William Stein >> >> Professor of Mathematics >> >> University of Washingtonhttp://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 >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support >> > URL:http://www.sagemath.org >> >> -- >> William Stein >> Professor of Mathematics >> University of Washingtonhttp://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 > -- William Stein 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
