On Saturday, August 6, 2011, Jacob Schlather <[email protected]>
wrote:
>>It sounds like your copy of Sage is incorrectly installed.  It would
>>be helpful to provide tons of useful information about
>>your sage install.
>
> This is entirely probable.  I unzipped the sage-4.7-linux-64bit-
> ubuntu_10.04.1_lts-x86_64-Linux,
> into a folder and have been using the pre-compiled binary. I'm
> currently running 64 bit Ubuntu 10.10 - Maverick. I am running python
> 2.6.6 though, which could possibly be an issue. Sorry about the
> inconvenient form of the matrix, I had just grabbed the output. And
> I'm also segfaulting if I just do a random matrix (such as your
> example). So it's definitely an issue with my install or that I'm
> still running python 2.6.6. Perhaps updating to 3.0 will fix it.

Your systemwide python is irrelevant.    Try building sage from source.

>
> On Aug 6, 3:05 am, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Jacob Schlather
>>
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'm having a bit of a strange issue, I'm working on something where I
>> > need to find the rank of a somewhat large matrix over a finite field.
>> > I recall testing sage's capabilities when I was looking at how I was
>> > going to take the rank and remember sage taking the rank of matrices
>> > much larger than the one that's giving me trouble. Anyway the matrix
>> > I'm having an issue with is in the following file
>> >https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_KM7xCfSwolYmQ4YTEzYjItYTNiZC00MTAx...
>> > .
>>
>> It is an interesting exercise just to load that matrix into Sage,
>> given the way you provided it.
>> It would have been much nicer to provide a link to a pickle, or
>> sage_input, or convert
>> the matrix to a list first or something.  Anyway, after downloading
>> your matrix, I can make the
>> corresponding Sage matrix as follows, I think:
>>
>> sage: a = open('Matrix.dat').readlines()[1:]
>> sage: a =
''.join(open('Matrix.dat').readlines()[1:]).replace('[','').replace(']\n','
,').replace('
>> ',',')
>> sage: m = matrix(GF(5), 255,121, eval('['+a+']'))
>>
>> I then try to compute the rank, and it seems to give me the answer
instantly:
>>
>> sage: time m.rank()
>> 121
>> Time: CPU 0.01 s, Wall: 0.01 s
>>
>> The answer seems very reasonable, since it would be the answer for a
>> random matrix of that size.
>> But who knows, maybe I read your matrix in incorrectly.
>>
>> > The program works like a charm for matrices of smaller sizes, during
>> > this run it will get up to around size 381*70 before crashing. If I'm
>> > working over GF(7) then it's segfaulting for a matrix the size of 180
>> > x 116. It's possible that the error is somehow hidden in my program,
>>
>> sage: a = random_matrix(GF(7), 180, 116)
>> sage: time a.rank()
>> 116
>> Time: CPU 0.00 s, Wall: 0.00 s
>>
>> It sounds like your copy of Sage is incorrectly installed.  It would
>> be helpful to provide tons of useful information about
>> your sage install.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > in the off chance I've uploaded it here as well
>> >https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_KM7xCfSwolY2UxNDA4OGQtZTJhZS00ZDBl...
>> > . The offending inputs would be
>> > Lambda(5,5,5,1)  and Lambda(7,4,7,1), of course increase the majority
>> > of those values will also give the same error.
>>
>> > The error message I'm getting is:
>>
>> > RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call
>> > last)
>>
>> > /media/Media/Sage/sage-4.7-linux-64bit-ubuntu_10.04.1_lts-x86_64-Linux/
>> > <ipython console> in <module>()
>>
>> > /media/Media/Sage/sage-4.7-linux-64bit-ubuntu_10.04.1_lts-x86_64-Linux/
>> > <string> in Lambda(q, m, k, r)
>>
>> > /media/Media/Sage/sage-4.7-linux-64bit-ubuntu_10.04.1_lts-x86_64-Linux/
>> > local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/matrix/matrix_modn_dense.so in
>> > sage.matrix.matrix_modn_dense.Matrix_modn_dense.rank (sage/matrix/
>> > matrix_modn_dense.c:11595)()
>>
>> > RuntimeError: Segmentation fault
>>
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