On Wednesday, November 16, 2011, Bill Janssen <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Could I really be the first user in this vast assemblage to have an
> NFS-mounted home directory?
>

No, many people do, eg all users of the sage.math devel cluster, our remote
build farm, etc.   Maybe your issues are Mac + NSF specific - that is a
less common combo.

> I tried building and installing sage with a local account, then just
> using it from my network account (which is the account I generally
> use).  Here's the error from *that*:
>
> /tilde/janssen 34 % /local/sage-4.7.2/sage
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Sage Version 4.7.2, Release Date: 2011-10-29                       |
> | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.        |
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> OSError                                   Traceback (most recent call
> last)
>
> /local/sage-4.7.2/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/
> ipmaker.pyc in force_import(modname, force_reload)
>     61         reload(sys.modules[modname])
>     62     else:
> ---> 63         __import__(modname)
>     64
>     65
>
> /Volumes/data/local/sage-4.7.2/local/bin/ipy_profile_sage.py in
> <module>()
>      5     preparser(True)
>      6
> ----> 7     import sage.all_cmdline
>      8     sage.all_cmdline._init_cmdline(globals())
>      9
>
> /local/sage-4.7.2/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/
> all_cmdline.py in <module>()
>     12 try:
>     13
> ---> 14     from sage.all import *
>     15     from sage.calculus.predefined import x
>     16     preparser(on=True)
>
> /local/sage-4.7.2/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/all.py in
> <module>()
>    319 # Cache the contents of star imports.
>    320 import sage.misc.lazy_import
> --> 321 sage.misc.lazy_import.save_cache_file()
>    322
>    323
>
> /local/sage-4.7.2/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/misc/
> lazy_import.so in sage.misc.lazy_import.save_cache_file (sage/misc/
> lazy_import.c:4503)()
>    815
>    816
> --> 817
>    818
>    819
>
> /local/sage-4.7.2/local/lib/python/shutil.pyc in move(src, dst)
>    262             rmtree(src)
>    263         else:
> --> 264             copy2(src, real_dst)
>    265             os.unlink(src)
>    266
>
> /local/sage-4.7.2/local/lib/python/shutil.pyc in copy2(src, dst)
>     98         dst = os.path.join(dst, os.path.basename(src))
>     99     copyfile(src, dst)
> --> 100     copystat(src, dst)
>    101
>    102 def ignore_patterns(*patterns):
>
> /local/sage-4.7.2/local/lib/python/shutil.pyc in copystat(src, dst)
>     75         os.chmod(dst, mode)
>     76     if hasattr(os, 'chflags') and hasattr(st, 'st_flags'):
> ---> 77         os.chflags(dst, st.st_flags)
>     78
>     79
>
> OSError: [Errno 45] Operation not supported: '/tilde/janssen/.sage/
> _Volumes_data_local_sage-4.7.2_devel_sage-main-
> lazy_import_cache.pickle'
> Error importing ipy_profile_sage - perhaps you should run %upgrade?
> WARNING: Loading of ipy_profile_sage failed.
>
> sage:
>
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-- 
William Stein
Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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