Actually, this behavior is so severe, I can't imagine it escaped the attention 
of testers.

I'm going to download sage 5.0 again, suspecting that my downloaded file is 
defective.

Please stand by...

Jim
On May 16, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Jim Clark wrote:

> Hello sage team.
> 
> I have just downloaded and installed Sage 5.0 on my system:
> 
> Mac OS X 10.6.8
> 
> I downloaded sage-5.0-OSX-64bit-10.6-x86_64-Darwin.dmg.
> 
> It keeps crashing and is unusable.
> 
> Here is a simple session:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Sage Version 5.0, Release Date: 2012-05-14                         |
> | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.        |
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> sage: # Feather parameters
> sage: L_lv = 1300    # length of leading vane in microns
> sage: L_tv = 2300    # length of trailing vane
> sage: L_tot = L_lv + L_tv
> sage: shaft_cenx = L_lv  # center of shaft
> sage: shaft_ceny = 0
> sage: R_shaft = 185  # radius of shaft
> sage: dx = 10        # nominal spacing between grid points
> sage: T_v1 = 10      # thickness of vane at edge
> sage: T_v2 = 20      # thickness near center
> sage: L_planar_lv = int(L_lv * .75)    # length of planar segment of vane
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Unhandled SIGILL: An illegal instruction occurred in Sage.
> This probably occurred because a *compiled* component of Sage has a bug
> in it and is not properly wrapped with sig_on(), sig_off(). You might
> want to run Sage under gdb with 'sage -gdb' to debug this.
> Sage will now terminate.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> /Applications/sage/spkg/bin/sage: line 312:  1513 Illegal instruction     
> sage-ipython "$@" -i
> logout
> 
> 
> I'm going to reinstall sage 4.8; I can't get any work done with 5.0.
> 
> Jim Clark

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