Hi
On 8 January 2015 at 07:27, Ivan Andrus <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 7, 2015, at 9:04 PM, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 7:57:36 PM UTC-5, Ruizhi Deng wrote: >> >> I'm a new comer to Sage and I'm running sage on my mac with OS X 10.10. I >> started sage successfully for the first time but I have trouble running >> sage after that. It constantly shows that Sage server failed to start. >> And here's the log information I find. It might be useful. >> > > Looks like the issues at > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-support/_Ly5eQ2E-10 and > originally reported in a different form at > http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/9873#comment:33 > > Ivan, any ideas for a long-term fix on this? This really should work > without having to do > > Terminal Session > Sage > then type notebook(). > > as suggested in that thread. > > > I was able to reproduce this by running it once and killing the Terminal > session that opened. I suppose this could happen e.g. if the user doesn’t > notice that a Terminal session was opened. > > From then on it will fail because the ~/.sage/sage_notebook.sagenb > directory already exists. Perhaps there’s something better that we can > check for? Perhaps ~/.sage/sage_notebook.sagenb/users.pickle would be > sufficient? It seems to not appear until the password has been > successfully created, whereas the directory is created before asking for a > password. > > In our computer lab of ~ 70 students I get about one zero sized users.pickl 2-3 times per week. (And one messed up conf.pickl once per month.) It would be great if it failed more gracefully. I'm thinking of putting a wrapper around our sagemath.desktop file to check for that zero size and if so delete it. What are the security implications? Regards, Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
