Re: [Fink-users] TeXmacs and Maxima
I have i maxima5.9.0.0-2 Symbol manipulation program i texmacs 1.0.1.14-1 TeX-based WYSIWYG editor same as you. Fink was updated pretty recently, but I'm not sure why that would be relevant since I have the same code for these programs. I use Apple's X11, again not sure how that is relevant, though it is a better candidate for an error. I'm currently updating to 10.2.6... I guess one of these things must be relevant, otherwise it would work for me, right? One question is: what (bad) URL is being passed at the startup of Maxima? It seems like it would be good to rewrite url.cc (or whatever uses the functions there) to print out the url that are being passed... like this: Fatal error: bad url 'http://fnik.sourceforge.net' in 'complete' See file : url.cc Then I could at least track down the bad URL and attempt to repair it. Another question is: why are URLs being passed around anyway? Joe On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Michèle Garoche wrote: Le dimanche, 1 juin 2003, à 09:58 Europe/Paris, Joe Corneli a écrit : Hello -- I tried to use Maxima in TeXmacs and got this (fatal) error. Which version of texmacs, which version of MacOSX, under Apple's X11 or Xfree86 and which version. Do you update fink via cvs or not? I use Fink's unstable tree and It works fine (Mac OS 10.2.6) under Xfree86 with those versions: i texmacs 1.0.1.14-1 TeX-based WYSIWYG editor i maxima 5.9.0.0-2Symbol manipulation program i xfree86 4.3.0-2 XFree86 distribution i xfree86-shlibs 4.3.0-2 XFree86 distribution Michèle http://micmacfr.homeunix.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 ___ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] TeXmacs and Maxima
Joe Corneli wrote: Another question is: why are URLs being passed around anyway? Texmacs treats any address, local path or net address, as url. You have one that it cannot interpret. Let's look at the usual suspects: You don't have a partition name or path name containing a space or some other weird character, do you? -- Martin --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 ___ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] TeXmacs and Maxima
Le dimanche, 1 juin 2003, à 22:48 Europe/Paris, Joe Corneli a écrit : I have i maxima5.9.0.0-2 Symbol manipulation program i texmacs 1.0.1.14-1 TeX-based WYSIWYG editor same as you. Fink was updated pretty recently, but I'm not sure why that would be relevant since I have the same code for these programs. I use Apple's X11, again not sure how that is relevant, though it is a better candidate for an error. I've tried it with X11 too, and it works. Did you try it with a new document? I mean, just launch TeXmacs and click on the session icon? (that the way I tried it). And, I've also tried it with a tm file stored in a directory with a space in the url, and it works too. Michèle http://micmacfr.homeunix.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 ___ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] TeXmacs and Maxima
Here is the path. /sw/share/Geomview/bin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/joe:/usr/X11R6/bin:/Users/joe/bin/:/usr/local/bin/ So that's probably ok. But my computer's name (aka hard drive's name) is Deep Black 0.02 --- maybe this is what is causing the problem. Maybe it's time to update the name to diderot or cauliflower or alice or something like that. So many fun names to choose from. It seems a bit ironic (give the context and the reason I chose the name) that Deep Black 0.02 would cause trouble for TeXmacs and Maxima! This is the only thing on my computer that I can think of with weird characters in it. Basically everything else that could possibly be relevant was set up by Fink. (But like I said in my earlier message, it would be good if TeXmacs included the bad URL in the text of its error message, this would allow me to be sure.) Would my computer's name actually come up in TeXmacs? To me that seems a bit odd, but I'll try changing the name and maybe that will help. Joe On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Martin Costabel wrote: Joe Corneli wrote: Another question is: why are URLs being passed around anyway? Texmacs treats any address, local path or net address, as url. You have one that it cannot interpret. Let's look at the usual suspects: You don't have a partition name or path name containing a space or some other weird character, do you? -- Martin --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 ___ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] TeXmacs and Maxima
Ok, my computer's name is now wonderland...
Here is another guess about what is causing the problem,
this thing looks a little mangled.
% env
*snip*
TEXMF={/sw/share/lilypond/1.6.6,{/Users/joe/Library/texmf,!!/sw/share/texmf.local,!!/sw/share/texmf.os,!!/sw/share/texmf}}
Might this be another candidate? Suggested revisions?
Note that I haven't tried rebooting since changing the computer's name yet
(I noted no success in trial)...
Joe
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Martin Costabel wrote:
Joe Corneli wrote:
Another question is: why are URLs being passed around anyway?
Texmacs treats any address, local path or net address, as url. You
have one that it cannot interpret. Let's look at the usual suspects: You
don't have a partition name or path name containing a space or some
other weird character, do you?
--
Martin
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Re: [Fink-users] TeXmacs and Maxima
Rebooting didn't help. I observed something kind of weird, maybe this will help you track down the problem: when I start TeXmacs in my home directory (/Users/joe/) and then click on the Maxima button, nothing happens except the crash. When I start it in the root directory (/), the CLISP logo (in black) and the first command prompt (in red) show up briefly before TeXmacs crashes. Joe On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Martin Costabel wrote: Joe Corneli wrote: Another question is: why are URLs being passed around anyway? Texmacs treats any address, local path or net address, as url. You have one that it cannot interpret. Let's look at the usual suspects: You don't have a partition name or path name containing a space or some other weird character, do you? -- Martin --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 ___ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] TeXmacs and Maxima
Found it. It is a weird bug in texmacs (so weird that is probably a feature, not a bug). I am cross-posting to texmacs-users so that we get experts' opinion about this, too. I found it, because I was getting the same crash now on a newly installed machine, whereas I haven't ever seen it before. Joe Corneli wrote: Hello -- I tried to use Maxima in TeXmacs and got this (fatal) error. % texmacs [1] 22569 [Small03]% TeXmacs] Loading ecrm11 at 300 dpi [etc] TeXmacs] Starting session 'default' TeXmacs] Launching 'maxima' via tm_maxima TeXmacs] Loading cmr10 at 600 dpi Fatal error: bad url in 'complete' See file : url.cc The reason for the crash is that the 'url' in question is empty. It is supposed to be the list of paths to the file maxima_toc.html. You do have this file, but texmacs does not see it, because it uses 'locate' to locate it, and your locate database was not updated after the installation of maxima. To test this theory: Run locate maxima_toc.html. My guess is that the output is empty, but that the file nevertheless exists at /sw/share/maxima/5.9.0/doc/html/maxima_toc.html. So the remedy is simple: Run sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb, wait 10 minutes (could be faster) until it is finished, and all will be well. This actually poses a bigger problem: The locate database has a tendency to not be up to date, because in the best case it is updated once a day, and on laptops typically it is never updated at all unless locate.updatedb is started manually. Now since texmacs uses locate to find all kinds of files, pixmaps, TeX font maps, and apparently also documentation, it is inevitable that it will make mistakes. The only safe way to start texmacs would be to run locate.updatedb before *every* start of texmacs. This is, of course, unacceptable. -- Martin --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 ___ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] TeXmacs and Maxima
Martin Costabel wrote: [] This actually poses a bigger problem: The locate database has a tendency to not be up to date, because in the best case it is updated once a day, Correction: once a week. On MacOSX it is in /etc/weekly. On linux (redhat), it is in /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron, so it is daily, but this is not much better. -- Martin --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 ___ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
locate (was Re: [Fink-users] TeXmacs and Maxima)
To test this theory: Run locate maxima_toc.html. My guess is that the output is empty, but that the file nevertheless exists at /sw/share/maxima/5.9.0/doc/html/maxima_toc.html. Yes, you are right on both counts. So the remedy is simple: Run sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb, wait 10 minutes (could be faster) until it is finished, and all will be well. This actually poses a bigger problem: The locate database has a tendency to not be up to date, because in the best case it is updated once a day, and on laptops typically it is never updated at all unless locate.updatedb is started manually. Now since texmacs uses locate to find all kinds of files, pixmaps, TeX font maps, and apparently also documentation, it is inevitable that it will make mistakes. The only safe way to start texmacs would be to run locate.updatedb before *every* start of texmacs. This is, of course, unacceptable. Thank you for the fix. (Yep, it worked, and please feel free to forward this part of my message to the texmacs group if you think it they need to know.) Earlier today (well, yesterday) I was wondering why configure (as in ./configure) doesn't alway use locate to find things it needs. (Which might be handy, e.g. for people who use Fink but who want to install non-Fink software, since it would avoid the need to pass in -I/sw/include or whatever.) Alternatively (but similarly) one might think autoconf would work better to build the configuration files (again by using locate). But no, one has to find the files oneself using locate, then pass the correct directories in using flags. Which is certainly tedious. Perhaps the non-up-to-dateness of the locate database is one rationale for doing things this way, but it doesn't seem like a very good rationale, since one could at least _try_ to do locate, then default to something else, and leave the user no worse off than they would be with the current set-up. One last thing about locate: I was beginning to feel like it was getting a bit threadbare... now I know why. I really should be running this locate.updatedb thing about once a week. Is anyone out there doing this with anacron? So far I haven't been able to get anacron working... is there a step-by-step tutorial for this out there somewhere? For one reason or another, the man pages haven't been sufficient for me... Joe --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 ___ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] TeXmacs and Maxima
Le dimanche, 1 juin 2003, à 09:58 Europe/Paris, Joe Corneli a écrit : Hello -- I tried to use Maxima in TeXmacs and got this (fatal) error. Which version of texmacs, which version of MacOSX, under Apple's X11 or Xfree86 and which version. Do you update fink via cvs or not? I use Fink's unstable tree and It works fine (Mac OS 10.2.6) under Xfree86 with those versions: i texmacs 1.0.1.14-1 TeX-based WYSIWYG editor i maxima 5.9.0.0-2Symbol manipulation program i xfree86 4.3.0-2 XFree86 distribution i xfree86-shlibs 4.3.0-2 XFree86 distribution Michèle http://micmacfr.homeunix.org/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 ___ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
