[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-28 Thread gsage
That is quite interesting. The problem in the faq indicated a potential filename problem. But that seems rather unlikely after you moved your $SAGE_ROOT to tmp. Any chance your username or hostname has any odd characters in it? I am thinking about anything that is not 7- bit ASCII. May

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-27 Thread gsage
I d/l the source and it compiled fine. However, Sage could not start maxima. Here's the error message from the command line: input sage: sqrt(4) output Timeout exceeded in read_nonblocking(). pexpect.spawn instance at 0xaeee448c version: 2.0 ($Revision: 1.151 $) command:

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-27 Thread William Stein
On 8/27/07, gsage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I d/l the source and it compiled fine. However, Sage could not start maxima. (1) Does the file SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp exist? (2) What happens if you do: sage: !maxima -p $SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp Does this happen? sage:

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-27 Thread gsage
(1) Does the file SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp exist? yes (2) What happens if you do: sage: !maxima -p $SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp sage: !maxima -p $SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp *** - invalid byte sequence #xC0 #x01 in CHARSET:UTF-8 conversion The following

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-27 Thread mabshoff
On Aug 28, 1:20 am, gsage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you do a pwd in $SAGE_ROOT and post the output here. Please also try moving $SAGE_ROOT to /tmp and try again. moved folder sage-2.8.2 to /tmp and did a pwd: input pwd output /tmp/sage-2.8.2 running sage in tmp produces same

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-25 Thread William Stein
On 8/25/07, gsage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using Kubuntu. I used the binary Sage to run. It all runs fine both cli browser, however, it fails to run Maxima. The error message is RuntimeError: Unable to start maxima. I can run maxima manually within the Sage folder. I'm assuming the

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-25 Thread gsage
On Aug 25, 2:28 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/25/07, gsage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using Kubuntu. I used the binary Sage to run. It all runs fine both cli browser, however, it fails to run Maxima. The error message is RuntimeError: Unable to start maxima. I

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-25 Thread William Stein
Could you please try this binary instead? http://sagemath.org/SAGEbin/linux/32bit/sage-2.8.2-OLD-32bit-i686-Linux.tar.gz On 8/25/07, gsage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 25, 2:28 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/25/07, gsage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using

[sage-support] Re: Sage won't start maxima

2007-08-25 Thread gsage
I tried dl/link (twice) - but the extraction failed (errors in the examples folder archive) I may try to compile the new version when I get a chance... thanks On Aug 25, 3:28 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please try this binary instead?