Hi folks. I tried to send the following email a few hours ago (but I put the email address in wrong) and I don't feel like rewriting it all. So I should add to it now that I have upgraded sage (so I am running 2.8.8.1) and the error still occurs.
Perhaps I should open a ticket for this, but perhaps I should also wait to see it anyone else can duplicate this problem. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi all. I apologize for not upgrading to the latest version of sage before writing this email, but I didn't see any tickets about this on the since 2.8.7.2, so perhaps no one else has had this problem. (And I am upgrading now, but if I don't send this email now, I might forget about it for a few days). Anyway, the following takes place on a Intel Core Duo (not Core 2, so just 32 bits) newly upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10, and running sage 2.8.7.2. Briefly, plot().show() isn't working for me. After looking into the problem a little bit, I modified the code for show() so that it would print out the command line that it was using, along with any errors. I get the following: sage: f(x) = x*exp(-4*x) sage: P = f.plot() sage: P.show() xdg-open /home/bober/.sage//temp/bober/11314//tmp_0.png & sage: eog: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: gzopen64 So there is some sort of library problem. But if I execute the same command from a plain shell: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xdg-open /home/bober/.sage//temp/bober/11314//tmp_0.png eog opens the file just fine. So it seems that sage is somehow screwing up library search paths, or perhaps when eog is run from within sage it is trying to use some libraries that sage provides and some libraries that Ubuntu provides, and those libraries don't play nice together. Or something like that is going on. plot().show() also does not work anymore for me when running sage 2.8.2, and it certainly used to before I upgraded Ubuntu, so it is probably safe to assume that it is getting the same error, and that this error was caused by the upgrade. (I haven't actually taken the time to verify that eog gives the same library error when run from 2.8.2, however.) This is probably beyond my ability to debug any further without spending many hours, so hopefully someone knows how to fix this easily, or can at least point me in the right direction. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
