On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 2:29 AM, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2009/9/25 William Stein <wst...@gmail.com>: >> >> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:27 PM, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Can anyone tell me what this message means, in response to hg_sage.commit(): >>> >>> cd "/home/jcooley/sage-4.1.1/devel/sage" && hg diff | less >>> cd "/home/jcooley/sage-4.1.1/devel/sage" && hg commit >>> abort: journal already exists - run hg recover! >>> >>> And what to do about it? >>> >>> This is in a clone on which lots of edits have been made: >>> hg_sage.status() shows 8 modified files. >> >> I don't know what it means. But you might try doing what it says, >> name "- run hg recover!". >> I.e., >> >> cd /home/jcooley/sage-4.1.1/devel/sage >> hg recover >> >> and see what happens. > > OK, I did that. There were a huge number of weird warnings but it did > actually do a commit so that I could make a patch, and I'll apply that > to a new fresh clone (made by me) and carry on from there.
I saw *exactly* this same problem yesterday on my student's laptop, and he was just starting with a fresh Sage-4.1.1 download. So there is something systematically wrong, and I'm guessing it has to do with MANIFEST.in. William > > Thanks > > John > >> >> William >> >> > >> > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
