On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Justin C. Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, John, > > On Aug 17, 2011, at 08:22 , John Cremona wrote: > >> If I type browse_sage_doc('reference') into the command line (4.7.1, >> linux) it used to open the documentation in my already-running >> browser. But now it just dumps raw html to the screen, apparently the >> contents of a temp.html file. >> >> Is something broken in Sage or with me? > > I tried this on both 4.7 and 4.7.1 (Mac OS X, 10.6.8). Both versions behaved > the same: a browser window was opened, showing obscure commentary :-} >
OK so it's a problem at my end then. > Are you saying that it worked in previous versions of Sage, but not in 4.7.1? Yes (though not necessarily 4.7, I'll need to check). > Did anything change on your end? Not that I can think of. > New/different browser? No. but... > Is this on a self-contained system, or are you using something with a lot of > network-sourced apps? Yes. In particular it could well be a new version of firefox. I just tried the same on my mini Toshiba netbook + ubuntu 11.04 + sage-4.7, and got no output just the error message: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Advance (I have chrome running already, and am typing into it right now). One more mystery! John > > Justin > > -- > Justin C. Walker > Curmudgeon-at-large > Director > Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds > ---- > 186,000 Miles per Second > Not just a good idea: > it's the law! > ---- > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
