I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 as a guest VM inside VirtualBox 4.3.12, with Windows 7.1 Enterprise as the host OS. (This gives me access to my university's network, networked printers and drives etc, which are unreachable from linux). And in the middle of compling Sage 6.2 from source, while I was fiddling about with a webcam, the system crashed with the delightful, friendly BSOD. Back in linux, the error messages I received were
checking for the distutils Python package... no > configure: error: cannot import Python module "distutils". > Please check your Python installation. The error was: > sys:1: RuntimeWarning: not adding directory '' to sys.path since it's > writable by an untrusted group. > Untrusted users could put files in this directory which might then be > imported by your Python code. As a general precaution from similar > exploits, you should not execute Python code from this directory > make[3]: Entering directory > `/opt/sage-6.2/local/var/tmp/sage/build/pynac-0.3.2/src' > make[3]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. > make[3]: Leaving directory > `/opt/sage-6.2/local/var/tmp/sage/build/pynac-0.3.2/src' > Error building pynac. > > real 0m1.585s > user 0m0.254s > sys 0m0.159s > ************************************************************************ > Error installing package pynac-0.3.2 > ************************************************************************ > Please email sage-devel (http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel) > explaining the problem and including the relevant part of the log file > /opt/sage-6.2/logs/pkgs/pynac-0.3.2.log > Describe your computer, operating system, etc. > If you want to try to fix the problem yourself, *don't* just cd to > /opt/sage-6.2/local/var/tmp/sage/build/pynac-0.3.2 and type 'make' or > whatever is appropriate. > Instead, the following commands setup all environment variables > correctly and load a subshell for you to debug the error: > (cd '/opt/sage-6.2/local/var/tmp/sage/build/pynac-0.3.2' && > '/opt/sage-6.2/sage' --sh) > When you are done debugging, you can type "exit" to leave the subshell. > ************************************************************************ > make[2]: *** [/opt/sage-6.2/local/var/lib/sage/installed/pynac-0.3.2] > Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/sage-6.2/build' > make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/sage-6.2/build' > > real 0m2.256s > user 0m0.457s > sys 0m0.224s > *************************************************************** > Error building Sage. > > The following package(s) may have failed to build: > > package: pynac-0.3.2 > log file: /opt/sage-6.2/logs/pkgs/pynac-0.3.2.log > build directory: /opt/sage-6.2/local/var/tmp/sage/build/pynac-0.3.2 > I'm not sure if the errors were caused by the system crash, or are the fault of the system itself. But now that I've rebooted - how do I recover? Should I just throw everything away, and start from scratch? Thanks, Alasdair -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
