On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> William,
>
> I'm impressed that you take the time to answer all these emails.
>
> Well I eventually did get the notebook and command line Sage to work
> for a while.
>
> I managed to crash sage a few times with commands from the Tutorial
> such as the linear algebra command kernel() and the matplotlib command
> 'show()'. I believe it was sage that crashed because calculations were
> no longer carried out in the notebook. When I crashed it from the
> Vmware command line I was not able to recover. Restarting Sage does
> not help because Vmware takes me to its last state, which is a dollar
> sign prompt. when I type 'notebook' at the prompt I get the standard
> message followed by,
>
> "sh: cannot create notebook.log: Permission denied"
> "echo: write error: Broken pipe"
>
> If I type 'sage' at the $ prompt I get about 20 or 30 lines of text
> (which I can't copy and paste) followed by the prompt,
>
> <ERROR: name 'sage_prompt' is not defined>
You undoubtedly tried to upgrade() the machine then somehow messed it
up along the way.
>
> Is there a way to reset the Vmware state?
You could unzip the original sage-vmware.zip file that you downloaded.
Or download a new version of sage.
> Why are certain commands found in the Tutorial such as kernel() and
> show() causing Sage to crash?
It's possible that your computer has a processor that is very old, and
the binary build of Sage included in the vmware image doesn't
support your computer.
I'm working on getting a very old computer setup to build vmware images
that will work on an even wider class of machines...
What is the exact model of your machine.
> Unless there is a quick fix I may just have to wait until I have a
> Linux system or partition before trying Sage, because this Vmware
> approach is not working well for me and is taking too much time.
You could download a new vmware image from here if you
have a fast net connection:
http://sagemath.org/SAGEbin/microsoft_windows/
The sage-vmware-3.0.1.b.zip version has a full latex install
included, which is a nice bonus. Also, I've explicitly disabled
the upgrade() function, so you won't use upgrade by accident.
>
> Travis
>
> On May 13, 11:12 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > My problem is very similar to Aaron's
>>
>> > I downloaded Sage 3.01 for windows (XP). If I
>> > start up in vmware, log in, and type "notebook", the following
>> > displays:
>>
>> Do you log in, then type notebook as you say above? Or do you type
>>
>> login: notebook
>>
>> at the login prompt?
>>
>> William
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> > Open Firefox to the addresshttp://192.168.83.128
>> > It may take up to about 10 seconds for the server to start. Press
>> > Refresh.
>> > (Click here and press control-C twice to stop the notebook server
>>
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------
>> > sh: cannot create notebook.log: Permission denied
>> > echo: write error: Broken pipe
>>
>> > At this point, it puts me back at the command prompt.
>>
>> > What part of the installation instructions am I missing?
>>
>> > Thanks, Travis
>>
>> --
>> William Stein
>> Associate Professor of Mathematics
>> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org
>
> >
>
--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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