William, My machine- CPU: AMD Athalon XP 1800+ (1.53 GHz) OS: XP SP2 (I have kept the patches up to date) Mother board: A-K7T3 Ultra-2 MSI Memory: 1.00 GB RAM
I did re-unzip sage-vmware-3.0.1.zip I think I know the general source of my problems----The Firefox notebook does not work unless I am on the internet. Firefox could not find the notebook server (http://192.168.70.128) unless I was logged on to the internet. I did an experiment. I got Sage working while I was on the internet and everything worked fine. I logged off the internet and Sage stopped working. I logged back on and Sage still would not work. While I was still on the internet I closed the VM and restarted Sage. It still did not work. I imagine I would have to reboot in order to get Sage working again. I have a dial-up connection. (I downloaded Sage elsewhere!) Sage is not going to work for me if I must be online in order to use it. Admittedly, the problem may be due to my older machine. >You undoubtedly tried to upgrade() the machine then somehow messed it up along the way. I did not try to upgrade() the VM. I just downloaded the VM and sage- vmware-3.0.1.zip the other day. Documentation suggestions: (1) If it is true that the computer must be on the internet in order for Sage and/or the VM to work it should be clearly noted in the documentation. (2) Even if Sage/Firefox notebook generally does not require the internet, the documentation for those Sage functions that do should indicate as much. Case in point: http://sagemath.org/SAGEbin/microsoft_windows/README.txt, USING SAGE, bullet 3. The "optional_packages()" function obviously will not work unless there is an internet connection, as the list of optional_packages() is on your website. There is no indication in bullet 3 that an internet connection is required. Travis On May 14, 10:01 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 Washingtonhttp://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@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-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
