On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Alex Lara <lrodr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there, > > I suppose it has to be with permissions. Sage is installed at my home > directory. If a run sage as a root (su and then ./sage) maxima > works!!! But if only run sage with sudo ./sage it does'nt. > > Do you have an idea why is that?
That could also be exactly what Dan and I said -- a funny filename character issue, which you don't see was root since root has different files in root's PATH. William > > ---Alex > > On Mar 6, 8:21 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> wrote: >> > On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 at 10:45PM -0800, Alex Lara wrote: >> >> > What do you get when you run "sage -maxima"? >> >> >> > --Mike >> >> >> I got this: >> >> >> *** - invalid byte #xC3 in CHARSET:ASCII conversion >> >> Break 1 [4]> >> >> > I am totally guessing here, but is there a non-ascii character somewhere >> > in the path to your Sage install, or in your shell's $PATH? >> >> That's a good guess. There is a known major bug in Maxima + clisp where >> it totally fails to work if there are certain non-ascii characters in the >> filenames in the current directory or PATH. I can't wait until clisp isn't >> in Sage. >> >> >> >> >> >> > Dan >> >> > -- >> > --- Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> >> > ----- KAIST Department of Mathematical Sciences >> > ------- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake >> >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) >> >> > iEYEARECAAYFAkmw7fAACgkQr4V8SljC5Lp5YwCfe+WRYLfaH6suwEKaL4TlorOb >> > 23sAnjZMePg3aYtcBumhxsngrICzeOXW >> > =WCyC >> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> -- >> William Stein >> Associate Professor of Mathematics >> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
