For the record, this error happened on this input in the Sage notebook: macaulay2(3+3)
Output: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "_sage_input_12.py", line 10, in <module> File "", line 1, in <module> File "/private/var/folders/cv/7xrxzsjn3l97gl39p44zvkfw0000gn/T/tmp62dvzq/___code___.py", line 3, in <module> exec compile(u'macaulay2(_sage_const_3 +_sage_const_3 ) File "", line 1, in <module> File "/Applications/Sage-5.3-OSX-64bit-10.6.app/Contents/Resources/sage/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/interface.py", line 197, in __call__ return self._coerce_from_special_method(x) File "/Applications/Sage-5.3-OSX-64bit-10.6.app/Contents/Resources/sage/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/interface.py", line 223, in _coerce_from_special_method return (x.__getattribute__(s))(self) File "sage_object.pyx", line 591, in sage.structure.sage_object.SageObject._macaulay2_ (sage/structure/sage_object.c:6559) File "sage_object.pyx", line 439, in sage.structure.sage_object.SageObject._interface_ (sage/structure/sage_object.c:4129) File "/Applications/Sage-5.3-OSX-64bit-10.6.app/Contents/Resources/sage/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/interface.py", line 195, in __call__ return cls(self, x, name=name) File "/Applications/Sage-5.3-OSX-64bit-10.6.app/Contents/Resources/sage/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/expect.py", line 1330, in __init__ raise TypeError, x TypeError: Unable to start macaulay2 because the command 'M2 --no-debug --no-readline --silent -e 'ZZ#{Standard,Core#"private dictionary"#"InputPrompt"} = lineno -> "_EGAS_ : ";ZZ#{Standard,Core#"private dictionary"#"InputContinuationPrompt"} = lineno -> "_EGAS_ : ";printWidth = 0;lineNumber = 10^9;'' failed. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support?hl=en.