Roland,
Thanks for the suggestion; I'll go the VMplayer route. It's too bad,
really. I try to use FOSS whenever possible. Any idea what causes
this problem?
Josh
On Aug 11, 10:16 pm, Rolandb wrote:
> On 11 aug, 22:36, Josh wrote:
>
>
>
> > This is probably completely noobish of me, but I really need help
> > solving the following problem (which has now occurred for the second
> > time). First, the setup:
>
> > Sage Version 4.3
> > VirtualBox 3.1.4
> > Windows 7
> > Firefox 3.6.8
>
> > My machine crashed with the VM running Sage. When I rebooted, I
> > restarted VirtualBox, restarted the VM, and pointed the (host) browser
> > to Sage's IP (192.168.56.101). No dice: I get a "Firefox can't
> > establish a connection to the server at 192.168.56.101." Furthermore,
> > pinging 192.168.56.101 from a command prompt gives 4 healthy <1ms
> > responses.
>
> > Inside the VM, opening Firefox and pointing it
> > tohttp://localhost:8000/home/admin/
> > initially gave a "can't establish connection" error. Then I clicked
> > on the "sage:prompt" icon and typed "notebook()". The result was that
> > now the VM browser does display the "Active Worksheets" page
> > correctly, although Sage threw the following at me:
>
> > The notebook files are stored in: sage_notebook.sagenb
> > **
> > * *
> > * Open your web browser tohttp://localhost:8000*
> > * *
> > **
> > Removing stale pidfile /home/sage/.sage/sage_notebook.sagenb/
> > twistd.pid
> > 2010-08-11 13:11:24-0700 [-] Log opened.
> > 2010-08-11 13:11:24-0700 [-] twistd 8.2.0 (/sage/sage/local/bin/python
> > 2.6.2) st
> > arting up.
> > 2010-08-11 13:11:24-0700 [-] reactor class:
> > twisted.internet.selectreactor.Selec
> > tReactor.
> > 2010-08-11 13:11:24-0700 [-] twisted.web2.channel.http.HTTPFactory
> > starting on 8
> > 000
> > 2010-08-11 13:11:24-0700 [-] Starting factory
> > > tory instance at 0xb752b2c>
>
> > The host browser still does not see 192.168.56.101. Please help!
>
> > Thanks,
> > Josh
>
> Josh, I encountered this problem often so I became frustrated...
> My advice is to switch immediately to the VMplayer route and do not
> use Virtualbox anymore.
> (VMplayer has improved a lot)
> Look at the download pagehttp://wiki.sagemath.org/DownloadAndInstallationGuide
> what to do,
> and follow the instructions
> athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/t/7e82f6dc7b4f5065
> Before you switch, do NOT forget to download ALL your worksheet files
> first!
> Success! Roland
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