Re: [sage-devel] setlocale problem

2013-07-30 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 07/29/2013 05:55 PM, John Cremona wrote: I have never understood this locale business, but this is on a just-installed system where I followed all the ubuntu installation prompts and have customised nothing, even my .bashrc is whatever ubuntu puts in by default. Well, somewhere, something

Re: [sage-devel] setlocale problem

2013-07-30 Thread John Cremona
On 30 July 2013 15:43, Jeroen Demeyer jdeme...@cage.ugent.be wrote: On 07/29/2013 05:55 PM, John Cremona wrote: I have never understood this locale business, but this is on a just-installed system where I followed all the ubuntu installation prompts and have customised nothing, even my

Re: [sage-devel] setlocale problem

2013-07-30 Thread John Cremona
On 30 July 2013 16:20, Volker Braun vbraun.n...@gmail.com wrote: Are you ssh-ing into the machine or not? And if yes, from where? It is not recommended to forward the environment by default over ssh but it can be configured (see SendEnv, AcceptEnv in the ssh configuration, /etc/ssh/ or

Re: [sage-devel] setlocale problem

2013-07-30 Thread Francois Bissey
Ah but you see the machine you are login in may be importing some of your env variables by default. It usually has to be disabled somewhere in /etc/sshd if I remember correctly. Francois On 31/07/2013, at 3:58, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 July 2013 16:20, Volker Braun

Re: [sage-devel] setlocale problem

2013-07-30 Thread François Bissey
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:51:58 Francois Bissey wrote: Ah but you see the machine you are login in may be importing some of your env variables by default. It usually has to be disabled somewhere in /etc/sshd if I remember correctly. I found it. In /etc/ssh/sshd_config there can be this section:

Re: [sage-devel] setlocale problem

2013-07-30 Thread John Cremona
Thanks for the diagnosis, I will test it tomorrow! John On 30 July 2013 22:15, François Bissey francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:51:58 Francois Bissey wrote: Ah but you see the machine you are login in may be importing some of your env variables by default. It

[sage-devel] setlocale problem

2013-07-29 Thread John Cremona
Having just installed ubuntu 12.04 server on a new machine I built and tested Sage 5.11.beta3 (how else to test it?) I used make after doing export MAKE='make -j' (the machine has 32 cores) and after building most stuff it froze, I saw via ps aux that there were a huge number of python processes