From: "Nikolaos I. Ioakimidis" <ioakimidis at otenet>
> In both machines error messages appear quite frequently during a
> session and insist to be there. The error message
>
> Error: can not find channel named "sock76" ("sock80" too in other cases).
>
> is frequent, very frequent. With the word "insist" I mean that I have
> been finally obliged to Restart maxima from its left menu. In at least
> one time an unjustified error of the above type appeared (and insisted)
> although most times this happens after an error by me in the
> command line. (In any case, insisting errors and frequent resort to
> Restart are somewhat inconvenient.)
I can confirm this, and am seeing it too, also under ME. Can anyone
else report on seeing (or not seeing) this, with OS and version?
What's happened is that maxima has died, so there's nothing on the
end of the socket. I have checked in code to give the user a more
informational message, but in essence you have to restart maxima.
What's interesting is that I've also checked in code to make xmaxima
work with the old 5.5 binary windows release, and am *NOT* seeing this
dying of maxima. At least for the moment I do not suspect the xmaxima
socket code, because when I look at this error, maxima has already
dies from the windows process list.
Mike.