Re: Bug#155256: maxima: Maxima hangs when the HTML browser can't access a link



forwarded 155256 maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu
thanks

Greetings!  I'm forwarding three bug reports on xmaxima from a Debian
user.  I don't know any tcl/tk, so unfortunately cannot help here
myself.

Take care,

Neilen <nmarais@hertz.ee.sun.ac.za> writes:

> Package: maxima
> Version: 5.6-17
> Severity: important
> 
> When I click on the the documentation link in the Maxima primer that is
> loaded when you start xmaxima, it hangs.  The link is an external link, and
> is beyond your firewall.
> 
> OK, rephrase, maxima hangs while it waits for the socket to timeout. Almost
> as bad...
> 
> Thanks
> Neilen
> 
> 
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 3.0
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux stoomtrein 2.4.18 #6 Sat Jun 29 10:00:18 SAST 2002 i686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=
> 
> Versions of packages maxima depends on:
> ii  libc6                         2.2.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  tk8.0 [wish]                  8.0.5-9    The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v8.
> ii  tk8.2                         8.2.3-4    The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v8.
> ii  tk8.2 [wish]                  8.2.3-4    The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v8.
> ii  tk8.3 [wish]                  8.3.3-8    The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v8.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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