One of my students had a similar problem (he is also using FreeBSD).
His solution was to install GCL (whatever was the current GCL) 6-7
weeks ago, and then to install (i.e., compile from sources) Maxima.
No problems since. Hope this helps.
Milan Lukic
Peter Ulrich Kruppa [30/10/03 20:43 +0100]:
> Hi!
>
> I happily succeeded in installing Maxima on my FreeBSD-CURRENT machine.
> I can start the Maxima window with
> # xmaxima
> but when I put in something like
> 5+3;
> I keep receiving these error mesages:
>
> --------------------------------------------
> can't read "_WinInfo.maxima.text(atMaximaPrompt)": no such element in
> array
> can't read "_WinInfo.maxima.text(atMaximaPrompt)": no such element in
> array
> while executing
> "set _WinInfo[set win]($var)"
> (procedure "oget" line 4)
> invoked from within
> "oget $w atMaximaPrompt"
> (procedure "CMeval" line 24)
> invoked from within
> "CMeval .maxima.text "
> (command bound to event)
> -------------------------------------------
>
> Has anybody seen this? What can be done?
>
> Thanks for your answers,
>
>
> Uli.
>
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