On 11/18/05, Uwe Weber wrote:
> I installed Maxima 5.9.2 under Win2000.
> When run for the first time after installation, describe(foo) and ? foo
> work well.
> From the second program run on I get the error message
> (in xmaxima as well as command line version)
>
> Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
>
> failed to find info directory
>
> Automatically continuing.
> To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
>
> Un- and reinstalling Maxima reproduces the same behaviour.
Maxima reads a file named maxima.info to get the text
for describe. It sounds like maxima.info has been
clobbered or renamed by running Maxima once.
What does
:lisp CL-INFO::*INFO-PATHS*
(entered at the input prompt) report, and if it names a folder,
are there some files named maxima.info and maxima.info-n
for n=1, 2, 3, ... in there?
A separate issue --
I seem to recall that a problem has been reported that
the folder containing the info files must be on the same
drive (usually C:) as the drive from which you're
executing Maxima, in order for Maxima to find the info.
Sorry I can't be more helpful,
Robert Dodier