--Alt-Boundary-3562.6350902 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Am 18 Nov 2005 um 11:34 hat Uwe Weber geschrieben: > 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. > Hello Uwe, I am Administrator of a Windows 2000 LAN and I also have the problem you describe. If I am logged in as Administrator there are no problems, but if I am a standard user, function describe failed to find info directory. My standard user does not use drive C but a home directory on a file server. I think that it is not a question of permissions, but a problem of finding directories in a Win2000 file system. There had been problems with the plot functions after the great Win2000 rollout from Microsoft in August and some changes have been made from 5.9.1 to 5.9.2 concerning the global variables about user directories and other paths. I recognized in /src that also function describe is changed. It seems, that something is not fixed yet. There is also a similar problem with function compile. compile cannot work because it cannot delete the temporary gazonk files. (This is a reminder for that problem. Fixed meanwhile?) Uwe, which user produces your error message? What is the home directory? Maybe, this can give a hint. On my Win2000 standalone everything works right. No matter which user is logged in. Greetings from Aachen Volker van Nek --Alt-Boundary-3562.6350902 Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body
I am Administrator of a Windows 2000 LAN and I also have the problem you describe.If I am logged in as Administrator there are no problems, but if I am a standard user, function describe failed to find info directory. My standard user does not use drive C but a home directory on a file server.
I think that it is not a question of permissions, but a problem of finding directories in a Win2000 file system. There had been problems with the plot functions after the great Win2000 rollout from Microsoft in August and some changes have been made from 5.9.1 to 5.9.2 concerning the global variables about user directories and other paths.I recognized in /src that also function describe is changed. It seems, that something is not fixed yet.
There is also a similar problem with function compile. compile cannot work because it cannot delete the temporary gazonk files. (This is a reminder for that problem. Fixed meanwhile?)
Uwe, which user produces your error message? What is the home directory? Maybe, this can give a hint. On my Win2000 standalone everything works right. No matter which user is logged in.
Greetings from AachenVolker van Nek--Alt-Boundary-3562.6350902--