Hi,
(I just subscribed, but the confirm email has not yet come through)
I see a problem that several people have seen. There is a little buzz
on the web, but no clues that I could find. I grepped the listserv
archives back to 2005 with no luck.
When starting maxima in a terminal, I used to get the banner
with the version etc. (I dont remember precisely what).
At some point there was a crash of some sort. Now whenever I
start maxima, instead of the banner, I get:
lapeyre> maxima
Maxima restarted.
(%i1)
Furthermore, emacs-style command line editing used to work, but it
stopped working when this weird behavior started. I have tried a few
things, but I always get this broken behavior. I tried
1. running maxima as a different user.
2. uninstalling all maxima packages and reinstalling.
3. searching (but not finding) user's .maxima files
4. searching in /var for stuff written by maxima
5. rebooting.
System info:
x86 architecture
kernel 2.6.23.9
debian unstable
I wonder if anyone has a clue as to what is going on here?
Thanks,
John