wxMaxima 0.7.4/Maxima 5.18.1 on Gentoo Linux


On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Greg Dermer wrote:

< I'm having trouble with the above configuration with symptoms similar to 
< those reported by others.  Unfortunately, I either was unable to find 
< any reported solutions, or possibly was too dense to recognize them.  
< Anyway:
< 
< 1)  An earlier version of wxMaxima / Maxima worked fine.  I 
< unfortunately neglected to note what that version was.
< 2)  After installation of 0.7.4/5.18.1, the first invocation of wxMaxima 
< worked fine.  All subsequent invocations result in the maxima engine 
< dying with the report (at the bottom of the wxMaxima window) "Maxima 
< process terminated."  Attempting restart of the maxima engine from 
< within wxMaxima results in the same message.
< 3)  I've experimented with editing the "maxima=" line in .wxMaxima to 
< point to the maxima executable, as well as deleting the file altogether 
< with no apparent effect.
< 4)  Although I thought at first that xmaxima was also failing, the last 
< few attempts worked fine.
< 5)  Command line maxima works fine.
< 6) 127.0.0.1  localhost appears in /etc/hosts
< 7) No firewalls are in use.
< 8)  The lisp compiler is SBCL
 
It would be useful to post this question on wxMaxima's forum on
sourceforge.
Leo

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