Maxima encountered a Lisp error on start up

Le Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:20:09 -0500,
Duane Tarr <tarpit at comcast.net> a ?crit :

> I get the following error message when starting Maxima.  What's the
> fix for this?
> 
> 
> 60:dbt at loki:~> /usr/bin/maxima
> Maxima 5.20.1 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> using Lisp CLISP 2.47 (2008-10-23)
> Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
> Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
> The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
> 
> stdin:1:Incorrect syntax: Premature termination of input at ;.
> ;
> Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
> 
>  
> SYSTEM::FORMAT-TABULATE: argument -1 is not a nonnegative fixnum
> 
> Automatically continuing.
> To enable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
> 
> *** - THROW: there is no CATCHer for tag RETURN-FROM-DEBUGGER
> The following restarts are available:
> MACSYMA-QUIT   :R1      Maxima top-level
> Break 1 [1]> 

Same here with wxMaxima from Ubuntu Karmic :

(%i1)integrate(1/(x^3+1));

Universal error handler called recursively (:ERROR NIL
                                                  CONDITIONS::CLCS-UNIVERSAL-ERROR-HANDLER
                                                  ""
                                                  "Couldn't protect")
Universal error handler called recursively (:ERROR NIL
                                            CONDITIONS::CLCS-UNIVERSAL-ERROR-HANDLER
                                            "" "Couldn't protect")
Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
 Error in CONDITIONS::CLCS-UNIVERSAL-ERROR-HANDLER [or a callee]:
Caught fatal error [memory may be damaged] Automatically continuing.
To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.

Quite annoying. It seems to be linked with the Ubuntu Maxima package...
was there something new in this karmic upgrade ?

\bye

PS : It ougth to be solved quickly, or I move to Maple !!!
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(just kidding ;-)

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