Subject: Maxima encountered a Lisp error on start up
From: osman
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:14:24 -0500
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 14:00 +0100, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote:
> Le Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:05:08 +0100,
> Nicolas FRANCOIS <nicolas.francois at free.fr> a ?crit :
>
> > OK, I'll check the Ubuntu forum. Maybe some geek will fix the GCL
> > problem, or bring a package with another Lisp interpreter.
>
> This link on the Ubuntu site reports the problem :
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/maxima/+bug/303587
>
> and provides some fixes. Some are just workarounds for bypassing address
> space randomization :
>
> Jorrit Kronjee wrote on 2009-11-01: #14
>
> This problem occurs when address space randomization is enabled (which
> is enabled by default on newer kernels). When this option is set to 0
> or 1, the error does not occur (default is 2). As a workaround, you
> should add the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf:
>
> kernel.randomize_va_space = 1
>
> After that, run sysctl -p
I have karmic 64 bit. This solution works for me for both gcl and
maxima. Unfortunatly karmic only has 5.17. But I also built the latest
maxima using ecl and it worked. using sbcl also works.
Thanks for the hint!
Osman