?????? <mailreg at inbox.ru> writes:
> Hi. Could you help me to start Maxima on my netbook please?
>
> Maxima doesn't run. If I boot up command line Maxima, it shows
> Error in SYSTEM::SET-UP-TOP-LEVEL [or a callee]: :ROOT is an illegal pathname name.
> Fast links are on: do (use-fast-links nil) for debugging
> Broken at SYSTEM:STAT.? Type :H for Help.
> ?1 (Abort) Return to top level.
> dbl:>>
> on command line and if I type something, Maxima return more error messages.
>
> Environment:
> Asus EEE PC901, 1.66MHz, 2G
> WinXP SP3 RUS, Firewall disabled, Antivirus absent
> LAN disabled, DEP inactive, Wireless enabled
> MAXIMA 5.28.0-2
>
> Perhaps Maxima depends to some special disabled service?
Hi there,
I see that you're using GCL as a lisp implementation. Its pathname
implementation is pretty weird so writing code to make sure it works is
always a little difficult. Seemingly none of us tested on exactly your
configuration before the release and it broke - sorry!
To work out what's going wrong, could you do a little debugging for us?
Basically, run the thing again to get to the "dbl:>>" command line. Then
type in ":b" and hit enter. With a bit of luck, we'll get a back trace
that tells us where in our code we used a pathname GCL doesn't
understand.
Thinking about it a bit more, this might be Windows-specific since the
"root directory" doesn't really make much sense with the Windows
filesystem. Hopefully this will tell us where we were using it...
Rupert
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