On 2013-05-03, aberele at condor.depaul.edu <aberele at condor.depaul.edu> wrote:
> Maxima 5.30.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> using Lisp SBCL 1.0.55.0-abb03f9
> 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:112:incorrect syntax: Missing ]
That looks like an error in parsing the Maxima initialization script.
When Maxima starts up, it looks for a file name
$HOME/.maxima/maxima-init.mac and loads it. Do you have such a file,
and, if so, what is its content?
best
Robert Dodier