Re: [Axiom-developer] 20081202.02.tpd.patch (website download.html add Doyen Thumbdrive)

[William Sit]

Dear Tim and Alfredo:

This one is partly about Axiom. Run Axiom (DOYEN ubuntu), 
and click browse in hyperdoc, then enter Integer and click 
constructor; then click Users. The following fatal error 
message occurs:

                        AXIOM Computer Algebra System 
                         Version: Axiom (July 2008)
               Timestamp: Thursday July 24, 2008 at 
21:52:14 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Issue )copyright to view copyright notices.
   Issue )summary for a summary of useful system 
commands.
   Issue )quit to leave AXIOM and return to shell.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
   Re-reading compress.daase   Re-reading interp.daase
   Re-reading operation.daase
   Re-reading category.daase
   Re-reading browse.daase
(1) -> 
(1) ->    Loading 
/usr/local/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/autoload/bc-matrix.
   Loading /usr/local/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/autoload/bc-misc.
   Loading /usr/local/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/autoload/bc-solve.
   Loading /usr/local/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/autoload/bc-util.
   Loading /usr/local/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/autoload/ht-util.
   Loading /usr/local/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/autoload/htsetvar.
   Loading /usr/local/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/autoload/ht-root.
   Loading /usr/local/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/autoload/br-con.
   Loading /usr/local/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/autoload/br-data.
   Loading /usr/local/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/autoload/showimp.
   Loading /usr/local/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/autoload/br-op1.
   Loading /usr/local/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/autoload/br-op2.
   Loading 
/usr/local/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/autoload/br-search.
   Loading /usr/local/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/autoload/br-util.
   Loading /usr/local/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/autoload/topics.
   Loading /usr/local/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/autoload/br-prof.
   Loading 
/usr/local/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/autoload/br-saturn.
 
   >> System error:
   Caught fatal error [memory may be damaged]

Hitting enter gives a prompt. Enter )hd and hyperdoc 
reloads. Repeat the above, and Axiom crashes (window goes 
away).

By the way, I tried the suggestion to use 
"changes=/path/file.dat" as bootparameter (I used 
"/dev/sda3/DOYEN-Axiom/files.dat" where the directory 
exist but not the file files.dat), and nothing works and I 
only encounter lots of problems (difficult to document, 
such as my computer slows to a crawl, even opening the 
text editor took many seconds, possibly half a minute, 
when it should be instantaneous almost.)  Nothing was 
saved (rather save-able?) and at shutdown time, the screen 
display was weird. One thing is consistent: the time was 
changed to GMT time after reboot to Windows (not the 
timezone, just the time was 5 hours ahead of New York). 
Windows also failed to recognize the USB I used for DOYEN 
(until I remove and test it on another computer, and it 
was fine). With the assistance of a wired connection, I 
was able to connect to a wireless router, but only after 
lots of steps and trials. Too bad this has to be repeated 
with each reboot, and without the wired internet 
connection, simply can't be done at all.

I also tried saving the changes to the USB drive (FAT 
formatted, and follow the "cleanup" instruction, except 
that it gives an error message when the command is run: 

address@hidden:~$ /mnt/live/cleanup
bash: /mnt/live/cleanup: /bin/ash: bad interpreter: No 
such file or directory
address@hidden:~$ ls -al /mnt/live
total 503
drwxr-xr-x  14 root root   1024 2008-12-06 09:19 .
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root    160 2008-12-06 09:19 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   2048 2008-12-06 09:19 bin
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   2182 2008-08-08 18:53 cleanup
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  11264 2008-12-06 09:19 dev
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   1024 2008-12-06 09:19 etc
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root   1024 2008-03-17 07:48 lib
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  25575 2008-08-08 18:53 
liblinuxlive
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   8562 2008-08-08 18:53 linuxrc
drwxrwxrwt   4 root root     80 2008-12-06 09:19 memory
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root   1024 2008-12-06 09:19 mnt
dr-xr-xr-x 167 root root      0 2008-12-06 09:19 proc
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      3 2008-08-08 18:53 sbin -> 
bin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   1024 2008-08-08 18:53 sys
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   1024 2008-12-06 09:19 tmp
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   1024 2008-12-06 09:19 union
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   1024 2008-08-08 18:53 usr
-rw-------   1 root root 450560 2008-08-08 18:53 usr.lzm
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root   1024 2008-08-08 18:53 var
address@hidden:~$ 

Sorry about these reports. 

William


William Sit, Professor Emeritus
Mathematics, City College of New York                  
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