Package: maxima
Version: 5.10.0-6
Severity: grave
Tags: l10n
Justification: renders package unusable
Maxima on my system decided to stop starting/working recently.
I am running debian etch (4.0) stable (i386).
Here is what happens:
$ maxima
Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
Error in SETQ [or a callee]: 0 and 2 are illegal as :START and :END
for the sequence "".
Automatically continuing.
To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
Error in SUBSEQ [or a callee]: The tag RETURN-FROM-DEBUGGER is
undefined.
Fast links are on: do (use-fast-links nil) for debugging
Broken at CONDITIONS::CLCS-UNIVERSAL-ERROR-HANDLER. Type :H for
Help.
1 (Continue) Maxima top-level
2 (Abort) Return to top level.
dbl:MAXIMA>>
I have tried the following, unsuccesful steps, so far:
1) Uninstall and purge the package and reinstall it
using apt-get.
2) Try running maxima as a different user.
However on another system (32bit) that I have running
also debian etch stable,
maxima seems to be working so apparently this seems to
be a system specific problem.
After LOTS of searching I realised that the problem was
due to the
localisation settings.
In the past I was running with the locale set to posix.
Here are my current settings:
$ locale
LANG=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_TIME=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_NAME=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_ALL=
When I unset all those variables (or set the locale to posix) maxima
works fine again.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21asrock
Locale: LANG=el_GR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages maxima depends on:
di gnuplot-nox 4.0.0-5 A command-line driven interactive
Versions of packages maxima recommends:
ii gv 1:3.6.2-3 PostScript and PDF viewer for X
pn maxima-share <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80GHz
The kernel has smp support but otherwise normal 32bit kernel that has
been running for many months.
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