Your message dated Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:23:20 -0400 with message-id <87txi7jos7....@maguirefamily.org> and subject line maxima startup failure has caused the Debian Bug report #717140, regarding maxima: On testing (amd64), maxima crashes at startup to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: maxima Version: 5.30.0-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Following testing... * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Trying to launch maxima (in a gnome terminal) : charpent@SAP5057241:~$ maxima Maxima encountered a Lisp error: Error in INITIALIZE-RUNTIME-GLOBALS [or a callee]: Cannot open the file /usr/share/doc/maxima/info/./maxima-index.lisp. Automatically continuing. To enable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil. Error in CL-INFO::LOAD-PRIMARY-INDEX [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) Retry loading file "/usr/share/doc/maxima/info/./maxima- index.lisp". 2 Maxima top-level 3 (Abort) Return to top level. dbl:MAXIMA>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * What was the outcome of this action? At this point, any attempt to get back to the toplevel results in another break : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ dbl:MAXIMA>>1 Maxima encountered a Lisp error: Error in INITIALIZE-RUNTIME-GLOBALS [or a callee]: Cannot open the file /usr/share/doc/maxima/info/./maxima-index.lisp. Automatically continuing. To enable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil. Error in CL-INFO::LOAD-PRIMARY-INDEX [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) Retry loading file "/usr/share/doc/maxima/info/./maxima- index.lisp". 2 Maxima top-level 3 (Abort) Return to top level. dbl:MAXIMA>>2 Error in LISP:LAMBDA-CLOSURE [or a callee]: The tag #:G33007 is missing. Fast links are on: do (use-fast-links nil) for debugging Broken at GO. 1 (Abort) Return to debug level 1. 2 Retry loading file "/usr/share/doc/maxima/info/./maxima-index.lisp". 3 Maxima top-level 4 Return to top level. dbl:MAXIMA>>>4 Error in GO [or a callee]: The tag (NIL) is undefined. Fast links are on: do (use-fast-links nil) for debugging Broken at CONDITIONS::CLCS-UNIVERSAL-ERROR-HANDLER. 1 (Abort) Return to debug level 2. 2 Return to debug level 1. 3 Retry loading file "/usr/share/doc/maxima/info/./maxima-index.lisp". 4 Maxima top-level 5 Return to top level. dbl:MAXIMA>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The only way out I found was to killall maxima from another rerminal * What outcome did you expect instead? A working maxima :-)... I *think* that the problem might be lisp-related. Maxima is currently compiled wit gcl in Debian ; the Sage team has standardized on ECL, which, apparently, gives better performance. Time to reconsider ? Or better, to have a multi-lisp solution ? -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages maxima depends on: ii gnuplot-x11 4.6.3-2 ii libc6 2.17-7 ii libgmp10 2:5.1.2+dfsg-2 ii libreadline6 6.2+dfsg-0.1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.0-1 Versions of packages maxima recommends: ii maxima-share 5.30.0-4 Versions of packages maxima suggests: ii maxima-doc 5.30.0-4 ii maxima-emacs 5.30.0-4 pn texmacs <none> ii tk8.5 [wish] 8.5.14-2 ii xmaxima 5.30.0-4 -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Greetings! I believe this issue is no longer relevant to the current package. Please reopen if I'm mistaken. Take care, -- Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah
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