I confirm this bug on both i386 and amd64 architectures. Ubuntu 9.10's maxima also fails to factor *any* number:
---------- Maxima 5.17.1 http://maxima.sourceforge.net Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.7 (aka GCL) 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. (%i1) factor(4); Universal error handler called recursively (:ERROR NIL CONDITIONS::CLCS-UNIVERSAL-ERROR-HANDLER "" "Couldn't protect") Universal error handler called recursively (:ERROR NIL CONDITIONS::CLCS-UNIVERSAL-ERROR-HANDLER "" "Couldn't protect") Maxima encountered a Lisp error: Error in CONDITIONS::CLCS-UNIVERSAL-ERROR-HANDLER [or a callee]: Caught fatal error [memory may be damaged] Automatically continuing. To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil. (%i2) ---------- Switching to Debian's maxima packages (cf. f0ma's comment) solves the issue: ---------- Maxima 5.17.1 http://maxima.sourceforge.net Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.7 (aka GCL) 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. (%i1) factor(4); 2 (%o1) 2 (%i2) ---------- -- Maxima crashes on solve, finding determinants, and other operations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417433 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
