Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom crashing in Zope-Plone

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Haven't heard anything here -- just wondering if this
issue is still live.

Take care,

Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:

> Greetings!  My apologies, but I've lost the head of this thread.  I'm
> assuming that there is a segfault problem with debian alpha axiom
> (unstable).  (GCL is built in btw).  I'm also assuming the problem
> shows up on startup.  In this case, I cannot reproduce -- just
> downloaded the binaries and installed on escher.debian.org's unstable
> dchroot.  Of course you can only run these on Debian testing or
> unstable due to the libc et.al dynamic dependencies.  Is that the
> problem?  If any of this is close, please fill in a detailed way I can
> reproduce the crash, or better yet, send a copy both to me and to the
> Debian BTS.  'reportbug' is good for this.
> 
> For the package to build, btw, the compiled axiom must successfully
> run the full input test suite, so the very existence of the alpha
> package means that this was done.  You can find a log on
> buildd.debian.org if interested.
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Bob McElrath <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Bill Page address@hidden wrote:
> > > Hans,
> > > 
> > > Do I understand correctly that after re-compiling Axiom that
> > > you now have a fully operational LatexWiki system under debian
> > > that can run Axiom? If so, congratulations! I think there are
> > > a number of other people (including Tim Daly :) who would very
> > > much like to setup a similar stand alone LatexWiki/Axiom system.
> > 
> > And me!
> > 
> > But we really need to have people setting this up in a chroot jail.  I
> > have been reading up on this...we need a script to create the jail.
> > 
> > > I promised Tim that I would set something up for this, but I
> > > have not yet had the time. If you have some time to write up a
> > > short description of how you did it, I think it would be most
> > > appreciated.
> > 
> > I would like to distribute axiom support with LatexWiki.  I have tied my
> > version numbers to ZWiki, and they will release 0.35 on 10/1.  Do you
> > think we could add this by then?  (or maybe a bit after to ensure 0.35
> > compatability)
> > 
> > Bill our darcs repos have diverged, your patches no longer apply cleanly
> > to latexwiki.  I have moved the functions 'runCommand' and 'log' into
> > util.py so that they can be used by axiom/reduce.  There are a couple
> > other conflicts too (I improved plone/stylesheet in latexwiki.css).  Why
> > do you have a font-size +2 in your latexwiki.css?  Will you have time to
> > merge this in the next week or two?
> > 
> > FYI, I have gotten MathML/LatexWiki working in Plone::
> > 
> >     http://mcelrath.org/Plone/ITeXTest
> > 
> > You will need my zwiki patches to do that::
> > 
> >     http://bob.mcelrath.org/darcs/zwiki
> > 
> > Hopefully I will get those into ZWiki 0.35 but I haven't been able to
> > get Simon's attention in the last couple of days.  ;)  As a reminder my
> > latexwiki repo is here::
> > 
> >     http://bob.mcelrath.org/darcs/latexwiki
> > 
> > > Did you download the binary version of Axiom that failed from
> > > debian unstable? If so, we should be sure to let Camm Maguire
> > > know since he is the architect of the debian version. What
> > > version of GCL are you using for the re-compile? What is the
> > > hardware platform that you are using?
> > 
> > Mine is a debian binary::
> > 
> >     (0)<address@hidden:~> dpkg -l axiom
> >     Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> >     | 
> > Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> >     |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
> > uppercase=bad)
> >     ||/ Name              Version           Description
> >     
> > +++-=================-=================-==================================================
> >     ii  axiom             0.20040831-1      A general purpose computer 
> > algebra system: main bi
> >     (0)<address@hidden:~> axiom
> >     Segmentation fault
> > 
> > This is the alpha architecture.
> > 
> > If I understand correctly, GCL is compiled-in?  I do not have gcl itself
> > installed on this machine.
> > 
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]
> >     
> >     It is unpatriotic to question the Kleptocracy.
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> Camm Maguire                                          address@hidden
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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