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[Maxima-bugs] [ maxima-Bugs-3084299 ] maxima.exe fails to start
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2010-10-20 08:19:49
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Bugs item #3084299, was opened at 2010-10-09 15:30 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jwms You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=104933&aid=3084299&group_id=4933 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Installation Group: None >Status: Closed >Resolution: Fixed Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: John Shanly (jwms) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: maxima.exe fails to start Initial Comment: This bug report is the same problem as the previously reported bug: "wxMaxima won't connect to Maxima on Win XP - ID: 3037617". After starting wxMaxima it displays "Maxima started. Waiting for connection..." and then after a few seconds "Maxima process terminated" in the status bar area. When trying to evaluate cells then "Not connected to Maxima!" error is displayed. I do not see any processes (e.g. cmd.exe) left behind after quitting wxMaxima. I've tried disabling ZoneAlarm and Windows Firewall, choosing proper settings or even disabling DEP feature as described on http://maxima-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Maxima_FAQ however those suggestions have not fixed the problem. I have used the same installer on my work PC and on that PC, Maxima works perfectly. I have run maxima.bat with the -v switch and got the following output: c:\scripts>"C:\Program Files\Maxima-5.22.1\bin\maxima.bat" -v c:\scripts>if "gcl" == "gcl" goto dogcl c:\scripts>C:\PROGRA~1\MAXIMA~1.1\lib\maxima\5.22.1\binary-gcl\maxima.exe -eval "(cl-user::run)" -f -- -v c:\scripts>goto end c:\scripts> ... and then there is no maxima process running. System info: OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 Firewall: ZoneAlarm Free 9.1.007.002 Antivirus: AVG 9.0.862 Maxima version: 5.22.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: John Shanly (jwms) Date: 2010-10-20 08:19 Message: It was necessary to completely uninstall Zone Alarm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: John Shanly (jwms) Date: 2010-10-20 08:17 Message: Completely uninstalling Zone Alarm has fixed the problem -- I can now use maxima :-) Many thanks to you both for your help and attention. Perhaps you should update the Windows section of the README to mention this specific problem with Zone Alarm and the need to uninstall (and not just disable) Zone Alarm. Regards, John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Andrej Vodopivec (andrejv) Date: 2010-10-20 04:50 Message: There are some reports that maxima does not work if zone alarm is installed. My guess is because of DEP and I know of no settings which would make maxima work. For more info read this thread at the wxmaxima forum: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxmaxima/forums/forum/435775/topic/3746616 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: John Shanly (jwms) Date: 2010-10-19 21:47 Message: Or does maxima have some debug mode that I can enable that will produce a trace of maxima's activity during startup ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: John Shanly (jwms) Date: 2010-10-19 20:56 Message: Hi Robert, > What does dir .... c:\scripts>dir "C:\PROGRA~1\MAXIMA~1.1\lib\maxima\5.22.1\binary-gcl\maxima.exe" Volume in drive C is New Disk Volume Serial Number is C0AB-F6FE Directory of C:\PROGRA~1\MAXIMA~1.1\lib\maxima\5.22.1\binary-gcl 13/08/2010 12:51 41,052,224 maxima.exe 1 File(s) 41,052,224 bytes 0 Dir(s) 16,227,049,472 bytes free i.e. maxima.exe exists. > What happens if you cd ... c:\scripts>cd "C:\PROGRA~1\MAXIMA~1.1\lib\maxima\5.22.1\binary-gcl" C:\PROGRA~1\MAXIMA~1.1\lib\maxima\5.22.1\binary-gcl>maxima.exe C:\PROGRA~1\MAXIMA~1.1\lib\maxima\5.22.1\binary-gcl> i.e there is no output and no maxima.exe process running (as reported by the Task Manager). I have installed GCL 2.6.1 and it installs OK and runs a simple Lisp test program i.e.: GCL (GNU Common Lisp) (2.6.1) Wed Oct 8 14:58:05 EAST 2003 Licensed under GNU Library General Public License Dedicated to the memory of W. Schelter Use (help) to get some basic information on how to use GCL. >;; Print some numbers. (loop for i from 1 to 3 do (print i)) 1 2 3 NIL > So GCL itself runs OK at least for that simple case. Can you provide a more complex test case that is more like whatever maxima is running at startup ? Regards, John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Robert Dodier (robert_dodier) Date: 2010-10-19 04:27 Message: It appears that maxima.exe was not executed. Can you verify that maxima.exe exists in the location indicated? What does dir "C:\PROGRA~1\MAXIMA~1.1\lib\maxima\5.22.1\binary-gcl\maxima.exe" display? What happens if you cd "C:\PROGRA~1\MAXIMA~1.1\lib\maxima\5.22.1\binary-gcl" and try to run maxima.exe there? It should show the GCL banner. If you can't get the command line user interface to run, there's probably no hope in trying to get the GUI to run. Probably you know that already. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=104933&aid=3084299&group_id=4933 |