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

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hans,
> 
> When you can find some "spare" time, would it be possible for
> you to attempt what Camm describes below?
> 
> Camm,
> 
> I suppose that "setting TERM environment variable to dumb"
> must disable GCL's use of readline? If so, since we definitely
> don't want readline functionality when AXIOMsys is called
> from the MathAction wiki, I can easily set this environment
> variable when AXIOMsys is called.
> 

Yes, readline is automatically disabled if 1) standard input is not a
terminal (via isatty()) or 2) TERM is unset or 3) TERM is "dumb"
(e.g. emacs shell buffer).

Please let me know if problems persist.

Take care,

> Thanks!
> 
> Bill Page.
> 
> On Friday, October 01, 2004 11:44 AM you wrote:
> > 
> > "Page, Bill" <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > Cam,
> > > 
> > > The original report from Hans:
> > > 
> > >   
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2004-09/msg0
> > 0056.html
> > > 
> > > referred to what later was discovered to be a seg fault
> > > (EXITSTATUS:139 from Python 2.2 popen3) generated by Axiom
> > > when run as a sub-process (popen3). Hans later reported that
> > > the failure occured while running a debian binary version
> > > of Axiom on an Intel i386 box.
> > > 
> > 
> > My suspicion lies in python's pipe code, possibly in conjunction with
> > GCL readline.  Can a segault be reproduced with axiom intel
> > standalone?  Alternatively, can someone please try to reproduce
> > setting the TERM environment variable to "dumb"?  Might need to check
> > strace -f on the process to make sure Python does not setup the pipe
> > environment as a readline capable terminal (e.g. vt100).  If one can
> > get to axiom at all over the pipe, try doing )lisp (si::readline-off)
> > at the beginning, or putting this into some axiom rc startup file or
> > something. 
> > 
> > Please feel free to report all Debian binary bugs to the Debian BTS
> > via 'reportbug'.
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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