Bug 216884

Summary:	gcl: xmaxima can't open socket
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Component:	gcl	Assignee:	Gérard Milmeister <gemi>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	6	CC:	extras-qa
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	216539

Description Rex Dieter 2006-11-22 15:05:53 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #216539 +++

Description of problem:

I can use maxima in the console, but if i start xmaxima i get this error message:

Maxima 5.10.0 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.
This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
provides bug reporting information.
(%i1) jfa: starting server on port 4008
couldn't open socket:


Installed packages:
maxima 5.10.0-8.fc6.i386
maxima-gui 5.10.0-8.fc6.i386
maxima-runtime-gcl 5.10.0-8.fc6.i386

-- Additional comment from rdieter.edu on 2006-11-22 09:59 EST --
Looks like we're not alone, Ubuntu has the same problem:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+source/gcl/+bug/43150

Their recommendations were to use a different maxima-runtime (one of
maxima-runtime-clisp, maxima-runtime-cmucl, maxima-runtime-sbcl).

-- Additional comment from rdieter.edu on 2006-11-22 10:04 EST --
Upon closer inspection of ubuntu's report, they claim it to be a gcl bug, see
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+source/gcl/+bug/43150/comments/33
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+source/gcl/+bug/43150/comments/34
http://librarian.launchpad.net/4873164/gcl.diff

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2006-11-28 18:34:19 UTC

closing this (for now), as the bug that prompted it seems to be not reproducible.