wxmaxima not connecting without internet connection

meesum · 2014-04-09 10:09:08

wxmaxima works completely fine when connected to internet. It gives a "maxima started: waiting for connection" when i am offline.
maxima works fine on console.

i am running it on x86_64.

some pages suggested that i change my /etc/hosts file to include the following

127.0.0.1 localhost

With this change i am getting the same errors.

the error i get on running wxmaxima (or "maxima -s 4010") from console is

> wxmaxima                                                  
Help! 11 nested errors. SB-KERNEL:*MAXIMUM-ERROR-DEPTH* exceeded.
Backtrace for: #<SB-THREAD:THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {10052E34B3}>

Lone_Wolf · 2014-04-09 12:40:39

try putting something like this in your /etc/hosts (replace your_hostname with the real hostname you set for your machine)

127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost your_hostname
::1             localhost.localdomain           localhost your_hostname

( the ::1 is the ipv6 equivalent of 127.0.0.1 )

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2014-04-09 12:41:23)

meesum · 2014-04-10 09:17:56

Lone_Wolf wrote:

try putting something like this in your /etc/hosts (replace your_hostname with the real hostname you set for your machine)
127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost your_hostname
::1             localhost.localdomain           localhost your_hostname
( the ::1 is the ipv6 equivalent of 127.0.0.1 )

not working with above changes. gives me same errors.

if it may be of any help, i use wicd to connect to the net.

meesum · 2014-04-10 16:34:45

i found the source of error. i have a BCM43142 wireless, for which i use broadcom-wl-dkms package from aur. if i rmmod the wl module wxmaxima works fine.

i dont have a clue why this is happening.

Lone_Wolf · 2014-04-11 10:20:15

meesum,

that sounds like a bug between wxmaximi and the broadcom module, i think you should alert wxmaxima devs about this .

To clarify :

if you got wireless internet connection using the wl module , everything works ?

if you don't have internet connection and the wl module is loaded/active wxmaxima hangs ?

meesum · 2014-04-14 08:42:41

Lone_Wolf,

thanks for helping.
i started a new issue with wxmaxima devs.

meesum · 2014-04-16 05:05:07

i downloaded the source files for wxmaxima and maxima, and found that the bug is not in wxmaxima. it simply uses wxwidgets to open a socket for maxima. the bug is possibly in the "setup-client" defun or sbcl code in server.lisp in maxima/src (or sbcl could be buggy), i left it there as i dont understand lisp.

meanwhile, the workaround is to compile maxima using clisp. it works.
heres a link .

yanom · 2015-11-16 15:22:41

Sorry for necro post.

But I installed maxima-ecl from pacman (thus removing maxima package, they conflict) which provides the maxima program but using ECL instead of SBCL. And it appears to not have this bug

Arch Linux

#1 2014-04-09 10:09:08

wxmaxima not connecting without internet connection

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