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  1. Bug #43150
  2. Comment #31

Comment 31 for bug 43150

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Ariel Faigon (ariel.faigon) wrote : Re: wxmaxima fails with error, can't connect to maxima

This bug really hurts :-(

A question: I have this problem (wxmaxima can't connect to maxima) but I don't have gcl at all (I'm using 'clisp' instead).

maxima alone works just fine, it connects successfully to the lisp interpreter. It is only wxmaxima that has the problem.

Moreover, if I install gcl, and change the preferences in wxmaxima to use gcl (instead of clisp) I get exactly the same problem:
Any input to wxmaxima results in:

    CLIENT: Lost socket connection ...
    Restart maxima with 'Maxima-> Restart maxima'.

So how can this possibly be a problem with gcl? I assume William Grant was referring to a different problem in gcl.

If this helps, I'm attaching a full (13K) 'strace -f' output from wxmaxima including the failure.