xmaxima, wxmaxima do not work

[Rex Dieter]

Antonio Olivares wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> xmaxima and wvxmaxima are not working.  This happens
> on the rawhide machines and on the livecd that I have
> generated with livecd-creator.  What should I do?
> 
> [students at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa maxima*
> maxima-5.13.0-7.fc8
> maxima-gui-5.13.0-7.fc8
> maxima-runtime-sbcl-5.13.0-7.fc8
> [students at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa Wxmaxima*
> [students at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa wxmaxima*
> [students at localhost ~]$ wxmaxima
> 
> ** (wxmaxima:9191): WARNING **: IPP request failed
> with status 1030
> [students at localhost ~]$ wxmaxima
> 
> ** (wxmaxima:9214): WARNING **: IPP request failed
> with status 1030
> [students at localhost ~]$ wxMaxima
> bash: wxMaxima: command not found
> [students at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa wxMaxima
> wxMaxima-0.7.2-4.fc8
> [students at localhost ~]$
> 
> [students at localhost ~]$ xmaxima
> Maxima 5.13.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> Using Lisp SBCL 1.0.10
> 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
> Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
> 
>  Name service error in "getaddrinfo": -2 (Name or
> service not known)
> 
> Automatically continuing.
> To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to
> nil.
> (%i1) [students at localhost ~]$
> 
> Anbody else seeing this.

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-- Rex