On 9/14/07, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a fully updated Fedora Core 6 machine with all the updates. Maxima > is not working. > > [olivares@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa maxima* > maxima-5.13.0-4.fc6 > maxima-gui-5.13.0-4.fc6 > maxima-runtime-gcl-5.13.0-4.fc6 > [olivares@localhost ~]$ > > [olivares@localhost ~]$ uname -a > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.22.4-45.fc6 #1 SMP Tue Aug 21 18:29:10 EDT > 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > [olivares@localhost ~]$ > > > I know that Fedora Core 6 is approaching the time of its slow death, but it > was working previously. Is anyone also having this trouble? > > I fire up xmaxima and the startup hangs. It asks Starting Maxima timed out. > Wait longer? > > If I click on any link below like integrate(): it returns > > Failed to eval region > Failed to eval region > while executing > "error [mc "Failed to eval region"]" > (procedure "doInvoke" line 50) > invoked from within > "doInvoke .browser.t1.text @123,437 " > (command bound to event) > I know that this is not much help, but: Does the command line version work? (I never used maxima, so I may be wrong about this, but I suspect that the maxima package provides a CLI.) In either case, you should file a bug report against either the maxima-5.13.0-4.fc6 or the maxima-gui-5.13.0-4.fc6 package, as appropriate. FC6 is still supported. Andras