7.152 bus error, command-line Maple 5.1 and Solaris 2.7 (2.5.00)

7.152.1 Vincent Lefevre

With Maple 5.1 under Solaris 7, I get the following bus error:

$ uname -a 
SunOS vin 5.7 Generic_106541-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 
$ maple -s 
    |\^/|     Maple V Release 5.1 (Ens Lyon) 
._|\|   |/|_. Copyright (c) 1981-1998 by Waterloo Maple Inc. All rights 
 \  MAPLE  /  reserved. Maple and Maple V are registered trademarks of 
 <____ ____>  Waterloo Maple Inc. 
      |       Type ? for help. 
> with(share): 
See ?share and ?share,contents for information about the share library 
> f := n -> n*(n^6-1); 
                                           6 
                             f := n -> n (n  - 1) 
 
> f(3) mod 7; 
                                       0 
 
> ?seq 
zsh: bus error  maple -s
 

Can anyone else reproduce this? Is it a known bug? ...

Note: I need the above 4 commands to produce the bus error.

7.152.2 Robert Israel (3.5.00)

I get the bus error more simply.

63 /nfs/faculty/israel> uname -a 
SunOS percy 5.7 Generic_106541-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1 
64 /nfs/faculty/israel> maple 
    |\^/|     Maple V Release 5.1 (University of British Columbia) 
._|\|   |/|_. Copyright (c) 1981-1998 by Waterloo Maple Inc. All rights 
 \  MAPLE  /  reserved. Maple and Maple V are registered trademarks of 
 <____ ____>  Waterloo Maple Inc. 
      |       Type ? for help. 
> ?seq 
Bus Error
 

I’ve found that invoking help pages from command-line Maple is a risky business. Sometimes it works, but other times it results in a crash. If the first command in the session is a help request the result (at least on this computer, this afternoon, with my .mapleinit file) is always a crash. It doesn’t matter which help page it is (or even whether the help topic exists).

7.152.3 Heike Koch-Beuttenmueller (5.5.00)

For the next version of Solaris:

capella$ uname -a 
SunOS capella 5.8 Generic sun4u sparc
 

on our Solaris 8 Test-Computer your problem works. May-be your computer can be updated ?

7.152.4 Heike Koch-Beuttenmueller (10.5.00)

Robert Israel <[e-mail]> wrote: ...

I tried your simple example as well with maple5.1 and maple6 on Solaris 2.6 and 2.8 and got no problems. May-be some one else got those probleme especially with Solaris 2.7?