Serious Mathematica Problem
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: Serious Mathematica Problem
- From: Robert Singleton <bobs at thnext.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 13:28:33 PDT
Hi, Can any one give me some suggestions: I have a very serious and very peculiar Mathematica problem. One minute mathematica was working, and the next it wasn't! I was doing a numerical calculation and it seemed to be taking too long. Soon mathematica had taken up my remaining 10-20MB of space. I quit the session; logged out; rebooted to clear the space; and when I logged back in all the icons were missing (I had to replace them by hand). Now when I try to evaluate a cell in a note book nothing happens - the cell brace activates like it's doing the calculation, but it never finishes. I can open notebooks and run animation, but I can't evaluate ANYTHING. The notebook that I was editing at the time, however, won't even open. I can't make new notebooks because mathematica won't start up there either. I tried something very drastic. I logged in as root, and installed mathematica again from scratch. Still no improvement!! I also tried running mathematica from a shell window. Here is what I got: thnext:% math Mathematica 2.0 for NeXT Copyright 1988-91 Wolfram Research, Inc. /usr/local/bin/math: 287 Memory fault thnext:% What is a Memory fault?!? Does anyone have ANY clue what could be wrong?!????!? Thanks very much for any suggestions. Bob Singleton bobs at thnext.mit.edu