Re: 6.0.3 Windows front end won't connect to kernel
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- Subject: [mg93479] Re: [mg93439] 6.0.3 Windows front end won't connect to kernel
- From: "peter lindsay" <plindsay at mcs.st-and.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:44:16 -0500 (EST)
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I think a re-install is advised, you may have to remove the mathpass file first. I second D. Bailey's comments re Vista.Peter 2008/11/8 Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu> > Any diagnosis of the following problem with Mathematica 6.0.3 running on > Windows XP Pro: In the Front end, if I try to evaluate an expression > with the usual Shift-Enter (or the numeric keypad's Enter), it merely > creates a new line, and no evaluation takes place. > > The kernel is OK, as I can start that manually and evaluate expressions > there. > > So what might have causes the break between Front end and Kernel and, > specifically, the reaction to Shift-Return. > > Background: This system had its motherboard blown by a power surge over > my university's power lines, despite a surge protector. The motherboard > was replaced. The hard drives did not seem to have been affected. > > AT first I was concerned that the new MB would change the MathID and > hence require a new password. But the very same mathpass file still > seems to work OK. > > -- > Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) > University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 > Amherst, MA 01003-9305 > > -- peter lindsay computing officer mathematical institute university of st andrews ky16 9ss phone: 01334-463756 The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland : No SC013532
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- 6.0.3 Windows front end won't connect to kernel
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu>
- 6.0.3 Windows front end won't connect to kernel