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maxima package

  1. Bug #417433
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 417433

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Ilya Barygin (randomaction) wrote : Re: [Bug 417433] Re: Maxima crashes on solve, finding determinants, and other operations

I've got a workaround. Before starting maxima, run

sudo sysctl kernel.randomize_va_space=0

This turns off a security-hardening setting (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#ASLR) which gcl doesn't play nice with. You may want to reset it after you're done with maxima, for me the default value is 2, you can find it out by running "sysctl kernel.randomize_va_space" prior to turning off.

So there's an underlying problem with gcl which FTBFS for me because of this problem. I think we should find a way to fix gcl first, then rebuild maxima against fixed gcl.