Maple 10 & linux_base-fc6

[Tijl Coosemans]

Hi John,

On Wednesday 23 April 2008 22:10:18 John Wright wrote:
> I'm having some problems getting Maple 10 working on FreeBSD and I'm hoping
> someone can sort me out.  From the FreeBSD Handbook and from the forums I've
> found a way to install Maple 10 and have it recognize FreeBSD as a type of
> Linux.  All is well until I actually run it.
> 
> See, a few months back I was running 6.3-RELEASE with linux_base-fc4 and I
> was able to install FreeBSD and run it, but I couldn't connect to the kernel
> because of an rt_sigpending error.  This has been documented and there is a
> fix available (a patch).  I was never able to get it working with the patch
> and eventually I had a fresh install of 7.0 anyways.  Now I'm using
> linux_base-fc6 (because Skype calls for it now) and I've recently tried to
> install Maple again.  When I run "xmaple" (the X version) it hangs at the
> splash screen.  If I run "maple" I get an error (because I haven't activated
> it yet, but that's okay).  I don't want to activate it yet until I know that
> it is working under FreeBSD because I've had to keep asking Maple again and
> again to reset my Activation code because I've been trying to install and
> reinstall a lot.
> 
> I also tried installing linux_base-f8 but when I had it installed I didn't
> even get the splash screen, it just froze immediately.  One more thing,
> there is an "activation" program that is included which you can run
> separately from xmaple in order to activate it.  When I run this, the window
> for it pops up just fine, and I can enter the activation code and
> everything.  So it seems that the command-line Maple is working fine but the
> X-window version is not, and I'm not really sure why.  I'd really like to
> run the X version so any help is appreciated.
> 
> jello# uname -a
> FreeBSD jello.hwresnet.org 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24
> 19:59:52 UTC 2008     root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> i386
> 
> linux_base-fc6-6_5
> xorg-7.3_1
> 
> Also, before I sent out this email I tried to run  Maple again and opened a
> new terminal to see what processes are running while Maple is frozen, and
> I'm not sure what to make of it.  Maybe the reason Maple isn't starting is
> Java related?

The Linux version of the Java runtime needs linprocfs(5):

mount -t linprocfs linprocfs /compat/linux/proc

It might also help to run maple/xmaple using the Linux /bin/sh:

/compat/linux/bin/sh /path/to/xmaple

Then you don't need to modify any script to add a FreeBSD case.