Symbolic Package Problems

I can not get symbolic to work either with python 2.7.18 or python3.
Any ideas?

 > PYTHON=python3 octave
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octave:1> pkg load symbolic
octave:2> x=sym('x')
Symbolic pkg v2.9.0: 
/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/sympy/__init__.py:672: 
SymPyDeprecationWarning:

importing sympy.core.compatibility with 'from sympy import *' has been
deprecated since SymPy 1.6. Use import sympy.core.compatibility
instead. See https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/18245 for more
info.

   self.Warn(
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
   File "<stdin>", line 12, in octoutput_drv
   File "<stdin>", line 54, in octoutput
   File "<stdin>", line 55, in octoutput
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/sympy/__init__.py", line 
677, in __getattr__
     return getattr(self.mod, name)
AttributeError: module 'sympy.core.compatibility' has no attribute 
'integer_types'
Waiting...............warning: readblock: timeout of 30 exceeded, 
breaking out
warning: called from
     readblock at line 101 column 7
     python_ipc_popen2 at line 99 column 16
     python_ipc_driver at line 62 column 15
     pycall_sympy__ at line 163 column 11
     sym at line 452 column 9

no output so far

error: ipc_popen2: something wrong? timed out starting python
error: called from
     python_ipc_popen2 at line 101 column 7
     python_ipc_driver at line 62 column 15
     pycall_sympy__ at line 163 column 11
     sym at line 452 column 9