Re: startup error

Yes, home areas are on an NFS share. Thank you - pointing that setting
to a local scratch disk works (and changing the
c.HistoryAccessor.enabled setting to False)

And apologies if my posting came through twice!

Paul

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Thomas Kluyver <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 31 May 2016 at 23:19, Paul Harrison <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I'm new to ipython and have it installed on a SUSE Linux Enterprise
>> Desktop v12 SP1 system with all the latest OS updates applied.
>>
>> However, when I launch it, I get the output pasted here:
>> http://pastebin.com/SYVsKKi2
>>
>> Can anyone give me any pointers?
>
>
> Is your home directory on an NFS share? We have seen this issue a couple of
> times, where it can't even create an sqlite database. It will be fixed (in
> that it will stop trying and use a fallback) in the next release. In the
> meantime, you can work around it with a config setting like:
>
> c.HistoryAccessor.hist_file =
> '/path/to/local-scratch/ipython-history.sqlite'
>
> Where the path should be on a non-NFS filesystem.
>
> Here's the PR fixing it: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/pull/9418
>
> Thomas
>
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