[GAP Forum] problem with AutomorphismGroup

[Markus Szymik]

Dear Dimitri,

I have upgraded to Sage 5.0 last week. Maybe I should remove the old install to 
ensure that Sage 4.8 is not being called upon by "accident".

Thanks,

Markus

Am 25.05.2012 um 11:56 schrieb Dmitrii (Dima) Pasechnik:

> Hi Markus,
> 
> it indeed doesn't seem to work in Sage 4.8, for some reason, but does work
> with Sage 5.0 for me.
> Can you upgrade?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dmitrii
> 
> On 25 May 2012 11:40, Markus Szymik <markus.szymik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Alexander,
>> 
>> The error occurred while I was accessing GAP through Sage.
>> When I use GAP directly from within a terminal, the problem disappears.
>> Thanks a lot for pointing out that it should work.
>> 
>> All the best,
>> 
>> Markus
>> 
>>> Dear Markus,
>>> 
>>> For me, this works fine, both with default packages and without packages,
>>> for example:
>>> 
>>> GAP4, Version: 4.4.12 of 17-Dec-2008, i686-apple-darwin10.8.0-gcc
>>> Components:  small 2.1, small2 2.0, small3 2.0, small4 1.0, small5 1.0,
>>>            small6 1.0, small7 1.0, small8 1.0, small9 1.0, small10 0.2,
>>>            small11 0.1, id2 3.0, id3 2.1, id4 1.0, id5 1.0, id6 1.0, id9 1.0,
>>>            id10 0.1, trans 1.0, prim 2.1  loaded.
>>> Packages:    AClib 1.1, Polycyclic 2.8.1, Alnuth 2.3.1, AutPGrp 1.4, nq 2.2,
>>>            GAPDoc 1.3, IO 3.3, CrystCat 1.1.3, Cryst 4.1.6, CRISP 1.3.4,
>>>            CTblLib 1.1.3, TomLib 1.1.4, FactInt 1.5.3, FGA 1.1.0.1,
>>>            IRREDSOL 1.2, LAGUNA 3.5.0, Sophus 1.23, MIPLib 1.0,
>>>            Polenta 1.2.7, ResClasses 3.0.0  loaded.
>>> gap> AutomorphismGroup(DihedralGroup(8));
>>> <group of size 8 with 3 generators>
>>> 
>>> Which version of GAP are you using? How did you install it?
>>> Could you copy-and-paste the exact GAP session where you have this error?
>>> 
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Alexander
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 25 May 2012, at 10:05, Markus Szymik wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Dear Forum,
>>>> 
>>>> I am trying to compute automorphism groups of p-groups,
>>>> and GAP responds with an error message I don't understand.
>>>> For example,
>>>> 
>>>>     AutomorphismGroup(DihedralGroup(8));
>>>> 
>>>> results in:
>>>> 
>>>>     ...
>>>>     RuntimeError: Gap produced error output
>>>>     Function: number of arguments must be 1 (not 2)
>>>> 
>>>> The command works fine for all groups of order less than 8.
>>>> What is wrong here?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Markus
>>>> 
>>>> 
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