> I'm on sidux (Debian sid, installed it just yesterday) and have
> installed the
> latest SAGE 3.2.3.

> When I enter notebook() I'm aksed for the password and then get

> The notebook files are stored in: /home/fgeiger/.sage//sage_notebook
> **************************************************
> *                                                *
> * Open your web browser to http://localhost:8000 *
> *                                                *
> **************************************************
> 2009-01-11 17:54:04+0100 [-] Log opened.
> 2009-01-11 17:54:04+0100 [-] twistd 8.1.0 (/usr/local/sage/local/bin/
> python
> 2.5.2) starting up
> 2009-01-11 17:54:04+0100 [-] reactor class:
> <class 'twisted.internet.selectreactor.SelectReactor'>
> 2009-01-11 17:54:04+0100 [-] twisted.web2.channel.http.HTTPFactory
> starting on
> 8000
> 2009-01-11 17:54:04+0100 [-] Starting factory
> <twisted.web2.channel.http.HTTPFactory instance at 0x924030c>
> 2009-01-11 17:54:05+0100 [HTTPChannel,0,127.0.0.1]
> 2009-01-11 17:54:05+0100
> [HTTPChannel,1,127.0.0.1] /usr/local/sage/local/lib/python2.5/site-
> packages/twisted/internet/defer.py:267:
> exceptions.DeprecationWarning: Don't pass strings (like 'Bad token')
> to
> failure.Failure (replacing with a DefaultException).
> 2009-01-11 17:54:05+0100 [HTTPChannel,1,127.0.0.1] Exception
> rendering:
> 2009-01-11 17:54:05+0100 [HTTPChannel,1,127.0.0.1] Unhandled Error
>         Traceback (most recent call last):
>         Failure: twisted.python.failure.DefaultException: Bad token

> and the browser shows me

> Internal Server Error
> An error occurred rendering the requested page. More information is
> available
> in the server log.

> The URL is

> http://localhost:8000/?startup_token=3a14...

> I've seen this issue in the archives but it seems having been
> considered a
> glitch (see e.g.
> http://osdir.com/ml/mathematics.sage.support/2008-01/msg00386.html,
> http://www.mail-archive.com/sage-devel@googlegroups.com/msg14216.html,
> and
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/2935: "Since nobody else
> can
> replicate this, and it could just be some weird cookie corruption on
> Jaap's
> computer (or a weird firefox bug), I'm closing this as invalid.")

> Every start by notebook() shows this behavior from now on. I can
> overcome this
> by going to iceweasel and delete everything from the URL except
> http://localhost:8000

> I then have to reenter the password and things are fine again.

> So, not that bad and I could live with it, but it doesn't look good,
> especially when I show my software tools to Windows/MATLAB guys ;-)

> Any idea how to proceed?

> Kind regards
> Loretta

> P.S.: No notebook is running at 8000.

> P.P.S.: Sorry for posting *here*, but I wanted to post this question
> to sage-support, but the server there told me I was banned!?