In his e-mail message of 1993/02/26, Bruce Kaskel writes:
Could someone possibly tell me what I am doing wrong here?

gap> s4 := SymmmetricGroup( 4 );;
gap> cc := ConjugacyClassesSubgroups( s4 );;
gap> cc2 := cc[2];;
gap> r := Representative( cc2 );;
gap> g := Group( r );
Group( (3,4) )
gap> 2syl := SylowSubgroup( g, 2 );
Error, Record: element 'orbit' must have an assigned value at
...

This is a bug in GAP 3.1 (patchlevel 0). It is fixed in the first
upgrade to V3R1P1 and in GAP 3.2. The problem was that
'PermGroupOps.SylowSubgroup' assumed that once the size of a permutation
group is known (and it is known for 'g', since it was known for 'r'),
also a stabilizer chain is known (but 'g' has no stabilizer chain,
because this is not copied by 'Group').

Martin.

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