[developers] Mysterious Japanese grammar hang

[W.P. McNeill (UW)]

It hangs interactively as well.  The English grammar does not have these
problems.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Francis Bond <bond at ieee.org> wrote:

> G'day,
>
> CCed to developers in the interest of greater openness.
>
> 2009/7/14 W.P. McNeill (UW) <billmcn at u.washington.edu>:
> > The
> >
> Japanese parse ranking experiment that you helped me set up mysteriously stopped working over the weekend.  I haven't changed anything in the setup since the time that it worked, so I presume something else in the system around it changed.
> >
> When I try to run a Tanaka grid point with the load script it hangs at the following point during grammar loading:
> >
> > ...
> > Checking type hierarchy
> > Checking for unique greatest lower bounds
> > Expanding constraints
> > Making constraints well formed
> > [12:07:11] gc-after-hook(): {L#32 N=43m O=0 E=66%} [S=891m R=203m].
> > [12:07:12] gc-after-hook(): {L#33 N=68m O=0 E=39%} [S=891m R=283m].
> >
> > Expanding defaults
> > Type file checked successfully
> > Computing display ordering
> >
> > A full log is attached.
> > The process appears to be hung because yzlui is waiting for input from
> > STDIN.
>
> If you aren't using LUI, I recommend adding "unset LUI" to your
> script.  Saves some CPU and may have other beneficial effects.
>
> > Do you have any idea what is going on here?  The only thing that has
> changed
> > is that the sys admin did some file system reconfiguration.  It shouldn't
> > make a difference, but I'm wondering if there's some set of cached files
> > that the Japanese grammar needs that it can no longer see.
> > My workaround is to remove the line that loads the grammar from the load
> > script, but I'd like to know what is going wrong here.
>
> I'm not really sure.  Does the grammar load OK interactively?  I tried
> that version on a recent logon, and it loaded with no problems,
> although I didn't try a batch.
>
> --
> Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
> Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
> Nanyang Technological University
>



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