[developers] Trouble Seeing Test Suite Instances

[Emily M. Bender]

The flags in that command suggest it belongs on the linux command line.  If
you do 'which tsdb' at the linux prompt, what do you see?

Emily

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Alexander Sugar <sugara at uw.edu> wrote:

> Mr. Oepen,
>
>       Please excuse my computer illiteracy. From where should I be
> introducing the
>
> tsdb -home <path> -verify
>
> command?
>
> Thank you,
> Alec
>
> On 9/8/14, Stephan Oepen <oe at ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> > colleagues,
> >
> >> The problem seems to be with [incr tsdb()]'s ability to "see" certain
> >> directories on the UbuntuLKB distro.
> >
> > i only have partial context here, but it sounds as if (a) there is a
> > valid skeleton, and (b) running ‘File|Create’ on it shows the
> > ‘creating empty data file’ messages as it should.
> >
> > the ‘no history file’ message should not be a problem.
> >
> > i would recommend inspecting the directory corresponding to the [incr
> > tsdb()] Database Root, where there should be a new sub-directory after
> > the ‘File|Create’ action.
> >
> > [incr tsdb()] will try validating that directory (i.e. the one
> > containing the ‘relations’ and ‘item’ files, together will all those
> > empty ones) using a command like the following:
> >
> >   tsdb -home <path> -verify
> >
> > here, <path> should correspond to the above sub-directory, and the
> > ‘-verify’ should either return with a zero exit(3) code (see ‘man
> > true’), or it should print diagnostic messages that i hope will help
> > resolve the problem.
> >
> > this all is relatively standard [incr tsdb()] territory that has been
> > unchanged for a decade or more.  thus, i am inclined to suspect that
> > some idiosyncrasy of the local setup is at the root of this problem.
> >
> > best, oe
> >
>



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Emily M. Bender
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