[developers] Trouble Seeing Test Suite Instances

[Alexander Sugar]

If I just type 'which tsdb' at the command line, I see nothing. If I
type '$which tsdb', I get a

No command 'tsdb' found, did you mean:
 Command 'tdb' from package 'tads2-dev' (multiverse)
tsdb: command not found

 message.

On 9/8/14, Emily M. Bender <ebender at uw.edu> wrote:
> 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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