[developers] Trouble Seeing Test Suite Instances

[Emily M. Bender]

Reviving a very old thread, because I think I have part of the answer, in
case it's still relevant to Alec and also for future reference:

We encountered this again in 567 this term, and I think it has to do with
an interaction with "shared" directories between Ubuntu+LKB and the host
OS.  In the machine where I saw it again (running Windows), the student had
a shared directory that was a sister directory to the tsdb/ directory.  If
I moved tsdb/ up one level or pushed the shared directory down one, then
the profiles became visible in the [incr tsdb()] podium.

Emily


On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Alexander Sugar <sugara at uw.edu> wrote:

> There is definitely no 'tsdb' string in my uig/lkb/script file.
>
> - Alec
>
> On 9/12/14, Emily M. Bender <ebender at uw.edu> wrote:
> > Alec,
> >
> > Can you look in your lkb/script file for the string tsdb?
> >
> > Emily
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Alexander Sugar <sugara at uw.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> I tried creating tsdb instances with and without having loaded the
> >> grammar, and it didn't seem to make a difference. I certainly wouldn't
> >> say I've done anything "creative well above the average" with my
> >> grammar so far.
> >>
> >> - Alec
> >>
> >> On 9/11/14, Stephan Oepen <oe at ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> >> >> one thing we did differently
> >> >> the time that things worked fine was that we didn't load the grammar
> >> >> before trying to create tsdb instances.
> >> >
> >> > this makes me wonder whether the grammar maybe contains an assignment
> >> > to *tsdb-home* or call to the (tsdb :home ...) function?  when users
> >> > are creative well above the average, it is possible for the [incr
> >> > tsdb()] podium and the back-end lisp system to hold different values
> >> > for this (crucial) variable; this would potentially lead to
> >> > (seemingly) very surprising behavior.
> >> >
> >> > i would generally advise against setting [incr tsdb()] parameters as
> >> > part of grammar code.  per-user adjustments can be made in ‘.tsdbrc’
> >> > (in the user home directory), e.g. calls to (tsdb :home ...), (tsdb
> >> > :skeletons ...), and such should typically go there, in my view.
> >> >
> >> > best, oe
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Emily M. Bender
> > Associate Professor
> > Department of Linguistics
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>



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