[developers] Trouble Seeing Test Suite Instances

[CLMS help (David Brodbeck)]

That's rather peculiar, since shared folders look just like ordinary
filesystem mounts to software on the machine.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Emily M. Bender <ebender at uw.edu> wrote:

> 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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>> >
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Emily M. Bender
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David Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington
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