[developers] Trouble Seeing Test Suite Instances

[Emily M. Bender]

What led me to suspect that is that a tarball of her tsdb/ directory
unpacked and worked just fine on my instance of Ubuntu+LKB, where I don't
have any shared folders.


On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:38 PM, CLMS help (David Brodbeck) <
linghelp at uw.edu> wrote:

> 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
>>> > Check out CLMS on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/uwclma
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Emily M. Bender
>> Professor, Department of Linguistics
>> Check out CLMS on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/uwclma
>>
>
>
>
> --
> David Brodbeck
> System Administrator, Linguistics
> University of Washington
>



-- 
Emily M. Bender
Professor, Department of Linguistics
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