[developers] Trouble Seeing Test Suite Instances

[Emily M. Bender]

I'd be tempted to say that this suggests that my suspicion of the shared
folder is spurious, except that move the directory up or down doesn't help
for you but did for the student I was working with.  So maybe there's two
different things going on?

Emily

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Alexander Sugar <sugara at uw.edu> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not sure what you mean by "sharing"
> between Ubuntu+LKB and the host OS. I'm running UbuntuLKB 17 on a Mac,
> but all my files are within Ubuntu. I just tried moving the tsdb/
> folder up and down within my directories in Ubuntu+LKB again to no
> avail. The workaround Joshua Crowgey found for me that is still
> effective is to declare my home directory as a the provided
> /opt/delphin/... path.
>
> - Alec
>
> On 1/22/15, CLMS help (David Brodbeck) <linghelp at uw.edu> wrote:
> > I'm not saying you're wrong, just that I don't have a ready explanation
> for
> > it.  I wonder if AppArmor is messing with us again?  I thought I turned
> it
> > off, but I should probably double check.
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Emily M. Bender <ebender at uw.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >> 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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