More specifics on this bug:<div><br></div><div>I used to have the Japanese grammar under the following path:</div><div><br></div><div>~/corpora/Tanaka/tc-070707/jp070707</div><div><br></div><div>This used to be fine, but suddenly it stopped working in the manner described upthread.</div> <div><br></div><div>Francis fixed this problem by moving the directory to:</div><div><br></div><div>~/jp070707</div><div><br></div><div>It is not clear why this should have fixed the problem. The one interesting thing about the file system is that the corpora directory on my machine contains many softlinks:</div> <div><br></div><div><div>$ ll ~/corpora/</div><div>total 5</div><div>lrwxrwxrwx 1 billmcn billmcn 36 Jul 22 17:23 LDC-parses -> /corpora/LDC/LDC99T42/RAW/parsed/mrg</div><div>drwxr-xr-x 3 billmcn billmcn 3 Feb 17 17:14 Tanaka</div> <div>lrwxrwxrwx 1 billmcn billmcn 22 Jul 22 17:23 treebank-2 -> /corpora/LDC/LDC95T07/</div><div>lrwxrwxrwx 1 billmcn billmcn 21 Jul 22 17:23 treebank-3 -> /corpora/LDC/LDC99T42</div><div>lrwxrwxrwx 1 billmcn billmcn 39 Jul 22 17:23 wsj -> /corpora/LDC/LDC95T07/RAW/combined/wsj/</div> <div><br></div><div>This targets of these softlinks exist, but the softlinks were broken, presumably because of some recent NFS changes on our system.</div><div><br></div><div>This is not a problem with the Japanese grammar or DELPH-IN tools, but it may be useful to keep this in mind as a way in which NFS problems may hurt the functioning of these tools.</div> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Francis Bond <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bond@ieee.org">bond@ieee.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> G'day,<br> <br> 2009/7/15 W.P. McNeill (UW) <<a href="mailto:billmcn@u.washington.edu">billmcn@u.washington.edu</a>>:<br> <div class="im">> It hangs interactively as well. The English grammar does not have these<br> > problems.<br> <br> </div>The problem appears to be disk related --- after moving the grammar<br> to a local disk it loads fine. I think the villain was nfs.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> <br> --<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5">Francis Bond <<a href="http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/" target="_blank">http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/</a>><br> Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies<br> Nanyang Technological University<br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>W.P. McNeill<br><a href="http://staff.washington.edu/billmcn/index.shtml">http://staff.washington.edu/billmcn/index.shtml</a><br>Sent from Barcelona, Spain </div>