<div dir="ltr">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:<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Emily</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Alexander Sugar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sugara@uw.edu" target="_blank">sugara@uw.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There is definitely no 'tsdb' string in my uig/lkb/script file.<br> <br> - Alec<br> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br> On 9/12/14, Emily M. Bender <<a href="mailto:ebender@uw.edu">ebender@uw.edu</a>> wrote:<br> > Alec,<br> ><br> > Can you look in your lkb/script file for the string tsdb?<br> ><br> > Emily<br> ><br> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Alexander Sugar <<a href="mailto:sugara@uw.edu">sugara@uw.edu</a>> wrote:<br> ><br> >> I tried creating tsdb instances with and without having loaded the<br> >> grammar, and it didn't seem to make a difference. I certainly wouldn't<br> >> say I've done anything "creative well above the average" with my<br> >> grammar so far.<br> >><br> >> - Alec<br> >><br> >> On 9/11/14, Stephan Oepen <<a href="mailto:oe@ifi.uio.no">oe@ifi.uio.no</a>> wrote:<br> >> >> one thing we did differently<br> >> >> the time that things worked fine was that we didn't load the grammar<br> >> >> before trying to create tsdb instances.<br> >> ><br> >> > this makes me wonder whether the grammar maybe contains an assignment<br> >> > to *tsdb-home* or call to the (tsdb :home ...) function? when users<br> >> > are creative well above the average, it is possible for the [incr<br> >> > tsdb()] podium and the back-end lisp system to hold different values<br> >> > for this (crucial) variable; this would potentially lead to<br> >> > (seemingly) very surprising behavior.<br> >> ><br> >> > i would generally advise against setting [incr tsdb()] parameters as<br> >> > part of grammar code. per-user adjustments can be made in ‘.tsdbrc’<br> >> > (in the user home directory), e.g. calls to (tsdb :home ...), (tsdb<br> >> > :skeletons ...), and such should typically go there, in my view.<br> >> ><br> >> > best, oe<br> >> ><br> >><br> >><br> ><br> ><br> > --<br> > Emily M. Bender<br> > Associate Professor<br> > Department of Linguistics<br> > Check out CLMS on facebook! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/uwclma" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/uwclma</a><br> ><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Emily M. Bender<br>Professor, Department of Linguistics<br>Check out CLMS on facebook! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/uwclma" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/uwclma</a><br></div></div> </div>