RE: [Corpora-List] Installation of BNC World Edition

From: Burnard Towers (lou.burnard@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 24 2003 - 10:04:11 MET

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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no]On
    > Behalf Of Ilka Mindt
    > Sent: 24 January 2003 07:53
    > To: CORPORA@UIB.NO
    > Subject: [Corpora-List] Installation of BNC World Edition
    >
    >
    > Dear all,
    >
    > we have problems installing the BNC World Edition December 2000 and SARA
    > version 0.98 on a DEC Alpha machine with UNIX V4.0F as well as on a Compaq
    > Tru64 UNIX V5.1A
    > The compilation as such was unproblematic and no errors were encountered.
    > But after starting sarad the following error message occurs:
    >
    > There were errors detected in startup tests. See testlog.txt.
    >
    > testlog.txt reads:
    > ...
    > Test 4: Test index signature
    > ERR: Index signature does not match (BNC2-111-183-92-4055, bad signature)
    > Test 5: Test that all index directories exist
    > Test 6: Test that the compressed file index exists
    > There are 4055 texts
    > Test 7: Test that all texts exist
    > Test 8: Test that the dictionary exists
    > Dictionary version stamp is 2819298249624968
    > 5637788103834861571 words in dictionary
    > Test 9: Test that the downloadable files exist
    > Test 10: Test that all accelerators exist
    > Test 11: Test that the bibliography exists
    > Test 12: Test that the bibliography index exists
    > Bib index has -1426052438 texts
    > WARNING: File /www/db/BNC-world/Etc/pbib does not exist or is wrong size
    > Test 13: Test that the temporary directory is writable
    > Tests complete. 1 errors and 1 warnings.
    >
    >
    >
    > Has anybody tried installing it on the same machine/version and not
    > encountered problems? Or does anyone know a solution??
    >
    > Any help is much appreciated.
    >
    > Thanks in advance,
    >
    > Ilka Mindt
    >
    >
    > Dr. Ilka Mindt
    > Institut fuer Anglistik
    > Englische Sprachwissenschaft
    > Universitaet Wuerzburg
    > Germany
    > mindt@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
    >
    >
    >



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