Steve Taylor wrote: > Hi, > > I am moving over from BASE 1.2.10 (Solaris 9) to 1.2.17 (Fedora) and > ultimately to BASE2. At the moment I can't seem to run some of the > plug-ins in 1.2.17 though they work fine on 1.2.10. For example: > > On running MGH: avg channel intensity, I get the error: > > Plug-in output Failed to prepare job XXXX: Unable to convert BASEfile > into the 'normal' format: Reading from input file failed: Bad section > specification > > Where XXXX is the job id. > > Is there something I have to do further to get these to work?
I recognize that error... and I've found a couple of jobs here that failed with the same message back in June and July. And here's how to fix it: Edit plug-in, add a parameter of type "hidden string", with internal name "section" and a value like "mypluginsettings" (or whatever). What's changed is this: exporting data in the "serial" format (one bioassay at a time) is a lot faster than exporting it in the "normal", parallel format (one query per reporters/position), so data is now exported in the serial format and then reformatted by a small program before being passed to the plugin. This reformatting program is rather more picky about the file format than the plugin might be, and will not accept files that have sections without a header line called "section". What's stupid is that even though this "section" header is required, the web part of BASE doesn't check if it's present. The plugin editing page should of course show a big red warning text if there's no "section", and it should probably even be created by default... Sorry for the inconvenience. //Carl -- Carl Troein - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thep.lu.se/~carl/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ The BASE general discussion mailing list basedb-users@lists.sourceforge.net unsubscribe: send a mail with subject "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
