[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:15:43AM +1100, raf wrote: > > hi, > > > > i'm having trouble with gnuift. it's the same trouble that > > someone had and mentioned on this list three years ago > > but that thread morphed into a discussion about recompiling > > gift and the problem wasn't solved as far as i could tell. > > i was hoping i might have more luck :) > > > > this is on ubuntu-7.04, linux-2.6.20-15-generic, > > and gnuift-0.1.14-6.2 (the package that installs on ubuntu) > > > > i ran: > > > > $ gift-add-collection.pl /void/photos > > > > which, after much ugly but promising output, said: > > > > The collection frequency is: inf > > gift-generate-inverted-file: CInvertedFileChunk.cc:117: bool > > CInvertedFileChunk::writeBinary(std::ostream&, TID, size_t) > > const: Assertion `!"collection frequency out of range"' > > failed. > > > > PROGRESS: 99% > > > > > > Copying /home/raf/gift-config.mrml to > > /home/raf/gift-config.mrml-old > > > > Couldn't open /home/raf/gift-config.mrml: > > No such file or directory at > > /usr/X11R6/bin/gift-add-collection.pl line 585 > > > > everything is owned by me. > > my home directory (/home/raf) does exist. > > > > could the non-existence of the gift-config.mrml file > > be related to the "collection frequency out of range" error? > > > > why would the collection frequency be inf? > > does that mean infinite? > > does that just mean that it's the first time > > the collection has been scanned? > > if so, how that can cause it to fail? > > there has to be a first time. > > if it can't work the first time, > > then, by induction, it can never work :) > > > > what can i do about this? > > > > why would it attempt to create a gift-config.mrml file > > and then immediately copy it to gift-config.mrml-old? > > there's nothing old about it if it just created it? > > or is it just assuming that there is an old one > > and that it needs to back it up? if so, that assumption > > is always false the first time it is run. > > > > i have tried to run it again with the same results. > > > > i tried creating an empty /home/raf/gift-config.mrml > > just to get past the copy and then received this error: > > > > Ran out of memory for input buffer at > > /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser/Expat.pm line 469, <LOCALELIST> > > line 265. > > > > which is ridiculous since i have 2GB of ram and 20GB of swap. > > what can i do? > > > > cheers, > > raf > > > > raf, may i reccomend trying one of the newer versions of GIFT?
ok. > theres presently a 0.1.16 on alpha.gnu.org. i can only see 0.1.15b, 0.1.15c and 0.1.15e there. there is no version 0.1.16 and google can't find gift-0.1.16.tar.gz as text or as a link anywhere else either. i tried 0.1.15e but ./configure failed saying: config.status: error: cannot find input file: Doc/Makefile.in the Doc directory is empty. can you verify where 0.1.16 is? > its possible things broke down into a discussion on compiling, > due to a bug in the earlier version. > > if that dosent work, i'll send you a default gift-config.mrml. thanks. that would be good. i'll try 0.1.16 if you can help me find it. > and if that dosent work, i'll reproduce your error locally, and > try to work through it myself. thanks. knowing my luck, i'm probably the first person in 3 years to have this problem and you won't be able to reproduce it :) if that's the case, and i can get the latest code, i'm happy to have a go at fixing it here. > > p.s. when i first ran gift, it crashed. that's terrible. > > the debian manpage contained credits but no information > > so only a web search helped me to discover that i needed > > to run gift-add-collection.pl first. i later found this > > crucial information in gift-guide.txt in the gnuift-doc > > package so it's my own fault i suppose but, like most > > people, i expect manpages to exist and to explain how to > > use software. > > > > if nobody wants to write real manpages, please at least > > convert gift-guide.txt to man format and install that. > > > > failing that, at least stop gift from crashing when it's > > not initialised. it would be much nicer if there was a > > warning then and there that refers to the need to initialise > > and a mention of gift-add-collection.pl. > > > > p.p.s. i'm sorry if i sound like a whingy bastard. it's just > > that i've been so thoroughly thwarted by software that i > > have such high hopes for. when i heard of google's picasa, i > > assumed that it let you search for images based on analysis > > of the images themselves rather than pre-existing textual > > attributes. when i found out that it was nowhere near as > > clever as that, i was disappointed but then discovered > > gnuift by chance. it sounds utterly brilliant and i am eager > > to see it in action. then i was disappointed again because > > it's not working for me. so forgive my whinging. i'm really > > just trying to make things better/easier for everyone by > > pointing out the need to make the mundane, less brilliant > > parts of the software work. > > > > > *nodnod*. I'm convinced. :) > > Julia Longtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > _______________________________________________ > help-GIFT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gift _______________________________________________ help-GIFT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gift
