Corpora: sara server installation - failure

Daniela Lentge (lentge@rz.uni-potsdam.de)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:37:14 +0100 (MET)

Dear list-members,

we have recently bought the BNC and after encountering a small number of
difficulties, managed to install it correctly on a Unix-system. However,
we now run into problems when installing the SARA server.
No manual and no online page was of further help to us in solving the
problems recorded as errors in the log-text. The decisive lines are:

Test 4: Test index signature
ERR: Index signature does not match (-100-185-92-4125,
bnc1-100-185-92-4125)

Test 5: Test that all index directories exist
ERR: Index directory number 271523168 does not exist

Test 6: Test that the compressed file index exists
There are 4125 texts

Test 7: Test that all texts exist
Text 000 in file /corpus/1.0/corphdr not found
ERR: 1 texts missing

With errors 4 and 5 we do not know how to interpret the numbers, with
error 7 the message is true, there is no corphdr nor is there a text 000.
But should there be such files and if where are they hidden?
We would be very pleased to get an answer soon.
(The complete server text log has been appended below.)

With regards,

Hermann Walter
Ilse Wischer
Daniela Lentge

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Sara server test log produced Fri Jan 15 05:26:59 1999

Test 1: Test PRM settings
prm file is
corpus name is
etc path is /corpus/SARA/etc/
tmp path is /tmp/
acc path is /corpus/Index/accounts/
txt path is /corpus/1.0/
index path 0 is /corpus/Index/000/,45
index path 1 is /corpus/Index/045/,80
index path 2 is /corpus/Index/080/,143
index path 3 is /corpus/Index/143/,168
index path 4 is /corpus/Index/168/,240
index path 5 is /corpus/Index/240/,350
bib path is /corpus/SARA/etc/
port is 7000
accelerator 0 is s,2,0
accelerator 1 is u,2,0
accelerator 2 is u,3,0
accelerator 3 is p,2,0
accelerator 4 is p,3,0
timeout is 600
nbuff is 40
logging is on
C6 compatibility switch is off
oldnames compatibility switch is off
oldid compatibility switch is off
website is
Test 2: Test corpus description file
Test 3: Test data limits
100 elements (max 120)
185 attributes (max 200)
10 entities (max 15)
436 character entities (max 600)
92 pos codes (max 400)
Test 4: Test index signature
ERR: Index signature does not match (-100-185-92-4125,
bnc1-100-185-92-4125)
Test 5: Test that all index directories exist
ERR: Index directory number 271523168 does not exist
Test 6: Test that the compressed file index exists
There are 4125 texts
Test 7: Test that all texts exist
Text 000 in file /corpus/1.0/corphdr not found
ERR: 1 texts missing
Test 8: Test that the dictionary exists
638971 words in dictionary
Mean frequency: 154.914453 SD: 775.666406
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
Test 13: Test that character page files exist
Test 14: Test that the temporary directory is writable
Tests complete. 3 errors and 0 warnings.