[Corpora-List] Installation of BNC World Edition

[Burnard Towers]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no]On
> Behalf Of Ilka Mindt
> Sent: 24 January 2003 07:53
> To: CORPORA at 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 at mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
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