massa@aurora.cis.upenn.edu (Mike Massa) (04/25/91)
I copied the CDROM version of the infoexplorer database onto a new filesystem on our hard drive, mounted the filesystem in the same place the cdrom was previously mounted, and tried to fire up infoexplorer. It returned "Cannot find database 'nav' in info configuration file." I checked the file ownership and permissions. Everything appears to be identical between the cdrom and hard disk versions. Anyone know why info fails? Thanks. -- Mike Massa University of Pennsylvania Distributed Systems Laboratory
david@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (David Berkowitz) (04/25/91)
In article <41921@netnews.upenn.edu>, massa@aurora.cis.upenn.edu (Mike Massa) writes: |> I copied the CDROM version of the infoexplorer database onto a new |> filesystem |> on our hard drive, mounted the filesystem in the same place the cdrom |> was |> previously mounted, and tried to fire up infoexplorer. It returned |> "Cannot |> find database 'nav' in info configuration file." I checked the file |> ownership |> and permissions. Everything appears to be identical between the cdrom |> and hard |> disk versions. Anyone know why info fails? Thanks. Previous versions of the CD had extra characters at the end of the file names. Are you certain that the database files (as defined in /usr/lpp/info/data/ispaths) are correctly named? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- David Berkowitz uunet!ibmsupt!david (415) 855-4485 | | Take off your shoes. IBM Personal Systems Programming, Palo Alto | for industry! This does not represent an official IBM position. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------
slh@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (04/26/91)
In article <1991Apr24.220720@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> david@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (David Berkowitz) writes: |In article <41921@netnews.upenn.edu>, massa@aurora.cis.upenn.edu (Mike |Massa) writes: [stuff] |Previous versions of the CD had extra characters at the end of the file names. |Are you certain that the database files (as defined in |/usr/lpp/info/data/ispaths) |are correctly named? More specifically I think these characters were ";1".
freese@dalvm41b.vnet.ibm.com ("Bradley T. Freese") (05/15/91)
massa@aurora.cis.upenn.edu (Mike Massa) writes: > I copied the CDROM version of the infoexplorer database onto a new filesystem > on our hard drive, mounted the filesystem in the same place the cdrom was > previously mounted, and tried to fire up infoexplorer. It returned "Cannot > find database 'nav' in info configuration file." I checked the file ownership > and permissions. Everything appears to be identical between the cdrom and hard > disk versions. Anyone know why info fails? Thanks. Go into /usr/lpp/info/En_US/nav and rename all the files to remove the ";1" at the end of the filenames. Apparently, the ";1" at the end of the file name is important to being on the CD-ROM, but it does not work on hard disk files. It should work.