Re: [greenstone-devel] Problem with 2.51 built from source on FreeBSD From: John R. McPherson Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 09:48:43 +1200

Re: [greenstone-devel] Problem with 2.51 built from source on FreeBSD

From	John R. McPherson
Date	Thu, 02 Sep 2004 09:48:43 +1200
Subject	Re: [greenstone-devel] Problem with 2.51 built from source on FreeBSD
In-Reply-To	(41349EB0-3090000-bellsouth-net)
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 03:52, Beth Nicol wrote: > I built 2.51 on FreeBSD (at pair.com); the messages indicate that the > build and install were successful. However when I attempt to search a > collection (the demo collection, or a collection built on Linux - RedHat > Fedora 9) , only the Search option is available (none of my other > indexes) and when I search I get the following result pages: > > Content-type: text/html > > > Oops! > > An error occurred during the construction of the cgi page. The error > log, /usr/www/users/nicollb/gsdl/etc/error.txt, contains the following > information: > > database open failed on: /usr/www/users/nicollb/gsdl/collect/demo/index/text/demo.ldb > system problem: open on gdbm database "/usr/www/users/nicollb/gsdl/collect/demo/index/text/demo.ldb" failed > Ideas? Suggestions? Help. What kind of machine is the freebsd running on? Unfortunately the GDBM database files are endian-specific - Intel/AMD chip-based machines are little endian, while sparc/powerpc/motorola chip-based machines are big endian. Greenstone's compressed text and indices are endian-agnostic, but the GDBM files are not, and they contain the metadata for each document as well as the classify/browse structure information. That could explain why your freebsd machine can't read a .ldb file created on a redhat machine, but without knowing the hardware involved it is difficult to say. John McPherson