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Re: no search on lxf dvd's

nelz — Sat Aug 20, 2005 10:26 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 10:26 am

... down to Mike

Re: no search on lxf dvd's

hendrik — Sat Aug 20, 2005 6:34 am

Author: hendrik

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 6:34 am

.......and the solution is ...........?

Re: no search on lxf dvd's

nelz — Sun Aug 14, 2005 9:16 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 9:16 am

The permissions issue is completely separate. with this, the same disc's search would work on one computer but not another's. It worked in Konqueror for me. The problem you reported appears to be a rogue character introduced into the XML one month, and copied into every month's file since then.

Re: no search on lxf dvd's

hendrik — Sun Aug 14, 2005 6:10 am

Author: hendrik

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 6:10 am

LS,

As you ccan see in my previous postings:
On all issues of LXF DVD until october 2004 the search program works on various machines, each with various OS-es and various versions of Java.
Starting the october 2004 issue you get the error message as mentioned in my previous post, again on all various machines etc.
This clearly indicates that the problem has nothing to do with machine/OS/Java combinations but obviously caused by a change of the database.(permissions?)
Succes
p.s.
the search program has never worked in KDE's Konqueror, giving the same error message.

Re: no search on lxf dvd's

nelz — Sun Jul 24, 2005 10:18 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 10:18 am

That's because there is an error buried deep within the index file. The permissions error only showed up before the syntax error appeared, and only for some people.

Re: no search on lxf dvd's

pmilne — Sun Jul 24, 2005 12:20 am

Author: pmilne

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 12:20 am

I've tried:

java version "1.4.2_03"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_03-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_03-b02, mixed mode)

and

java version "1.5.0_01"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_01-b08)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_01-b08, mixed mode, sharing)

Both versions reported "error parsing index file"

Re: no search on lxf dvd's

nelz — Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:43 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:43 pm

The permissions error appears to be related to Java security settings.

Re: no search on lxf dvd's

M-Saunders — Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:54 am

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:54 am

I've never been able to get the search applet to work on anything -- Linux distros with Sun's Java (various release), Windows with Microsoft's version in IE, etc. It always complains about being unable to read the XML file. I did speak to Rich Drummond about it, and he wrote the applet a few years ago so perhaps it's a problem with new Java releases.

I think it's something we should either have fully working, or take a different approach, so I'd like to ask readers: does it work for you? And either way, could you please let me know which Java you're using so I can maybe pinpoint the problem? Thanks!

Mike

Re: no search on lxf dvd's

nelz — Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:20 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:20 am

Sorry, I never got a chance to fix this, so you'll have to hassle Mike to do it now.

I suspect it's something in the index file from DVD58.

Re: no search on lxf dvd's

pmilne — Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:28 pm

Author: pmilne

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:28 pm

I have this problem also - DVD 69 & 70 - have tried different java versions - 1.4 & 5.0 on Mandrake 9.2

Re: no search on lxf dvd's

nelz — Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:24 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:24 pm

No, but there were some other priorities, sorry. I'll see what can be done.

Re: no search on lxf dvd's

hendrik — Sun Jun 19, 2005 10:10 am

Author: hendrik

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 10:10 am

Nelz,

having a hard time solving this problem? ... have you given up?

Re: no search on lxf dvd's

hendrik — Sat Apr 23, 2005 6:05 am

Author: hendrik

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 6:05 am

Yes, it must be the index file, i have copied the program and index file from 57 to HD, where it works fine and then overwritten the indexfile with the one from 58 or later and then i get the same error message.

thanks, Nelz

Re: no search on lxf dvd's

nelz — Fri Apr 22, 2005 9:01 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 9:01 am

So 57 works and 58 doesn't. The program hasn't changed, so it must be something in the index file. Either something on that month's disc was added that screwed the format or it just got too big. I'll take a look.

Re: no search on lxf dvd's

hendrik — Fri Apr 22, 2005 6:26 am

Author: hendrik

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 6:26 am

Yes, the ones that worked still work, with Java 5, Firefox, SuSe 9.2, Mandrake 10.1, Wni XP, Win 98... do you need more?

Issues later than LXF57 do not work.

hendrik