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Article #424Re: trouble building initial nn database
From: Mitch Collinsworth
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:03
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:03
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I wrote: >Greetings. I've just built and installed nn-6.4.18 on a VAX running >Ultrix V4.2 and am now trying to get nnmaster to build the initial >database. What's happening is that it runs for quite some time, >seemingly doing all the right stuff until something bad happens and it >mails me a message such as the following: >>nnmaster terminated >> >>Fatal system error: >>clari.news.headlines (1340): cannot open 'd' file (mode=82, errno=5) Grr! Well the problem is now solved (and I am posting this from nn!). On a whim I finally took a walk up to the computer room and discovered the (previously unused) disk I was building the database on was logging (ready for this?) hardware errors. Gotta love those RA81s. I switched to another disk and everything worked just fine. Mystery solved. -Mitch Collinsworth mitch@graphics.cornell.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.graphics.cornell.edu!rex.graphics.cornell.edu!not-for-mail From: mkc@Graphics.Cornell.edu (Mitch Collinsworth) Newsgroups: news.software.nn Subject: Re: trouble building initial nn database Date: 11 Dec 1992 17:03:54 -0500 Organization: Cornell University Program of Computer Graphics Lines: 22 Message-ID: <1gb38aINNeu3@rex.graphics.cornell.edu> References: <1g2ovjINNa8f@rex.graphics.cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rex.graphics.cornell.edu