From: Neal F. C. <ca...@am...> - 2006-06-23 00:23:01
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Can anyone point me to instructions as to how this is suppose to work? I've tried just running the default RCS button but the system just seems= = to chug away with no apparent out put. Using the help button just takes you to = http://gramps-project.org/gramps-manual/gramps-manual-en/index.html but = I = can't find anything there on this subject. btw: I'm running Gramps 2.0.11-2 on PcLinuxOS. Thanks |
From: Alex R. <sh...@gr...> - 2006-06-23 03:23:41
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Neal, On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 00:22 +0000, Neal F. Carrier wrote: > Can anyone point me to instructions as to how this is suppose to work? >=20 > I've tried just running the default RCS button but the system just seems = =20 > to chug away with no apparent out put. It should pop out dialogs, either saying that the RCS file has been initialized (when you try it first) or that the version has been committed. If nothing happens then something has gone wrong. If you got the "initialized" dialog first time, but then it chugs away on the subsequent runs, then either XML export is taking long time, or something happens during export. To find out, start gramps from terminal (type 'gramps' in the terminal) and see if anything is printed in terminal during checkpoint tool run. Alex --=20 Alexander Roitman http://www.gramps-project.org |
From: Alex R. <sh...@gr...> - 2006-06-23 14:49:42
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On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 12:30 +0000, Neal F. Carrier wrote: > Running gramps from a terminal, the first error message I get is > "Spelling Checker is not installed" but gramps opens ok. This is fine. If you get gnome-python-extras or whatever it is called on your distro, you will see spell checking in notes. No big deal. > I open up Tools/Checkpoint Data/ and try to run the RCS / Archive I get a= n =20 > error box. > "Checkpoint Archive Creation Failed No checkpointing archive was found. A= n =20 > attempt to create it has failed with the following message: /bin/sh: rcs:= =20 > command not found" I see. We assummed that rcs is installed on every Linux machine. Apprently it is not, and it is needed for this tool. Try installing the "rcs" package and see if it helps. > If I run the Custom Commands button (don't know what to put in the two =20 > command boxs) I get a stream of messages starting with >=20 > Traceback (most recent call last): > with 8 lines of /usr/share/gramps/****python lines > then > IOError: [errno 32] Broken pipe This makes perfect sense. Gramps is exporting data into XML and then pipes it into rcs. But rcs does not exist, so there's a broken pipe. > I don't remember ever getting the "initialized" dialog when I ran this =20 > before. This is strange. Well, lte's see how it goes with the rcs installed. Alex --=20 Alexander Roitman http://www.gramps-project.org |
From: Duncan L. <du...@li...> - 2006-06-23 18:24:47
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On 23/06/06, Alex Roitman <sh...@gr...> wrote: > I see. We assummed that rcs is installed on every Linux machine. > Apprently it is not, and it is needed for this tool. > Try installing the "rcs" package and see if it helps. Is it possible to add some kind of error detection, or package check so it doesn't 'chug away' in vain. Then maybe an error message, I don't know if there's a standard working for this but it could just say "Checkpointing the database depends on the rcs package. GRAMPS can't find rcs on your system." Shall I make an RFE for this? Duncan |
From: Duncan L. <du...@li...> - 2006-06-24 20:18:04
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On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 07:49 -0700, Alex Roitman wrote: >=20 > I see. We assummed that rcs is installed on every Linux machine. > Apprently it is not, and it is needed for this tool. filed as bug 222 Duncan --=20 Linux user: 372812 | GPG key ID: 21A8C63A | http://lithgow-schmidt.dk |
From: Neal F. C. <ca...@am...> - 2006-06-23 19:26:01
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Alex, On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:49:35 -0000, Alex Roitman = <sh...@gr...> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 12:30 +0000, Neal F. Carrier wrote: >> Running gramps from a terminal, the first error message I get is >> "Spelling Checker is not installed" but gramps opens ok. > > This is fine. If you get gnome-python-extras or whatever it is > called on your distro, you will see spell checking in notes. > No big deal. I installed gnome-spell & gnome-python-extras and still get the spell = checker missing message, but I'm not too concerned as spell checking in = = genealogy is kind of useless. It'll make you add every name, address & = 16th century word you type in, I can live without it. > >> I open up Tools/Checkpoint Data/ and try to run the RCS / Archive I g= et = >> an error box. >> "Checkpoint Archive Creation Failed No checkpointing archive was foun= d. = >> An attempt to create it has failed with the following message: /bin/s= h: = >> rcs:command not found" > > I see. We assummed that rcs is installed on every Linux machine. > Apprently it is not, and it is needed for this tool. > Try installing the "rcs" package and see if it helps. Ok, pclinuxos didn't install rcs but has it availble in their repository= . = I installed it & can now do the checkpoint the database and retrieve it.= Next question is, what does this do for us? Is it like the Windows ME = restore point? When I re-ran it, it just seemed to overwrite the first = archive. >> If I run the Custom Commands button (don't know what to put in the tw= o >> command boxs) I get a stream of messages starting with >> > This is strange. Well, lte's see how it goes with the rcs installed. Tried this again after rcs install, get the same error messages & gramps= = still chugs..... |
From: Alex R. <sh...@gr...> - 2006-06-23 19:53:51
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Neal, On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 19:25 +0000, Neal F. Carrier wrote: > Ok, pclinuxos didn't install rcs but has it availble in their repository.= =20 > I installed it & can now do the checkpoint the database and retrieve it. > Next question is, what does this do for us? Is it like the Windows ME =20 > restore point? When I re-ran it, it just seemed to overwrite the first =20 > archive. It should keep all versions intact. Read more in 'man co' and 'man ci'. Gramps interface allows you retrieving the last version, but you can also retrieve any version manually from the ,v file, either manually with ci and co or by using any of the available version control GUI tools. > >> If I run the Custom Commands button (don't know what to put in the two > >> command boxs) I get a stream of messages starting with > >> > > This is strange. Well, lte's see how it goes with the rcs installed. Sorry, I was not careful and missed the fact that it was Custom Command. > Tried this again after rcs install, get the same error messages & gramps = =20 > still chugs..... Custom command should me something like: cat > filename; do_something_on_the_filename filename where filename is something you choose, and do_something_on_the_filename is whatever program you want to run on it. You can use any version control system or just copy the file elsewhere, it's up to you. Without the command, the XML output is piped into the empty pipe, hence the same message. I suppose we could catch this and prevent gramps from doing anything if command field is empty. I assume it is empty, or did you put something in? Alex --=20 Alexander Roitman http://www.gramps-project.org |