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Can you tell me what the '$aspell_prog' and '$tempfiledir'
variables are set to in spellchecker.php? (Assuming you're
using the PHP script and not the Perl script).
For Windows, I'd recommend setting the '$aspell_prog'
variable like this:
$aspell_prog = '"C:\Program Files\Aspell\bin\aspell.exe"';
This is the default location of a windows aspell installation
(keep the double quotes within the single quotes of the
directory path).
Also, the following doc goes into more detail on installation on
Windows, it might help or give you some more ideas:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?
docid=19473&group_id=86602
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I'm using the perl script. not PHP.
ASpell will run from the command line (using the same
command, (different file to check the spelling of course).
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Top of perl file :
use CGI qw/ :standard /;
use File::Temp qw/ tempfile tempdir /;
my $spellercss = '..//spellerStyle.css';
my $wordWindowSrc = '../wordWindow.js';
my @textinputs = param( 'textinputs[]' ); # array
#my $aspell_cmd = 'c:/Progra~1/Aspell/bin/aspell';
my $aspell_cmd = 'aspell';
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Does it still fail if you use the following:
my $aspell_cmd = '"C:\Program Files\Aspell\bin\aspell.exe"';
(assuming this is the location of the executable)?
I've never seen this "bad file descriptor" error but maybe
it's complaining about the '2>&1' part of the following:
# exec aspell command
my $cmd = "$aspell_cmd $aspell_opts < $tmpfilename 2>&1";
Try removing '2>&1' to see if it helps. Unfortunately,
removing it will prevent you from seeing any standard error
output.
If that doesn't help, my only suggestion would be to keep
debugging by running the command yourself to try and
simulate the call to aspell.
Let me know if you're able to get this resolved.
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Closing since I haven't heard back in a while. Assuming it's
resolved.
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I'm re-opening this as I'm still seeing this problem.. - any
suggestions about how to debug this ?
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Here's how to troubleshoot (assuming you're using the PHP version):
1. Modify spellchecker.php. Comment out the line "unlink(
$tempfile );" like so:
# close temp file, delete file
# unlink( $tempfile );
2. Run the spell checker once again and make note of the
error message. It will show you the command that failed.
3. Log in to the server and open a command prompt. Change
to the directory spellchecker.php is in and execute the
command exactly as you saw in #2. For instance:
$ aspell -a --
lang=en_US < /var/tmp/aspell_data_jATMUZ
Or on Windows:
> "C:\Program Files\Aspell\bin\aspell.exe" -a --lang=en_US <
C:\WINNT\TEMP\asp45.tmp
NOTE: On Windows, make sure the double quotes surround
C:\Program Files\Aspell\bin\aspell.exe both in the PHP code and
when you're running it from the command prompt. The double
quotes escape the space between Program and Files.
4. Running the command manually from the command prompt
should show you the error output that was not trapped by the PHP
script. Then you can troubleshoot further from there.
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Here's how to troubleshoot (assuming you're using the PHP version):
1. Modify spellchecker.php. Comment out the line "unlink(
$tempfile );" like so:
# close temp file, delete file
# unlink( $tempfile );
2. Run the spell checker once again and make note of the
error message. It will show you the command that failed.
3. Log in to the server and open a command prompt. Change
to the directory spellchecker.php is in and execute the
command exactly as you saw in #2. For instance:
$ aspell -a --
lang=en_US < /var/tmp/aspell_data_jATMUZ
Or on Windows:
> "C:\Program Files\Aspell\bin\aspell.exe" -a --lang=en_US <
C:\WINNT\TEMP\asp45.tmp
NOTE: On Windows, make sure the double quotes surround
C:\Program Files\Aspell\bin\aspell.exe both in the PHP code and
when you're running it from the command prompt. The double
quotes escape the space between Program and Files.
4. Running the command manually from the command prompt
should show you the error output that was not trapped by the PHP
script. Then you can troubleshoot further from there.
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I've dug into this further.. the command does run (from the
command prompt) on the machine, however not from the web
broswer.
the command that is failing is :
my $cmd = "$aspell_cmd $aspell_opts < $tmpfilename 2>&1";
open ASPELL, "$cmd |" or handleError( "Could not execute
`$cmd`\\n$!" ) and return;
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if I change the cmd to :
my $cmd = "dir";
I get the same error, so I'm suspecting that this a perl
error, but I'm not sure where to look..
the webserver is running IIS with active perl.
Geoff.
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Hi,
Any luck tracking this down? I googled around for the "bad
file descriptor" error but I wasn't able to get that far.
You're right, though, if you're getting that error if you
simply try and execute "dir" then it must be some problem
with how perl is executing the command. I guess you could
try some other mechanisms like system() or `command` to see
if that gets you anywhere.
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No I haven't figured it out.. I will dig into the active
perl docs/support to see if I can figure it out (I'll post a
solution if I find one)
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I am getting the same error on Linux with FC
System error: Aspell program execution failed ...
I am still researching myself.
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I had the same problem. There's a php file under the
server classes that sets a variable called $ttemp to ./ and
that causes the problem when it tries to first create the
temp file in the curent directory and then, when it can't,
it tries to create the temp file in /tmp for aspell, and
under FC3, at least, it can't create the file in /tmp. It
appears to be unable to create a file that high in the
directory tree. So I created a tmp directory under the
Document Root for my web server (/var/www/html/tmp) with 777
privs, and edited the temp varialbe in the script to create
the file there, and it did so without any problems. I
talked with the developer -- i'm the sysadmin, and he said
he could override the temp varialbe to have it create the
file in a tmp directory under the Document root.
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I am also having trouble on a Windows installation.
I can run aspell from the command line fine.
Speller is creating a temp file and when I run aspell on
this file it gives suggested words for the mispelled words.
I've tried both php and perl scripts and both give errors.
Here is what the perl script is returning:
var suggs = new Array(); var words = new Array(); var
textinputs = new Array(); var error; textinputs[0] =
decodeURIComponent('%20%09Today%20we%20read%20four%20books.%20He%20read%20very%20well%20and%20I%20felt%20he%20is%20ready%20for%20more%20challenging%20books.%20We%20also%20worked%20on%20mathematics%20flash%20cards%2C%20nore%20specifically%3A%20subtraction.')
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Some common issues we found trying to get speller pages to
work with different Linux distributions:
1) Try setting selenux setting to permissive, in FC3 edit
the file /etc/sysconfig/selinux and change the line
SELINUX=enforcing to SELINUX=permissive. I suggest
researching selinux and finding the correct way to fix this.
2) Edit the file the file in your SpellerPages directory
server-scripts called spellchecker.php and set the
$tempfiledir to a path under the web root directory. Also,
create that path and give the user-id that Apache runs user
full read write permissions. I assume that some security
foo is keeping it from accessing any path outside the
webroot path. You may want to chmod this directory for
better performance ie the +t option.
Both of these settings were required to get SpellerPages to
work under FC3. We don't use Windows but maybe this will help.
James Stormes
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James, thanks for the input for how you resolved the
problems in FC3 Linux. Geoff, are you still having the
issue? Did it help to set the $tempfiledir variable in
spellchecker.php to a directory in the website root that has
proper permissions?
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I haven't tried it yet - I will post an update when I do.
Geoff.
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I have worked with this some more - the script is able to
create the file (so permissions aren't a problem), however I
still get the file descriptor error.
Geoff.