Recent changes to bugs

xaira_daemon.exe crashes after any query in 1.26

2011-02-11T20:03:14Z

On WinXP/Win7 xaira_daemon.exe crashes after any query from a client with version 1.26, if xaira_daemon.exe, xaira-server.dll and corresponding libraries are copied over from the BNC-XML version, all runs fine.

crashes on sorting or other action requiring downloading dat

2010-04-27T09:51:40Z

I have indexed the Dictionary of Old English for data retrieval in Xaira (ca 4,5 mil words, over 3000 files). Search works fine, but when I try sorting by collumns or creating a partition, Xaira reports "downloading" for a few seconds and crashes.
"Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Error" in xaira.exe, sometimes you can also get two memory locations (?) 0x40000015 and 0x7857bea4.
Thanks!

memory buffer overflow when running make check

2009-09-16T13:16:15Z

I'm trying to build xaira-1.25 for ALT Linux distribution, compilation went OK, but runing
indexer during 'make check' stage fails with buffer overflow message.

Build environment is gcc-4.4, xerces-c 3.0.0.

Error message is shown below:

$ ./indexer -p ../test_corpus/corpus_parameters.xml
Phase 1 (4 files)
Text header
Text bibliography
Text coaelet3.xml
Text CLW.xml
Writing grammar
Phase 2
Sorting patch
Save dictionary
Band 1 of 4
Band 2 of 4
Band 3 of 4
Band 4 of 4
Merging
3010*** buffer overflow detected ***: ./indexer terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x40)[0xb77605f0]
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb775e810]
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb775df38]
/lib/libc.so.6(_IO_default_xsputn+0xa6)[0xb76ea9f6]
/lib/libc.so.6(__printf_fp+0xf7a)[0xb76c519a]
/lib/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x117f)[0xb76bfc9f]
/lib/libc.so.6(__vsprintf_chk+0xa7)[0xb775dfe7]
/lib/libc.so.6(__sprintf_chk+0x2d)[0xb775df2d]
./indexer[0x809058c]
./indexer[0x8090bc7]
./indexer[0x8090ca7]
./indexer[0x8065b7d]
./indexer[0x8055e17]
./indexer[0x8065d19]
./indexer[0x8050836]
./indexer[0x808f7bd]
./indexer[0x808fbf9]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0xb7699b26]
./indexer[0x804e031]

I wil be grateul for any suggestions for how to overcome his problem?

java connexion to server does not pass correct parameters

2008-09-12T13:57:05Z

As reported by Oliver Ferschke in August 2008, there is a problem using the Java interface to call the server. Using the supplied java demo program, whatever method is called returns <?auth status='fail'?>

This appears to be because of an error in the way parameters are passed to the server.

Browse mode fails to use non-default stylesheeo

2008-08-01T09:12:04Z

[See also OUCS RT ticket#1246762]
There is no way of changing the default stylesheet used to display texts in browse mode. If you attempt to use the stylesheets provided for display of solutions in query mode (the fancy-1 or fancy-2 options for BNC-XML
for example), then the client will convert these into XSL files, but then fails to load them with the error message "Cannot load ..." and the display is rewritten "This text will be replaced by transformed XML before display".

Similarly, if you select "XML" mode to display texts in
browse mode, most of the text appears to be crossed out rather than rendered in XML.

If we can't get it to work, this facility should be withdrawn!

activate region

2007-12-08T22:03:33Z

guy@sslmit.unibo.it

Using BNCxml, having set preferences for region textonly, when I start up
the client this region is displayed on the toolbar but doesn't apply when
you do a query. To make it work you have to close the region and reselect
it.

Thus a word query for Oxford give 16215 solutions on client startup, but
8815 once you cancel the region and then reselect it.

sort non-postagged corpora

2007-12-08T21:46:05Z

With corpora which aren't w-tagged, sorting by the left with a span of 1 doesn't; sorting by the left with a span of 2 sorts by a span of 1. Sorting by the right and the centre are ok.

listing crash

2007-12-08T21:29:39Z

guy@sslmit.unibo.it

using 1.24.11.14

choosing the listing option saves the listing, but crashes the client (both with official bnc-xml and with a non pos-tagged corpus indexed with 1.24.11.14)

Index wizard interesting crash

2007-10-25T22:16:00Z

If you press "Cancel" in the index wizard while it is in the middle of parsing the corpus, you get an error dialogue saying "An unsupported operation was attempted".

However, clicking "OK" on this box doesn't make it go away - it pops up again and again no matter how many times you click it. I had to use TAsk manager to kill Xaira-tools in the end.

Filenames with spaces

2007-06-10T19:07:15Z

If, when indexing a corpus with the wizard, you use the "Just use filenames" option instead of using XML for the text identifier, then something goes wrong if the filenames of the files you are indexing have spaces in them: when you open up the corpus in the client you just see the first part of the filename, up to the space, not the whole filename.