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[IDV #TJT-927341]: search in help doesn't work

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  • Subject: [IDV #TJT-927341]: search in help doesn't work
  • Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:56:15 -0600
> Yuan-
> 
> What system does the nightly build run on?
> 
> If you look at /share/idv/auxdata/docs/userguide/jh.out which is the
> output of the indexer, it says it can't find /opt/jdk/bin/java.  I'm not
> sure if that's just an artifact of you running the nightly build by hand
> this morning, but I'm guessing that the indexer isn't running and the
> exception is because the index is bad.  Harpo has /opt/jdk/bin/java, but
> if the nightly is running on some other system, then you'll need to
> change build.xml to point to the right java.  Run 'which java' and see
> what the default location is.
> 
> Don

Just back from dentist office.  I moved the nightly to ABBOTT after the system 
crash one week before the workshop, it uses the java I installed in my home 
directory since Mike is too busy to take care many things. I may have missed a 
few library there, I will check.


Yuan
> 
> On 8/8/11 11:35 AM, Unidata IDV Support wrote:
> >> Yuan-
> >>
> >> On 8/8/11 10:11 AM, Unidata IDV Support wrote:
> >>>> The search function in the User's Guide from the Help menu doesn't work.
> >>
> >>> It is working here, can you give a another try?
> >>
> >> I just downloaded the nightly build (Built: 2011-08-08 07:12 UTC) and
> >> installed it on my mac.  I go to the the Help->User's Guide menu to
> >> bring up the User's Guide.  I click on the magnifying glass and in the
> >> Find: field, I type in "zooming".  It just sits there with the busy icon
> >> (spinning disk on Mac).  This is the same behavior I saw under CentOS
> >> with the nightly build from a couple of weeks ago that we used in the
> >> workshop.
> >>
> >> Don
> >
> > I can see this error now from the nightly installation, some error like: 
> > exception while creating engine named 
> > com.sun.java.help.search.DefaultSearchEngine
> >
> > Yuan
> >
> >> --
> >> Don Murray
> >> NOAA/ESRL/PSD and CIRES
> >> 303-497-3596
> >> http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/people/don.murray/
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > Ticket Details
> > ===================
> > Ticket ID: TJT-927341
> > Department: Support IDV
> > Priority: Normal
> > Status: Open
> >
> 
> --
> Don Murray
> NOAA/ESRL/PSD and CIRES
> 303-497-3596
> http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/people/don.murray/
> 
> 


Ticket Details
===================
Ticket ID: TJT-927341
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open