[Clipart] Re: still getting clipartbrowser errors

[Jon Phillips]

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 17:54 -0400, Greg Steffensen wrote:
> Hey, the path to your indexed clipart directory isn't set correctly in
> the configuration file.  Make sure it points to whatever directory you
> just indexed... that directory should now contain an "index.dat" file;
> if that file can't be found (or is in the wrong format), you'll get
> the above error.  

Ok, first of all on most systems where the clipart is installed as a
package, then this file is not modifiable. I would recommend installing
this index in a users' local dir by default and not dig
into /usr/share/clipart for this. There is going to be permissions
problems (as I ran into) on this...I think we must assume that most ppl.
will be installing the clipart from a package as super-user.

Also, please reply to things on list :) I have done this... How can
others learn if they don't know the answers from the clip art browser
pro :)

Jon


> On 8/24/05, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
>         [rejon at workbox:~/Documents/projects/clipart-project/openclipartnav/clipartnav]
>         $ ./clipartnav.py
>         Traceback (most recent call last):
>           File "./clipartnav.py", line 497, in ?
>             searcher = Searcher(config) 
>           File "./clipartnav.py", line 58, in __init__
>             self.repos.append((mod.API(config), cache))
>           File
>         "/home/rejon/Documents/projects/clipart-project/openclipartnav/clipartnav/modules/localocal.py", line 12, in __init__ 
>             index = shelve.open(indexFile)
>           File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shelve.py", line 231, in open
>             return DbfilenameShelf(filename, flag, protocol,
>         writeback, binary)
>           File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shelve.py", line 212, in __init__ 
>             Shelf.__init__(self, anydbm.open(filename, flag),
>         protocol,
>         writeback, binary)
>           File "/usr/lib/python2.4/anydbm.py", line 83, in open
>             return mod.open(file, flag, mode)
>           File "/usr/lib/python2.4/dbhash.py", line 16, in open 
>             return bsddb.hashopen(file, flag, mode)
>           File "/usr/lib/python2.4/bsddb/__init__.py", line 293, in
>         hashopen
>             d.open(file, db.DB_HASH, flags, mode)
>         bsddb._db.DBNoSuchFileError: (2, 'No such file or directory') 
>         Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "DbfilenameShelf instance
>         has no
>         attribute 'writeback'" in  ignored
>         
>         I have pygtk, python 2.4, and pretty much everything else in
>         place. I
>         even indexed my clipart. 
>         
>         What is the dealio?
>         
>         Jon
>         
>         
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