[Dxspider-support] New Installation - Help Needed

[Dirk Koopman]

Dave Hawes wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade a friends Spider, and he brought the computer 
> over today.  It's a P3 with Win98, and I was asked to not fool with 
> the OS.
> 
> I downloaded ActivePerl 5.6.1.638-MSWin32-x86.msi, and installed it.  
> I tried to load all the additional modules using PPM, but was not 
> able to install timedate, for some reason.
> 
> I copied the pertinent files to spider\local and then:
> 
> cd \spider\perl
> perl create_sysop.pl
> 
> OK, but when I start the cluster, I get:
> 
> 1194824070^DXSpider V1.54, build 0.177 started
> 1194824070^Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
> 1194824070^loading prefixes ...
> 1194824070^US Database not loaded
> 1194824071^loading band data ...
> 1194824071^loading user file system ...
> 1194824071^can't open user file: /spider/data/users (No such file or 
> directory) [rebuild it from user_asc?] at cluster.pl line 382
> 
> Doing
> 
> cd\spider\data
> perl user_asc
> 

Are there any user_asc files in that directory? (i.e. user_asc.o .oo 
.ooo etc) what sizes are they? Have a look at a reasonable sized one and 
check that it has some data attached.

That means it looks something like:-

...
<some perl code ending in:>
...
DXUser->sync; DXUser->finish;
print "There are $count user records and $err errors\n";
__DATA__
1WA1FOK bless( {qth => 'fds;a',sort => 'U',name => 'sh/dx',call => 
'1WA1FOK',lastoper => 1169511052}, 'DXUser' )
2E0AOZ  bless( {qth => 'Pontefract',lat => '53.6875',name => 'Ian',qra 
=> 'IO93IQ',node => 'GB7YDX',sort => 'U',homenode => 'GB7YDX',long => 
'-1.29166666666666',call => '2E0AOZ',lastoper => 1153743452,lastin => 
1176057600}, 'DXUser' )
2E0BDO  bless( {qth => 'Wirral',lat => '53.3833333333333',name => 
'Simon',qra => 'IO83KJ',sort => 'U',long => '-3.11666666666667',call => 
'2E0BDO',lastoper => 1149604658}, 'DXUser' )
2E0CIA  bless( {qth => 'Stoke on Trent',sort => 'U',homenode => 
'GB7DXC',name => 'Dom',call => '2E0CIA',lastoper => 1169727849}, 'DXUser' )
...
...

I would delete any users.v3 files that you see before you do a 
reconstruction.

If TimeDate really isn't there then you will probably have an other 
problem, but I would have expected it to complain before you get to the 
users file check. It is a pure perl package, so I imagine the version 
you already have is sufficiently up to date and is not perl version 
sensitive.

Dirk