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Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

Title:Online Bookbuilding
Notice:This conference is write-locked: see note 1.3.
Moderator:VAXUUM::UTT
Created:Fri Aug 12 1988
Last Modified:Mon Jul 15 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:440
Total number of notes:2134

258.0. "No BB PAK - Infinite Loop" by BABBLE::WSHINDLER () Mon Jan 15 1990 11:56

    A couple of weeks back I built an online book using the October
    27th tools. The book was coded to spec with LMF tags and my build
    produced the expected DECW$BOOK and BOOKSHELF files. I did not
    have the Bookbrowser PAK installed on ONLYME.  The book built
    without problems and the Reader displayed the title.  When I clicked on the
    title to open the book, the Reader would not let me open the book.
    No error message was given -- it just hung there like a dead thing. 
    
    I believe Joe resolved that displaying a book encoded with LMF info
    on a system without the Bookbrowser PAK installed causes the Reader to go
    into an infinite loop. This is a Reader bug. I'm not sure when it
    will be resolved.
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258.1fixed in next releaseCLOSET::UTTTue Jan 16 1990 07:5214
    Yes, there is a bug in the Bookreader such that if *none* of the
    license PAKs specified in the LMF tags are not installed on the system,
    the Bookreader will go into an infinite loop. For example, if you have
    specified FORTRAN and BOOKBROWSER in your <LMF_PRODUCT> and
    <LMF_ALTNAME> tags, and neither license is installed on the system
    you are running Bookreader on, Bookreader will loop.
    
    As long as the Bookreader can make one match, it's fine. That's why
    installing the Bookbrowser PAK is so important at the moment (it's a
    good idea anyway).
    
    The bug will be fixed for next release of the Bookreader -- 5.4.
    
    Mary
258.2WJCUST::MARSANRick Marsan (Doctor Flash)Thu Mar 08 1990 16:067
Is there anything else that could cause this?  I am getting the same scenario,
but my system manager tells me that the BOOKBROWSER PAK is there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
Rick Marsan
258.3not that we know of...RAGMOP::UTTFri Mar 09 1990 06:537
    Re.-1:  That's the only scenario we know of that results in a loop.
    Have your system manager double check about the BOOKBROWSER PAK
    installation. If it is indeed there and the Bookreader still hangs,
    let us know. (Post a note also in the BOOKREADER notes conference
    on BULOVA.)
    
    Mary
258.4check the bookSTAR::KRAETSCHNeXt Window PleaseFri Mar 09 1990 11:5510
>> Is there anything else that could cause this?  I am getting the same scenario,
>> but my system manager tells me that the BOOKBROWSER PAK is there.

Check the book to see what LMF info is in it (using the BOOKINFO utility
that comes with the 1.2B kit).  Perhaps it doesn't call out the BOOKBROWSER
license.  

If you still can't figure it out, send me a pointer to the book.

joe
258.5I've tried a bunch of things and can figure out nothing...WJCUST::MARSANRick Marsan (Doctor Flash)Fri Mar 09 1990 12:4030
Thanks for your quick reply, Joe.  I have tried everything I could think of and
what has been suggested herein but cannot get anywhere with this.  Here is the
BookInfo report on what I have created:

 Title:           "Common Scheduling Technical Reference Manual"
 Symbolic Name:   "CS_Title"
 Build Date:       9-MAR-1990 10:31:33.99
 Structure Level: 2.0

 LMF Information
   Product Name:  "CS"
   Producer:      "DEC/USM/IBC/TSG/REM"
   Date:          none
   Version:       0
 LMF Alternate Product Names:
   CDDPLUS
   LSE
   RDB
   BOOKBROWSER

 Book contains the following directories:
   Contents
   Index

I put the extra LMF alternative product names in there in the hopes that I could
get something to pick up.  I will send you mail as to where the files in
question are.  Thanks for any and all help.

Sincerely,
Rick Marsan
258.6Producer MUST be DECWJCUST::MARSANRick Marsan (Doctor Flash)Fri Mar 09 1990 17:1010
    I have solved the mystery!!!  I was not using a producer of DEC which
    is the producer listed on BOOKBROWSER.  Someone was helpfull enough to
    tell me to do a SHOW LICENSES, which I did and then realised that that
    might have made the difference.  I am thankful to say it did!!!
    
    Thank you all for all of your help and keep in mind that the Producer
    has to be DEC for now...
    
    Sincerely,
    Rick Marsan
258.7fixed in 5.4STAR::KRAETSCHNeXt Window PleaseMon Mar 12 1990 09:416
As Rick discovered the hard way, the producer MUST be DEC.

This bug is fixed in VMS 5.4 as Mary pointed our earlier, and you will 
get an error message to this effect.

joe