RE: Getting UrbanSim up and Running

Zak,

The latest nightly build (Wed Oct 25 07:41:17 2006) fixes the problem
with creating a new Opus package. You can get it from
http://www.urbansim.org/download/index.shtml.

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces_at_urbansim.org
> [mailto:users-bounces_at_urbansim.org] On Behalf Of David Socha
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:03 AM
> To: Zachary Patterson; users_at_urbansim.org
> Subject: RE: Getting UrbanSim up and Running
>
> Zak,
>
> I have inserted some comments in line, below.
>
> > 1 - incapable of creating my own opus package.
> > The file c:\Python23\lib\shutil.py, referred to in line 102
> > of copytree
> > os.mkdir(dst) cannot be found, although it is there.
>
> This is a bug in our code. Trying to create your own Opus package as
> described in Section 10.2 of the Opus Manual causes a problem. Thanks
> for letting us know, and my apologies for the error. We have
> unit tests
> for this, but clearly they don't cover this case. I'll let you know
> when the code is fixed.
>
> > 2 - although test_opusnumarray works, running alltests.py does not:
> > Error 1045, "Access denied for for user
> > 'urbansim'@'vpn-epfl-a035.epfl.ch' (using password: YES)"
>
> Some of the unit tests require a baseyear database. Unfortunately, we
> do not have permission to distribute the test database that we use
> (which is simply a tiny part of our PSRC database). This means that
> some of the tests will fail if you do not have access
> permissions to our
> database server (which you don't).
>
> We plan to fix this by replacing our PSRC-subset with a subset of the
> Springfield-Eugene database that we are updating to work with Opus. I
> hope this will be ready sometime this autumn. Until then, please
> disregard any error messages that complain about not being able to
> access our database server.
>
> > 3 - Incapable of running a simulation. If a services database
> > is created
> > beforehand, start_run.py doesn't work because of an error
> saying that
> > the services database already exists. If it is not created
> > beforehand,
> > it ends in: _mysql_exception.OperationalError:(1049, "Unknown
> > database
> > 'psrc_2000_baseyear_fircrest'").
>
> I believe this is the same problem as mentioned above, since
> 'psrc_2000_baseyear_fircrest' is the subset of our PSRC
> database that we
> use for testing. If you were trying to run a simulation with your own
> database, then please let me know what you are trying to do
> and I'll try
> to help.
>
> If you have more questions, please feel free to contact me directly.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David Socha
> Center for Urban Simulation and Policy Analysis
> University of Washington
> www.urbansim.org
> 206 616-4495
>
>
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Received on Wed Oct 25 2006 - 08:35:46 PDT