[Mapserver-dev] Error Messages

[Pericles S. Nacionales]

Might there be some hidden characters (ie. ^M) in the files?  Just a
hunch.

-Perry

On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 22:52, woodbri at swoodbridge.com wrote:
> Arrgh,
> 
> I think we have gone backwards with error messages! I have just spent 
> 2+ hours debuging a mapfile, symbol file, and fontset file because of 
> really useless error messages like these:
> 
> Warning: MapServer Error in msDrawMap(): Failed to draw layer named 
> 'countries'. in /data1/home/httpd/html/web2/poff/info.php on line 9
> 
> Warning: MapServer Error in msLoadSymbolFile(): (data/examples.sym) 
> in /data1/home/httpd/html/web2/poff/info.php on line 6
> 
> Warning: MapServer Error in msLoadFontset(): Error opening fontset 
> data/fonts.list. in /data1/home/httpd/html/web2/poff/info.php on line 
> 6
> 
> I'm using php mapscript:
> 
> MapServer version 4.0-beta1 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG 
> OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=PDF OUTPUT=SWF SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE 
> SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER INPUT=OGR 
> INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE  
> PHP MapScript Version  ($Revision: 1.168 $ $Date: 2003/06/04 17:57:12 
> $)  
> 
> 
> This is very frustrating. I pointed the symbolset to another working 
> symbolset file in it worked great, but I still haven't a clue why 
> this other file does not work, or what line is a problem, or 
> anything. In fact I commented out 99% of the file and it still had 
> problems so I not even sure if it can access the file or it is 
> something in the file. A core file would be more useful!
> 
> BTW, I am this is not my stuff, I am trying to help a newbie that was 
> have trouble.
> 
> Sorry for the rant, but this is really problematic.
> 
> -Steve W.
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Pericles S. Nacionales <nacional at biosci.cbs.umn.edu>
University of Minnesota