Problems with Frontier startup

[Matt Neuburg]

>Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:46:41 +0100
>To: Frontier-Users at userland.com
>From: Bob Kemp <robert.kemp at strath.ac.uk>
>Subject: Problems with Frontier startup
>Reply-To: Frontier-Users at userland.com
>
>I installed Frontier 8 the other day on an NT machine, for the most part
>without problems. This morning after restarting Frontier I got a 500
>Server  error when attempting to access my Manila sites: "Can't call the
>script because the name "mainResponder" hasn't been defined.".
>
>This appears to be happening because Frontier isn't opening some databases
>on restart, including mainResponder.root and config.root. I reopened the
>missing databases including mainResponder, and then got the error "Can't
>find a sub-table named "mainResponder". I ran the startup script in
>mainResponder.root and everything seems back to normal.
>
>I can't find any directly relevant documentation, so can anyone tell me how
>to ensure that all required databases open on startup, and that
>mainResponder starts automatically? I haven't been closing any of these
>databases by the way.

The answer lies hidden in the coy phrase "for the most part". You had a
problem during installation and MainResponder never got installed. So you
installed it manually instead. Well done! :-) m.
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