[AG-DEV] Windows Node services bug!

Jason Bell j.bell at cqu.edu.au
Thu Oct 30 01:21:09 CDT 2008


Hi guys

I have come across a bug in which I was wondering if a fix has already
been submitted into SVN?

The bug is on a windows XP machine, in which none of the media tools
would start.  (Though the tools could be started manually from the
Command Line).

Thanks to Doug Kosovic, he remembered seeing a similar issue on the
AG-Tech list in which the solution was to hack the services *.py files
and change the appropriate lines to the following:

So for vic in videoconsumerservice.py
self.executable = '"%s"' %os.path.join(os.getcwd(),vic)

And likewise for rat in audioservice.py
self.executable = '"%s"' % os.path.join(os.getcwd(), rat)
self.rat_media = '"%s"' % os.path.join(os.getcwd(), ratmedia)
self.rat_ui = '"%s"' % os.path.join(os.getcwd(), ratui)
self.rat_kill = '"%s"' % os.path.join(os.getcwd(), ratkill)


Note that this was very difficult to diagnose and we initially spent a
lot of time debugging.  We even installed both AG 3.1 and AG 3.2beta all
in one installers (So the bug exists in both packages).  Since there
were no error messages, or anything like that, can we ensure that these
fixes are applied before 3.2 is offically released?

Thanks,
Jason.

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