[AG-TECH] dppt weirdness

[Eric Damboise]

Had similar problems, and followed a similar path. I would uninstall the 
JVM, and install XP service pack 1, that did the trick for us.

-Eric-

Jennifer Teig von Hoffman wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> We're having trouble here with a laptop that doesn't seem to be running 
> dppt right. It's got WinXP and AG release 1.2, display machine install. 
>  When I run the client command (or the master, for that matter), the 
> client appears to start, and to connect to the server, but then dies 
> with the error messages below. PowerPoint does in fact open, but without 
> any file open in it.
> 
> We did make sure that we had a current JVM installed (Russ tells me XP 
> doesn't have one by default).
> 
> Anybody seen behavior like this before, or have any suggestions of what 
> to try?
> 
> - Jennifer
> 
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>client c:\doug.ppt
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>call config
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>set CLASSPATH=ag.jar;agx.jar;jsdt.jar;jsdt-client-socket.jar
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>rem *******************************************************
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>rem ** You MUST SET the Distributed Power Point Server
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>rem ** Change the 'SERVER=hostname' line below to reflect your
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>rem ** meetings distributed power point server.
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>rem **
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>rem ** You can keep multiple SERVER lines provided that
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>rem ** you place 'rem' before the word SERVER
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>rem ** for the SERVERS you are not using for your meeting.
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>rem **
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>rem ** The last 'SERVER=hostname' will be where your dppt
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>rem ** will look.  You can have only one server per meeting.
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>rem ********************************************************
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>rem
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>rem SERVER=agcontrol.bu.edu
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>rem set SERVER=dyfrig.mcs.anl.gov
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>set SERVER=agdisplay.bu.edu
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>rem
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>set PORT=5001
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>set URL=jsdt://agdisplay.bu.edu:5001/socket/Session/AG
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>set JAVA=jview
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>jview ag.presentationClient -win 
> jsdt://agdisplay.bu.edu:5001/socket/
> Session/AG  c:\doug.ppt
> Peer at arg 0 is -win
> Peer at arg 1 is jsdt://agdisplay.bu.edu:5001/socket/Session/AG
> client name is Administrator at agproducer
> connecting to session jsdt://agdisplay.bu.edu:5001/socket/Session/AG
> Connected to session com.sun.media.jsdt.socket.socketSession at 37
> Created app, os is Windows (32-bit) 5.01
> got presentations com.ms.com.CUnknown at 49
> Open caught exception: com.ms.com.ComFailException: (0x80004005) 
> Unspecified err
> or
> 
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at ag/ppt/Presentation.<init>
>         at ag/ppt/PowerPoint.openFile
>         at ag/presentationClient.openPresentation
>         at ag/presentationClient.<init>
>         at ag/presentationClient.main
> 
> ERROR: java.lang.NullPointerException
> 
> C:\ag\dppt>
> 
>