[AG-TECH] Orphan rat blocks pig

[Ivan R. Judson]

Thanks, Andew, we've put this on our list of things to fix with the media
tools. You're right.

--ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Andrew Daviel
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:29 AM
> To: AG Tech List
> Subject: [AG-TECH] Orphan rat blocks pig
>
>
> (This is an animal discussion group, right ?  :-)  )
>
>
> We were trying to start the VenueClient from (I think)
> AccessGrid-2.1.2-13 on our quasi-PiG (1-box Linux room
> system) and it just hung - starting it from a GUI there was no clue.
> Starting it from command line gave a long backtrace with the
> information that a port was already in use (but not what it
> was required for).
> Running "lsof -i" revealed an orphan Rat (either headless, or
> started on my desktop in another room) which I'd forgotten about.
>
> I'm not quite sure why rat should block - version 3 will run
> multiple copies but the audio is greyed out except on the first.
>
> Anyhow:
> GUI-based tools should generate  error messages in a popup,
> not on stdout/stderr consigned to the bit-bucket.
> It would have been nice to see a message like "audio device
> busy" or "unable to start Rat; maybe another copy is running"
>
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