[AG-TECH] RAT - Random crashing

[Piers O'Hanlon]

Hi Chen,

To diagnose the RAT crashes it would be useful to know which OS you're
running and what you think might be causing the crash - does it happen
after the same amount of time, or is it related to certain other
remote nodes joining?

If you run the UCL version and run debugview - which captures the
debug messages (send us the log from debugview) - see:
https://mediatools.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mbone/mmedia/wiki/SvnDev

Thanks,

piers.



On 8/9/06, Markus Buchhorn <Markus.Buchhorn at anu.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi Chen
>
> Slightly quicker, in the venue client, 'preferences' menu you can 'disable audio' then 'enable audio'. One less layer of python to jump through :-/
>
> Quickest version: note down the venue addresses (multicast group/port) for audio, and have a terminal window open in the folder where the rat executable is unpacked, and the rat start command typed in appropriately configured - when it crashes just hit <enter>... (and then reset the command line). I've done that in crucial meetings....
>
> What kind of crash are you seeing? Random stops, or pop-up alerts about mbus problems? The latter is well known, and can come from excessive mouse events (tinkering with settings) amongst others. Random stops I've seen on various 64bit systems - where the UI remains up but gets ignored. I understand there are also some easy remote DoS attacks against rat :-)
>
> Cheers,
>         Markus
>
> At 06:26 PM 9/08/2006 +1000, Chen Reed wrote:
> >It's a Creative Audigy 2 ZS. I'll try switching to the on-board audio.
> >
> >Thanks for the RAT restart instructions :)
> >
> >Kind regards,
> >
> >Chen.
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Nathan Gardiner [<mailto:nathan.gardiner at canterbury.ac.nz>mailto:nathan.gardiner at canterbury.ac.nz]
> >Sent: Wed 8/9/2006 5:57 PM
> >To: Chen Reed; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> >Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] RAT - Random crashing
> >
> >Go to "Manage my node" under the Preferences menu in the client and
> >right mouse click on audioservice and select disable. Then when it turns
> >to disabled right mouse click on it again and click enable. This should
> >restart RAT again without you having to restart the client.
> >
> >As for RAT randomly crashing, you may want to check which audio card
> >you're using. RAT is a bit picky as to what type of audio card it can
> >work 100% with.
> >
> >
> >Regards,
> >Nathan Gardiner
> >
> >________________________________
> >
> >From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [<mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
> >Behalf Of Chen Reed
> >Sent: Wednesday, 9 August 2006 6:33 p.m.
> >To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> >Subject: [AG-TECH] RAT - Random crashing
> >
> >
> >
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >
> >
> >I'm experiencing random crashes of the RAT and would like to know both
> >how to restart the RAT without restarting the whole client and also
> >where to start looking to diagnose the cause of the crashing!
> >
> >
> >
> >I would investigate the slow way, but I am stuck in the middle of a week
> >of near back-to-back meetings and need a quick-fix.
> >
> >
> >
> >Thanks for any help.
> >
> >
> >
> >Kind regards,
> >
> >
> >
> >Chen.
> >
> >
> >
> >Australasian CRC for Interaction Design
> >
> >Network and Systems Manager
> >
> >Tel: 07 3337 7828
> >
> >email: chen at acid.net.au
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> Markus Buchhorn, ANU Internet Futures             |Ph: +61 2 61258810
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