[AG-TECH] Re: AGVCR problem

[Cindy Sievers]

My apologies, Derek is right, please don't blame the AGVCR installer, it 
works great!  And furthermore, both Derek and AGVCR are awesome!

The problem I had, as Tom pointed out, was related to this bug (and not to 
the GTK as I had thought):

http://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/accessgrid/show_bug.cgi?id=1571

Tom wrote, "The problem is, I believe, the existence of some file or 
directory that begins with "Program" in the C:\ directory,so you could 
alternatively just remove that file/dir."

I had specified a directory in the C:\ directory for AGVCR to write the 
recorded files to, this in turn, triggered the above mentioned AGtk 
bug.....once I removed this directory, everything worked fine. whew....

Many thanks to Tom and Derek!

Cindy

At 06:53 AM 9/7/2006, Derek Piper wrote:

>         Any old GTK runtime would be listed in the 'Add/Remove Programs' 
> dialog of Windows.
>         I really don't think that any of it is related to VIC and RAT not 
> working since they don't even use GTK.
>         To clear some things up about the installer. It's not doing 
> anything 'weird' behind the scenes, it's just copying the program files, 
> the standalone runtime (the same as the contents of the .zip file that 
> people have been using for ages, e.g. GTK and VIC and RAT). It does NOT 
> alter the PATH of the system, but instead makes an AGVCR_PATH environment 
> variable that the batch file to run AGVCR looks at to see if the DLLs are 
> there. IF the GTK DLLs are installed on the system 'globally', then the 
> bundled runtime is not used.
>         If it sounds defensive, I guess I'm just concerned that people 
> are going to blame the AGVCR installer for messing up their machine when 
> it didn't.
>         Now, as to your problem, I can only assume that Windows is just 
> being difficult. :/
>
>         Derek
>
>Cindy Sievers wrote:
>>Hi Paul
>>Seems like I have the same error, only it hosed my vic and rat.....do you 
>>know how to get rid of the old DLLs?  Upgrading to the newest GTK created 
>>a problem on my machine!!! And I have a big seminar tomorrow morning at 
>>9:00.....oh woe is me....
>>Cindy
>>At 02:19 PM 9/6/2006, Derek Piper wrote:
>>
>>>         Paul,
>>>
>>>         Do you have an old GTK runtime installation on the machine 
>>> you're testing on? References to that message indicate it was a known 
>>> bug in GTK around March time. The runtime included with AGVCR has the 
>>> most recent Windows build of GTK. So, I'm guessing some old DLLs are 
>>> being found on the system and causing things to break.
>>>
>>>         Derek
>>>
>>>Paul Mercer wrote:
>>>>Derek/AG community
>>>>I used the Windows installer, typical installation, to install AGVCR.
>>>>After starting AG2.4 and entering a venue, I added AGVCR to the Shared 
>>>>Applications and when starting it I see..
>>>>connecting to venue
>>>>getting venue url
>>>>getting venue streams
>>>>generate command line
>>>>and then the error The procedure entry point g_intern_static_string 
>>>>could not be located in  the dynamic link library libglib-2.0-0.dll
>>>>I have reinstalled twice and rebooted after the install.
>>>>any help would be appreciated.
>>>>thanks
>>>>Paul
>>>>  Paul Mercer
>>>>Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
>>>>907 450 8649
>>>
>>>--
>>>Derek Piper - dcpiper at indiana.edu - (812) 856 0111
>>>IRI 323, School of Informatics
>>>Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
>>
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>>Cindy Sievers           Los Alamos National Laboratory
>>sievers at lanl.gov        Group CCS-1 MS B287
>>tel:505.665.6602        Advanced Computing
>>fax:505.665.4939        Los Alamos, NM 87544
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>
>--
>Derek Piper - dcpiper at indiana.edu - (812) 856 0111
>IRI 323, School of Informatics
>Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana


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Cindy Sievers           Los Alamos National Laboratory
sievers at lanl.gov        Group CCS-1 MS B287
tel:505.665.6602        Advanced Computing
fax:505.665.4939        Los Alamos, NM 87544
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