[AG-TECH] Re: AGVCR problem

Derek Piper dcpiper at indiana.edu
Thu Sep 7 08:57:05 CDT 2006


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

I'm not sure about all that.. but the program is good at least. :)

> 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....

I've made files and directories in the C:\ directory before and it's not 
caused a problem. I've tried recreating the problem myself from what you 
said you did and it still works fine.

Maybe you have that special ability others lack :)

	Derek

> 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
>>>
>>> ============================================
>>> 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
>>> ============================================
>>
>> -- 
>> Derek Piper - dcpiper at indiana.edu - (812) 856 0111
>> IRI 323, School of Informatics
>> Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
> 
> 
> ============================================
> 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
> ============================================
> 
> 

-- 
Derek Piper - dcpiper at indiana.edu - (812) 856 0111
IRI 323, School of Informatics
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana




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