[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
> ============================================
>
>
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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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