[AG-TECH] Re: AGVCR problem

[Paul Mercer]

All
After getting AGVCR to work with help from Derek, thanks,  my vic and  
rat also wouldn't start.  I applied the fix from bugzilla and all is  
fine again.

thank you all for your help

Paul



On Sep 7, 2006, at 5:33 AM, 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!
>
> 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
>>>
>>> ============================================
>>> 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
> ============================================
>
>

Paul Mercer
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
907 450 8649




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