[AG-TECH] Re: AGVCR problem

[Derek Piper]

	Very strange you've both had problems regarding running AGVCR and VIC 
and RAT ... I happened to install AGVCR today on a machine with a clean 
install of AGTk 2.4 and AGTk3.0.2 and both worked fine. AGVCR_Launcher 
was automatically registered on both AGTk's and able to be run by 
double-clicking an Application Session. Record a file, stop. Got to 
other venues and VIC and RAT still load fine.
	Curious.
	Incidentally, something I did today was change AGVCR_Launcher so you 
have to browse to a directory (or create one through a dialog) to record 
AGVCR files in. It'll be out soon.

	Derek

Paul Mercer wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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Derek Piper - dcpiper at indiana.edu - (812) 856 0111
IRI 323, School of Informatics
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana