hmmmmm.... let me check. well i'll be damned. Cisco Sytems VPN Client. not running, but i will uninstall. i expect it may require a reboot. nope. wow. rat.exe now also starts ratmedia.exe!
thank you very, very much, Joe and Tom! i was already beginning to resign myself to the cold reality of having the re-install the OS. this was pretty subtle. thanks again. --fred On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 04:27PM, Joseph Stone wrote: > Any chance you've got Cisco VPN software installed? It doesn't even need to > be running to induce this behavior, just has to be installed. > Do a "netstat -a" and look for port 47000. It turns out Cisco locks it up > for its own use and when rat goes to use it for its original purpose, mbus, > rat has problems with getting ratmedia to work. This failure occurs > silently. > > Joe > > On Mar 26, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Fred Dech wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:20PM, Thomas D. Uram wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 3/26/08 12:37 PM, Fred Dech wrote: >>>> hi, >>>> >>>> i've just installed release AG3.1 on a WinXP platform. >>>> i'm having trouble with the RAT. it does not come up when i enter a >>>> venue, but i show no errors in the AudioService.log file. >>>> i believe i am missing a process. >>>> rat.exe is running, and >>>> ratui.exe is running, but there is no >>>> ratmedia.exe >>>> also, when i quit the AG client, ratui.exe is not killed. >>>> >>> is the windows firewall running on that machine? >>>> running rat.exe directly from the commandline does not elicit any error >>>> messages, either. >>>> >>> "does not elicit any error messages", but works, or does not work? >>> >> sorry... does not work, either. rat.exe runs, but no GUI is created. >>
