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 - [email protected] - (812) 856 0111 >>>> IRI 323, School of Informatics >>>> Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana >>> >>> ============================================ >>> Cindy Sievers Los Alamos National Laboratory >>> [email protected] Group CCS-1 MS B287 >>> tel:505.665.6602 Advanced Computing >>> fax:505.665.4939 Los Alamos, NM 87544 >>> ============================================ >> >> -- >> Derek Piper - [email protected] - (812) 856 0111 >> IRI 323, School of Informatics >> Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana > > > ============================================ > Cindy Sievers Los Alamos National Laboratory > [email protected] Group CCS-1 MS B287 > tel:505.665.6602 Advanced Computing > fax:505.665.4939 Los Alamos, NM 87544 > ============================================ > > -- Derek Piper - [email protected] - (812) 856 0111 IRI 323, School of Informatics Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
