Hello, I am indeed behind a webproxy. I deleted the repository folder and the perspectives file, and upon restarting Taverna I got the lovely blue screen of death! I'm guessing it's to do with installing a library as you mentioned. Anyway, after rebooting it now works fine. Thanks for your help.
Regards, Yehia Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: > In Windows, did you run Taverna from a new installation of Taverna for > Windows, or using the installation for Linux? > > There is an issue with the current version where a library is missing > from the Taverna distribution. (Alan - do you know which Jira issue > this is so we are sure it's fixed for 2.1 RC1..?) > > Taverna would normally download this file on the first startup. > However, if the first time you run Taverna is on a restricted network > (requiring proxy setup) or without network access (or on a wireless > network requiring you to login on using a browser), the download of > that library can fail, in some cases storing a corrupted version of > the library (or in your case the user interface layout specification). > > How to recover from this problem depends on your network > circumstances. In any ways what you will need to do is to find your > Taverna home directory (see > http://www.mygrid.org.uk/tools/taverna/taverna-1/taverna-documentation/taverna-frequently-asked-questions/customising-taverna/where-is-my-taverna-home-directory/) > - > > from here you will need to delete the 'repository' folder (), and in > conf/ you will need to delete the > net.sf.taverna.t2.ui.perspectives.*.perspectives files. > > > If you need to set a proxy you should hopefully still be able to do > this from Taverna by going to File -> Preferences -> HttpProxy - try > restarting after setting these. > > In case you are not able to get up this preference settings, edit the > file HttpProxy-B307A902-F292-4D2F-B8E7-00CC983982B6.config in conf/ in > your Taverna home directory and set: > > proxyUseOption=useSpecifiedValues > > tavernaProxyHost=hostname > tavernaProxyPort=1337 > > tavernaProxyUser=myuser > tavernaProxyPassword=passport > > tavernaNonProxyHosts= > > (You can skip the lines that are not relevant to you) > > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 16:20, Yehia El-khatib > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I installed Taverna workbench on Linux and it runs ok. Now I need to run it >> on Windows, but on Windows Vista I get this >> error message whenever I try to run it: "Error opening layout file: null". >> >> I found that this issue has been raised before >> (http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00410.html) >> but with no solution. Can anyone help? >> >> >> Regards, >> Yehia >> >> -- >> Yehia El-khatib >> Research Associate >> Computing Department >> Lancaster University >> Lancaster LA1 4WA, UK >> >> yehia <then add> comp.lancs.ac.uk >> http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~elkhatib >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA >> is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your >> developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay >> ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf >> _______________________________________________ >> taverna-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> [email protected] >> Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk >> Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/taverna-mailing-lists/ >> > > > -- Yehia El-khatib Research Associate Computing Department Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4WA, UK yehia <then add> comp.lancs.ac.uk http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~elkhatib ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ taverna-users mailing list [email protected] [email protected] Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/taverna-mailing-lists/
