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class=211403120-12072005>My apologies for not responding until now as I've been
away from my computer today. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=211403120-12072005>I
am also sorry for all the trouble this problem caused you, Randy, and anyone
else. I will look into it now and submit a fix this afternoon.
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class=211403120-12072005>Best,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=211403120-12072005>Eric </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
paraview-bounces+etstant=sandia.gov@paraview.org
[mailto:paraview-bounces+etstant=sandia.gov@paraview.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Randy Hudson<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 12, 2005 12:07 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
paraview@paraview.org<BR><B>Cc:</B> ANL Paraview List<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[Paraview] Summary of recent "lookmark" problem and
solution<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><BR><BR>MY DESCRIPTION OF THE
PROBLEM:<BR>=============================================================<BR>The
paraview distributions from both 07/07 and 07/11, which I built on my Windows
XP laptop, failed almost immediately upon starting. This happens whether
I run "paraview.exe" or "pvclient.exe". (These are the two I use on my
laptop.)<BR><BR>I did not have this problem under Linux (at least for the
07/11 dist.).<BR><BR>Here is the trace from one of them from Vis Studio:
<DL>
<DD>vtkXMLDataElement::GetNumberOfNestedElements() line 315 + 3 bytes
<DD>vtkPVLookmarkManager::ImportMacroExamplesCallback() line 521 + 29 bytes
<DD>vtkPVLookmarkManager::Create(vtkKWApplication * 0x056d4c98) line 335
<DD>vtkPVWindow::Create(vtkKWApplication * 0x056d4c98) line 1161 + 58 bytes
<DD>vtkPVApplication::Start(int 1, char * * 0x05695968) line 1143 + 26 bytes
<DD>vtkPVProcessModuleGUIHelper::ActualRun(int 1, char * * 0x05695968) line
125 + 27 bytes
<DD>vtkPVProcessModuleGUIHelper::RunGUIStart(int 1, char * * 0x05695968, int
1, int 0) line 108 + 19 bytes
<DD>vtkPVProcessModule::Start(int 1, char * * 0x05695968) line 99 + 31 bytes
<DD>vtkPVMain::Run(vtkPVOptions * 0x05693b20, vtkProcessModuleGUIHelper *
0x05694010, void (vtkProcessModule *)* 0x00410d22
ParaViewInitializeInterpreter(vtkProcessModule *), int 1, char * *
0x056935c8) line 196 + 33 bytes
<DD>MyMain(int 1, char * * 0x056935c8) line 83 + 29 bytes
<DD>WinMain(HINSTANCE__ * 0x00400000, HINSTANCE__ * 0x00400000, char *
0x000423a8, HINSTANCE__ * 0x00400000) line 106 + 13 bytes
<DD>WinMainCRTStartup() line 330 + 54 bytes
<DD>KERNEL32! 7c816d4f() </DD></DL>Vis Studio marked the following statement
as the one in error:
<DL>
<DD>return
this->NumberOfNestedElements;<X-TAB> </X-TAB>
<BR><BR></DD></DL>THE FIRST SOLUTION
SUGGESTED:<BR>=============================================================<BR>This
looks like an error we saw here recently. Most likely, you have a
#LookmarkMacros# and/or a #ParaViewlmk# that is completely empty in your
$HOMEPATH directory (probably C:). These are XML files associated with
lookmarks (a fairly recent addition to ParaView). If you delete the
file(s), everything should run properly again. Lookmarks are still under
development, and we have asked the person working on them to correct the
problem we (and now you) have seen.<BR><BR>-
Amy<BR><BR><BR>RESULT:<BR>=============================================================<BR>I
had the empty #LookmarkMacros# in my "C:/Documents and
Settings/<userid>" directory, but not #ParaViewlmk#. Deleting it
did not work, and it was created again when I ran pvclient.<BR><BR><BR>THE
SECOND SOLUTION
SUGGESTED:<BR>=============================================================<BR>Add
the line , "<LmkFile/>", to the empty #LookmarkMacros#
file.<BR><BR><BR>RESULTS:<BR>=============================================================<BR>That
worked, but now there WAS an empty #ParaViewlmk# file and pvclient died a bit
further
on.<BR><BR><BR>SUCCESS:<BR>=============================================================<BR>After
adding the line , "<LmkFile/>", to the empty #ParaViewlmk# file,
pvclient ran.<BR><BR><BR><BR><X-SIGSEP>
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