[Paraview] Possible bug in client/server mode regarding file opening.

[Amy Squillacote]

Hi Joe,

According to Utkarsh, this bug was introduced into ParaView after ParaView 
2.0 was released, so this should not be an issue in ParaView 2.0.1.

- Amy

At 11:43 AM 5/10/2005, joseph insley wrote:

>I saw that a fix for this bug was committed to CVS, but was wondering
>when we can expect to see a release which contains the fix.
>
>Also, is this a failure that happens every time ParaView 2.0.1 is run
>in client/server mode?  Or was there some rare condition that was met
>that most users will not run into?  We are deploying ParaView in a
>production environment, and are trying to decide whether we should go
>with 2.0.1, or wait for the next release.
>
>Thanks,
>joe.
>
>
>On Apr 23, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>
>>That's a bug. Thanks.
>>I will commit a fix to the CVS tomorrow morning.
>>
>>Utkarsh
>>
>>Andrew Maclean wrote:
>>>I don't know whether this is a bug or something wrong that I am doing
>>>as I
>>>am not very experienced with ParaView.
>>>Assume that I have machine A as the client and machine B as the
>>>server.
>>>So on B I type:
>>>pvserver -ch=A
>>>On A I type:
>>>pvclient -sh=B
>>>Everything works OK if I use one of the existing sources like the
>>>sphere
>>>source. Rendering seems to go OK and there seem to be no problems.
>>>However if I try to open a file the server crashes with the following
>>>message:
>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----
>>>pvserver -ch=a
>>>Listen on port: 11111
>>>Waiting for client...
>>>connected to port 11111
>>>Client connected.
>>>ERROR: In
>>>/usr/local/src/vtk/ParaView/Servers/Common/vtkProcessModule.cxx,
>>>line540
>>>vtkPVClientServerModule (0x9a7a420): Object type:
>>>vtkPVServerFileListing,
>>>couldnot find requested method: "GetActiveFileIsDirectory"
>>>or the method was called with incorrect arguments.
>>>while processing
>>>Message 0 = Invoke
>>>   Argument 0 = id_value {677}
>>>   Argument 1 = string_value {GetActiveFileIsDirectory}
>>>ERROR: In
>>>/usr/local/src/vtk/ParaView/Servers/Common/vtkProcessModule.cxx,
>>>line542
>>>vtkPVClientServerModule (0x9a7a420): Aborting execution for debugging
>>>purposes.
>>>Aborted
>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----
>>>I can open directories on the remote machine and read/write to files
>>>OK. So
>>>is it something that I am doing wrong? It seems to me that paraview is
>>>unable to open a directory on the remote machine for some reason.
>>>Thanks for any help
>>>Andrew
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