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

[Amy Squillacote]

Hi Andrew,

I'm posting this back to the ParaView users' list.  This way other people 
have the benefit of seeing the whole thread.

When you were having problem connecting an XP client to a linux server, was 
it in the development version or in 2.0?

- Amy

At 07:11 PM 5/10/2005, Andrew Maclean wrote:
>Thanks Amy,
>   It is certainly fixed in the development version.
>
>    I haven't had a chance to look further but at one stage I experimented
>connecting a client on XP to a Linux box. If I remember correctly opening
>sources like spheres worked Ok but opening files failed. I think it should
>be possible to do this. I am running a samba server on the linux box and I
>have no trouble opening/editing files at all either XP->Linux or Linus->XP.
>If you get a chance please try it out. I'll probably have a chance sometime
>on the weekend to try it again.
>
>
>Have a great day
>    Andrew
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Amy Squillacote [mailto:amy.squillacote at kitware.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, 11 May 2005 03:01
>To: joseph insley; Utkarsh Ayachit
>Cc: Andrew Maclean; paraview-anl at mcs.anl.gov; paraview at paraview.org
>Subject: Re: [Paraview] Possible bug in client/server mode regarding file
>opening.
>
>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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