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

[Andrew Maclean]

It is the development version. When I attempt to open a file on the server (
A Debian Linux box) I get the following message on the client ( XP ):
----------------------
There was a VTK Error in file:  vtk ParaView Servers ServerManager
vtkSMIntVectorProperty.cxx (283)
 No default value is specified for property: ActiveFileIsDirectory. This
might lead to stability problems
There was a VTK Error in file:  vtk ParaView Servers ServerManager
vtkSMIntVectorProperty.cxx (283)
 No default value is specified for property: ActiveFileIsReadable. This
might lead to stability problems
----------------------

If I quit and restart, then there are no error messages and everything seems
to be OK. Hoerver ... after a while ... if you are saving an animation to
disk I get this error message:
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There was a VTK Error in file:  vtk ParaView Gui Client vtkPVApplication.cxx
(1686)
 TclTk error: Uncaught exception: bad allocation
--------------------------

Something has recently changed because the program used to just crash.


Regards
   Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Amy Squillacote [mailto:amy.squillacote at kitware.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 11 May 2005 22:31
To: Andrew Maclean
Cc: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: RE: [Paraview] Possible bug in client/server mode regarding file
opening.

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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