[Paraview] problem getting pvserver to load plugin; possible connected error message

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

After you get the error message when you try to load the plugin on the
remote side, has the server disconnected/crashed or something on those
lines?

Utkarsh

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Christine Corbett Moran
<corbett at physik.uzh.ch> wrote:
> I have created a plugin which functions on my client machine (when the GUI
> is run on the client) as well as on my server machine (when the GUI is run
> on the server machine), but not if I run the GUI on the client and connect
> to the server machine running pvserver (I am currently for the exercise
> running a single instance, nothing fancy). I have the PV_PLUGIN_PATH
> environment variable in my .bash_profile set correctly to point to the
> directory which contains my plugin on the server, as is evinced by the fact
> that when I run the GUI on the server machine it automatically loads my
> plugin.
>
> On the client, if I go to manage plugins while connected to the server,
> there is a small green/greyed out dot displayed on the remote plugin side,
> along with the text "Not Loaded". All other fields on the remote plugin side
> are empty. The local plugin side continues to display something to the
> effect of "Loaded but must be loaded on server". If I try to manually load
> the server plugin remotely from the client GUI, it displays and error box,
> which is completely empty except for the "OK" button, and the following text
> on the client and server sides, respectively:
>
> Client error:
> ERROR: In /BUILD/ParaView3/Servers/Common/vtkClientConnection.cxx, line 414
> vtkClientConnection (0x1a20700): Could not create information object.
>
> Server error:
> ERROR: In
> /Users/noname1/Documents/Research/Projects/viz/Paraview/ParaView-3.7/ParaView-3.7_src/Servers/Common/vtkServerConnection.cxx,
> line 345
> vtkServerConnection (0x15949e70): Server failed to gather information.
>
> As a side note, since setting up my ParaView server, when I connect with my
> client I get these error messages at the startup, but it hasn't in any way
> thusfar effected my ability to load, analyze and render on the server so I
> assumed they were innocuous; now it seems they may not be. Has anyone seen
> these errors before or run into similar problems setting up pvserver with
> plugins?
>
> Thanks,
> Christine
>
>
>
>
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