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

[Christine Corbett Moran]

My issue was solved by putting the client and server plugins into the
same plugin, then loading on both client and server. I had previously
given them two different names, which was the root of the problem even
if I tried loading both my client and my server plugin on both the
client and the server.

I still get the 'vtkServerConnection (0x15949e70): Server failed to
gather information.' error message on starting up the server, or
loading a file, which is annoying but seems to be innocuous. At some
point soon I'll look into it and post when I have fixed the problem.

Christine

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Christine Corbett Moran
<corbett at physik.uzh.ch> wrote:
> No, no crash, and I can still use the connection as normal. Only I am unable
> to load the plugin.
>
> Christine
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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