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

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Are there any error messages on the server side when you get that
error "failed to gather information" on the client?

Utkarsh

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Christine Corbett Moran
<corbett at physik.uzh.ch> wrote:
> 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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