I downloaded and installed the AC (http://www.eclipse.org/tptp/home/downloads/4.5.0/documents/installguide/agentcontroller_45/linux/getting_started.html). I amended the shell scripts as described above.

I am now able to start the AC using ACStart.sh and run the SampleClient program, which gives satisfactory output.

However, in Eclipse I cannnot connect to the AC. In the Preferences window there is a new “Agent Controller” section. Under “Hosts”, this has a “Test Connection” button. However, this always gives me an error (Connection failed on host localhost) even though the AC is running and the same port was used (10002).

There is no useful output in the AC log file nor in Eclipse’s workspace log file.

Any suggestions?

0) Install TPTP 4.5 plugins for eclipse through Help->Software Updates->Available
Software->Ganymede->Testing And Performance (I for some reason needed
to enable the site http://download.eclipse.org/releases/ganymede)

1) libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 is not available under ubuntu hardy any
more, but the gutsy version seems to work:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/i386/libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2/1:2.95.4-24

(install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-24_i386.deb
eg. with GDebi)

2) The bug fix (Bug 175696, 201989) introduces a bug in the start and
stop scripts (RAStart.sh, RAStop.sh which I found with
-name RASt\*.sh”) of the IAC:

[[ -n $TEMP ]]

is not kown bei sh (unless it is in fact bash, which it is not under
ubuntu hardy at least in my installation). Replacing this bei

[ -n "$TEMP" ]

in two lines in both scripts, they work like s charm.

Now local profiling works (at least for me).

Main problems:

- initially I couldn’t get the SampleClient to run. Copying all of the required shared object libraries to /lib resolved that but not before I had to start the TimeCollector manually (no matter what I could not get it to start when it was supposed to)

- despite setting the JAVA_PROFILER_HOME environment variable, I keep getting messages in the log file telling me that the environment variable isn’t set

- just getting to the point mentioned above took hours…I am giving up and will probably look at using JProfiler

If you use Ubuntu I don’t recommend even trying to use TPTP because you will spend hours just trying to get it setup, and that is even if you do get it setup.

simply change the == to =.

Rick

I had to set executable, set TEMP, edit the ACStart script to remove the == operator, get the libs noted above, start eclipse with -debug and -consolelog, watch serviclelog.xml, clear IPC registers with ipcrm, and more, in my various attempts.

I posted on the tptp list about the all in one failing (at least that should work?) – http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php?id=6214&group=eclipse.tptp#6214.

I would “just use JProfiler” as others here suggest, but thats a $500USD “just use.”

The ACStart.sh shell error () is due to ubuntu using dash instead of bash:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Almquist_shell
The JVM crash is another issue but I have no idea about this part.

flo@flo-acer-kub:/opt/agntctrl.linux_ia32-TPTP-4.4.1/bin$ ./ACStart.sh
Starting Agent Controller.
[: 46: ==: unexpected operator
ACServer started successfully.
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xb7b6ed20, pid=6049, tid=2802924432
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (1.5.0_13-b05 mixed mode)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libtransportSupport.so.4+0x2d20] getTheSocket+0×10
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as hs_err_pid6049.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
#
flo@flo-acer-kub:/opt/agntctrl.linux_ia32-TPTP-4.4.1/bin$ ./SampleClient
ERROR: Unable to connect to the Agent Controller running on localhost at port number 10006
Press any key to exit…

Setup:
i386, ubuntu 7.04, java-1.5.0-java, TPTP 4.4

Any Ideas?

Sc