[AG-TECH] VenueClient connect problem to VenueServer

["Michael Braitmaier" <braitmaier@hlrs.de>]

I have a rather difficult problem where I don't know at which point to start 
with search for a solution.
The setup:
AccessGrid 2.3 on  Fedora Core 2 Laptop.
Installation has been done according to the guide from Douglas Kosovic using 
yum.
When trying to connect to the VenueServer the VenueClient tracks the 
following problem in the VenueClient.log file:

03/01/2005 01:44:56 PM -150399488 CertificateManager     __init__.py:988 
DEBUG Looking for identity (unused) None
03/01/2005 01:44:56 PM -150399488 CertificateManager     __init__.py:988 
DEBUG HaveValidProxy: found proxy ident /O=Access 
Grid/OU=agdev-ca.mcs.anl.gov/OU=cepba.upc.edu/CN=Jesus Labarta/CN=proxy
03/01/2005 01:44:56 PM -150399488 CertificateManager     __init__.py:988 
DEBUG Looking for identity (unused) None
03/01/2005 01:44:56 PM -150399488 CertificateManager     __init__.py:988 
DEBUG HaveValidProxy: found proxy ident /O=Access 
Grid/OU=agdev-ca.mcs.anl.gov/OU=cepba.upc.edu/CN=Jesus Labarta/CN=proxy
03/01/2005 01:44:58 PM -150399488 VenueClient     __init__.py:988 DEBUG 
EnterVenue: Invoke venue enter
03/01/2005 01:44:58 PM -150399488 VenueClient     __init__.py:988 ERROR 
EnterVenue: failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/AccessGrid/VenueClient.py", line 
834, in EnterVenue
   self.__EnterVenue(URL)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/AccessGrid/VenueClient.py", line 
703, in __EnterVenue
   (venueState, self.privateId, self.streamDescList ) = 
self.__venueProxy.Enter( self.profile )
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/AccessGrid/Venue.py", line 3331, in 
Enter
   (r1, r2, r3) = self.proxy.Enter(profile)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/SOAPpy/Client.py", line 453, in 
__call__
   return self.__r_call(*args, **kw)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/SOAPpy/Client.py", line 475, in 
__r_call
   self.__hd, self.__ma)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/SOAPpy/Client.py", line 338, in 
__call
   config = self.config, noroot = self.noroot)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/SOAPpy/SOAPBuilder.py", line 620, 
in buildSOAP
   return t.build()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/SOAPpy/SOAPBuilder.py", line 143, 
in build
   self.dump(i, typed = typed, ns_map = ns_map)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/SOAPpy/SOAPBuilder.py", line 295, 
in dump
   meth(obj, tag, typed, ns_map)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/SOAPpy/SOAPBuilder.py", line 607, 
in dump_instance
   self.dump(v, k, 1, ns_map)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/SOAPpy/SOAPBuilder.py", line 295, 
in dump
   meth(obj, tag, typed, ns_map)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/SOAPpy/SOAPBuilder.py", line 510, 
in dump_dictionary
   self.dump(v, k, 1, ns_map)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/SOAPpy/SOAPBuilder.py", line 295, 
in dump
   meth(obj, tag, typed, ns_map)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/SOAPpy/SOAPBuilder.py", line 368, 
in dump_string
   typed, ns_map, self.genroot(ns_map), id))
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/SOAPpy/SOAPBuilder.py", line 330, 
in dumper
   return xml % {"tag": tag, "type": t, "data": data, "root": rootattr,
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 3: 
ordinal not in range(128)
03/01/2005 01:44:58 PM -150399488 VenueClient     __init__.py:988 DEBUG 
bin.VenueClient::EnterVenue: Enter venue with url: 
https://192.108.35.6:8000/Venues/default
03/01/2005 01:44:58 PM -150399488 VenueClient     __init__.py:988 DEBUG 
warningString:
03/01/2005 01:45:29 PM -150399488 VenueClient     __init__.py:988 
NFO  --------- END VenueClient
03/01/2005 01:45:29 PM -150399488 DataStore     __init__.py:988 DEBUG 
Quitting thread 0
03/01/2005 01:45:29 PM -194229328 DataStore     __init__.py:988 DEBUG Worker 
0 gets cmd quit
03/01/2005 01:45:29 PM -194229328 DataStore     __init__.py:988 DEBUG Worker 
0 exiting

I can't think of a point to investiagte further considering the: 
UnicodeDecodeError
Has someone else experienced such a problem before?

I have to remark that the VenueVNCServer.py script is running on the same 
machine and can connect to the VenueServer and start the accompanying 
SharedApp.

Thanks in advance
Michael

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Dipl.-Inf. Michael Braitmaier
HLRS - Visualization / Video Conferencing
University of Stuttgart
Germany
Website: http://www.hlrs.de/organization/vis/people/braitmaier/