"X" Application error

[Scott E Smith]

When running an "X" application I get the following error. Does this look familiar to anyone? Thanks.


An error has occurred. The following chain of information is available:
error 1: /Arg/Arg/Tag/
message: Tag not found in dictionary.
argument position: 1074062976
tag: "vnum"

[John C. Polhemus]

Scott,
Did you ever get an answer for this one? I'm getting the same message from some code that was developed on an old 755 and is being migrated to a C3600.
Regards,
John

[Paul Sperry]

I had the same problem with Visual Thought
her is how I resolved it.

VT dies on startup with the message: "error 1: /Arg/Arg/Tag/; message: Tag not found in dictionary".

This is caused by the VT executable either not finding the system resource file, finding an invalid version of the system resource file, or not being able to read the resource file because incorrect permissions were set. The correct file is located at:


UNIX: ///lib/vgalaxy2.vr
Windows: /lib/vgalaxy5.vr

where is your Visual Thought installation directory, is the current version of VT (e.g., vt-1.4), and is the relevant platform (e.g., solaris-2). The default installation directory is:


UNIX: /usr/local/confluent
Windows: C:\Program Files\Confluent\Visual Thought 1.4

If the vgalaxy*.vr file does not exist at the specified location on your system, installation may have failed. Please re-install VT or call Confluent for help.

More likely, file permissions are preventing your user account from reading the file. For example, if VT was installed on UNIX by root with a umask of 066, removing read/write by group/other, then anybody other than root will not be able to read the resource file. This possibility can be checked easily by executing ls -l on the above file and determining whether the permissions allow you to read the file.

On UNIX, if this file (or others in the installation directory) is read-protected, you should su to the account (e.g., root) used to install Visual Thought and execute the following to restore group/other read permission for all files in the installation directory:


chmod -R go+r