Re: [Ifeffit] Artemis closes when I try to open a project file or import data

Hi, I deleted the demeter.mru file and that seems to have done the trick! I can now open project files without having Artemis crash. Thank you so much for your help! I did not anticipate such an easy or quick fix. I have attached the corrupted .mru file as you have requested and hope this issue is resolved soon. Once again, I really appreciate your assistance. Thank you, Kurinji On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Bruce Ravel wrote:

Kurinji,

I cannot reproduce your problem on a computer running the same installer version that you say you are using. I can open the project file you attached with no problem.

The error message from the log file suggests that the problem happens when Artemis attempts to write to the %APPDATA%\demeter\demeter.mru file. That is the file that is used to manage the "Recent files" menus in Artemis and Athena. It would seem that the data in that file has become corrupted.

It might be sufficient to simply delete the demeter.mru file. That would certainly be the easiest thing to try.

You said:

The problem began to occur when I updated my operating system.

The evidence you have shared so far does not indicate that there is a problem with Artemis. I don't know why updating your computer would damage one of Demeter's files, but I have no way of knowing what happened when you did your update.

Here's what I would recommend:

1. Delete the demeter.mru file and see if that solves the problem

2. Delete the entire %APPDATA%\demeter folder (*just* the demeter folder, *not* all of %APPDATA%!) and let Demeter recreate it the next time you launch Artemis or Athena

I guess you could then try reinstalling Demeter, although the evidence suggests that the problem is corruption of content in %APPDATA%\demeter, which would not get fixed by reinstalling Demeter.

In the absence of a hint as to what caused the corruption of the demeter.mru file, there isn't really anything else I can do to help you, I'm afraid.

It would be helpful to me to have a copy of the corrupted demeter.mru file for examination. That way I might be able to teach Demeter to detect and avoid the problem.

B

On 10/21/2014 12:04 PM, Kurinji Krishnamoorthy wrote:

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I am running Demeter 0.9.20(64 bit) on Windows 8.1. The error report in the log file when I try to open any project in Artemis is :

Started at 2014-10-21T10:19:08 Win8Home Premium (64-bit)6292002007681

PATH: c:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client\;c:\Program Files\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\ Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\OpenCL SDK\3.0\bin\x86;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\OpenCL SDK\3.0\bin\x64;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Shared;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\bin;;C:\strawberry\perl\bin;C:\ strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\strawberry\c\bin;

perl version: v5.18.2

@INC: C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib C:/strawberry/perl/vendor/lib C:/strawberry/perl/lib .

Syntax error at line 1: '

' at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Config/INI/Reader.pm line 268, <GEN717> line 1. Config::INI::Reader::handle_unparsed_line(Demeter:: IniReader=HASH(0x13ca3490), "\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{ 0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{ 0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{ 0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{ 0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}\x{0}"..., IO::File=GLOB(0x13ca34f0)) called at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Config/INI/Reader.pm line 120 Config::INI::Reader::read_handle("Demeter::IniReader", IO::File=GLOB(0x13ca34f0)) called at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Mixin/Linewise/Readers.pm line 103 Mixin::Linewise::Readers::__ANON__() called at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Demeter/MRU.pm line 40 Demeter::MRU::push_mru("Demeter", "artemis", "C:\\Users\\Kurinji\\Desktop\\Kurinji\\Data\\Artemis projects\\goldfo"...) called at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Demeter/UI/Artemis/Project.pm line 473 Demeter::UI::Artemis::Project::read_project(HASH(0xdacae48)) called at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Demeter/UI/Artemis.pm line 966 Demeter::UI::Artemis::OnMenuClick(Wx::Frame=HASH(0x133461e0), Wx::CommandEvent=SCALAR(0x13342bf8)) called at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Demeter/UI/Artemis.pm line 425 Demeter::UI::Artemis::__ANON__(Wx::Frame=HASH(0x133461e0), Wx::CommandEvent=SCALAR(0x13342bf8)) called at C:\strawberry\perl\site\bin\dartemis.bat line 51 eval {...} called at C:\strawberry\perl\site\bin\dartemis.bat line 51

The problem began to occur when I updated my operating system. Prior to the update, the program was running fine but after the update, it refused to open any project files( Both Artemis project files and Athena project files). I am attaching a project file which I am unable to open.

Thank you!

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Matt Newville mailto:newville@cars.uchicago.edu> wrote:

Kurinji,

Could this be similar to the conversation discussed at http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/pipermail/ifeffit/2014- August/012075.html ?

It does appear quite possible to "break" an Artemis project file in such a way that it cannot be re-opened by Artemis. This can happen if one does a fit and then re-runs Feff. I don't know enough about the layout of the project files to know why this happens.

But, it would be most helpful if you gave more details (like, what operating system and Artemis version your using) and included a project file that showed the problem.

--Matt /

/ On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Kurinji Krishnamoorthy mailto:kurinjikrishnamoorthy2013@u.northwestern.edu> wrote:

Hi, Artemis had been working well on my laptop for a while. But today when I attempted to open a saved project file ( with a *.fpj extension), the program tried to open it for a while but then ultimately closed without any error messages. A similar thing occurred when I tried to import an Athena data file into Artemis. I was wondering if anybody had any idea how to fix this problem?

Thanks, Kurinji

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