GEOPAK vs. Print Organizer

I wanted to make everyone aware of an issue that has arisen with MicroStation V8i Print Organizer. When Print Organizer is initiated, it kicks off a non-graphics session of MicroStation in the background. This in turn loads any other applications that would normally start with MicroStation such as GEOPAK, InRoads or even customized user applications. When this happens, there seems to be a conflict that is causing problems with Print Organizer. This can exhibit as a crash or an exception error. Other times you may not see a problem at all as it can be intermittent.

This problem is being researched and will be addressed in a SELECT Update. For now, here is a workaround.

Edit the ‘printserver.cfg' file located in the C:\Program Files\BentleyV8i\MicroStation\config\system\ folder (or wherever you have MicroStation installed) and add the following 2 lines:

%lock MS_INITAPPS
%lock MS_DGNAPPS

Make sure you add them exactly as shown in the sample file below.

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# $Source: /msj-root/msj/mstn/config/system/printserver.cfg,v $
# $RCSfile: printserver.cfg,v $
# $Revision: 1.4 $
# $Date: 2008/09/05 11:15:50 $
#
# $Copyright: (c) 2008 Bentley Systems, Incorporated. All rights reserved. $
#
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
%if defined (MSPrintServer)

MS_INITAPPS > PrintServer.ma
%lock MS_INITAPPS
MS_DGNAPPS > MCMTBLDR
MS_DGNAPPS > MPTOOLS
MS_DGNAPPS > FIELDHANDLER
%lock MS_DGNAPPS
%endif

This will prohibit any additional DGN applications from being loaded with Print Organizer and will take care of the issue.

Derricke

Derricke:

The work around that you have proposed sounds interesting (and should work), but it does not work with InRoads V8i installed. If I uninstall InRoads V8i, the print organizer works fine. Once I install it again I get the now familiar error "Exception encountered inside [WorkerMicroStationProxy.LoadDesignFile]
The communication object, System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel, cannot be used for communication because it is in the Faulted state.
Exception encountered inside [WorkerMicroStationProxy.LoadDesignFile]
The server did not provide a meaningful reply; this might be caused by a contract mismatch, a premature session shutdown or an internal server error."

 For now, I am resorting back to using InRoads XM as my default Civil platform... not a big deal for now, but I would like to get into this new version of InRoads sometime!

 Do you guys at Bentley have a "simple" cfg solution to this one like the one that Derricke has here?

Thanks!

Mark

Hi Mark,

Here is a workaround to try for InRoads V8i until the fix is included in the released products...

Edit the following 5 files as defined below:

..\config\appl\Bentley Civil Accudraw.cfg
..\config\appl\Bentley Civil Assembly Location MS - Required.2.0.cfg
..\config\appl\Bentley Civil GPS.cfg
..\config\appl\Bentley Civil Roundabouts.cfg
..\config\appl\Bentley CivilPlatform.cfg

Editing Instructions:

• Open each file in a text editor

• At the very top of the file i.e. before the first line, enter the following text on a single, separate line:

%if !defined (_CONSOLEAPP)

• At the very end of the file i.e. after the last line, enter the following text:

%endif

• Save and close the file

Thanks,
Kevin

 

Hi Mark,

Here is a workaround to try for InRoads V8i until the fix is included in the released products...

Edit the following 5 files as defined below:

..\config\appl\Bentley Civil Accudraw.cfg
..\config\appl\Bentley Civil Assembly Location MS - Required.2.0.cfg
..\config\appl\Bentley Civil GPS.cfg
..\config\appl\Bentley Civil Roundabouts.cfg
..\config\appl\Bentley CivilPlatform.cfg

Editing Instructions:

• Open each file in a text editor

• At the very top of the file i.e. before the first line, enter the following text on a single, separate line:

%if !defined (_CONSOLEAPP)

• At the very end of the file i.e. after the last line, enter the following text:

%endif

• Save and close the file

Thanks,
Kevin

 

Great... that does work just fine.

 Many Thanks~

 Mark

Hi Kevin:

 I'm having the same issue with GEOPAK.

 Do you know if this will work for GEOPAK and V8i??

Thanks

Brad

Hi Brad,

 If Derricke's workaround below did not work for you, then I don't see any problem with editing the CFG files as outlined in my post below.  All the edits do is tell the CFG files not to load if the non-graphics session of MicroStation is launching.

Thanks,
Kevin

Hi Kevin:

I tried Derricke's work around and it didn't work.

I'll try yours and see what happens.

Thanks

Brad

Hi Kevin/Derricke:

I tried both of your work-arounds and neither of them work.  I'm still getting the foolowing when i try to use Print Organizer:

Exception encountered inside [WorkerMicroStationProxy.LoadDesignFile]
The communication object, System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel, cannot be used for communication because it is in the Faulted state.

Not sure what i'm doing wrong, but the work-arounds don't want to work for me.

Any other ideas???

Thanks

Brad