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A platform for AR in VR
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Aardvark appears to launch, but silently fail #148

Closed whitingn closed 4 years ago

whitingn commented 4 years ago

I downloaded the 0.14.1 installer for Aardvark, and it seems to crash or exit shortly after launching. Not running explicitly as administrator seemed to cause the aardvarkxr process to not appear in the Task Manager, whereas running as administrator caused it to appear in the process list for a few seconds, then disappear. Nothing appeared in VR after attempting to start it, despite the smiley faces in the logs! :)

I did have to allow Windows firewall to open the port the first time I ran, but subsequent runs didn't require it, so I assume it took.

Windows 10 Pro 1909 Nvidia 2080TI AMD Threadripper SteamVR 1.13.10 Index HMD

From the logs:

2020-09-11 11:59:22,853 INFO ---------- Starting avrenderer.exe 2020-09-11 11:59:22,853 INFO Not changing working directory and starting from C:\Program Files\Aardvark 2020-09-11 11:59:22,893 INFO Starting browser process 2020-09-11 11:59:22,902 INFO Server started with PID 18984 2020-09-11 11:59:22,953 INFO ---------- Starting avrenderer.exe 2020-09-11 11:59:22,953 INFO Not changing working directory and starting from C:\Program Files\Aardvark 2020-09-11 11:59:23,027 INFO Server: Data directory is file:///C:/Program%20Files/Aardvark/data 2020-09-11 11:59:23,089 INFO Server: Read state from C:\Users\Nick\aardvark\state.json for 1 active gadgets 2020-09-11 11:59:23,090 INFO Server: Server started on port 23842 :) 2020-09-11 13:13:49,358 INFO ---------- Starting avrenderer.exe 2020-09-11 13:13:49,358 INFO Not changing working directory and starting from C:\Program Files\Aardvark 2020-09-11 13:13:49,399 INFO Starting browser process 2020-09-11 13:13:49,407 WARNING [default] Killed existing server process 2020-09-11 13:13:49,410 INFO Server started with PID 21748 2020-09-11 13:13:49,459 INFO ---------- Starting avrenderer.exe 2020-09-11 13:13:49,459 INFO Not changing working directory and starting from C:\Program Files\Aardvark 2020-09-11 13:13:49,536 INFO Server: Data directory is file:///C:/Program%20Files/Aardvark/data 2020-09-11 13:13:49,602 INFO Server: Read state from C:\Users\Nick\aardvark\state.json for 1 active gadgets 2020-09-11 13:13:49,602 INFO Server: Server started on port 23842 :) 2020-09-11 13:14:03,849 INFO ---------- Starting avrenderer.exe 2020-09-11 13:14:03,849 INFO Not changing working directory and starting from C:\Program Files\Aardvark 2020-09-11 13:14:03,882 INFO Starting browser process 2020-09-11 13:14:03,890 WARNING [default] Killed existing server process 2020-09-11 13:14:03,892 INFO Server started with PID 20972 2020-09-11 13:14:03,935 INFO ---------- Starting avrenderer.exe 2020-09-11 13:14:03,935 INFO Not changing working directory and starting from C:\Program Files\Aardvark 2020-09-11 13:14:04,009 INFO Server: Data directory is file:///C:/Program%20Files/Aardvark/data 2020-09-11 13:14:04,020 INFO Server: Read state from C:\Users\Nick\aardvark\state.json for 1 active gadgets 2020-09-11 13:14:04,023 INFO Server: Server started on port 23842 :)

whitingn commented 4 years ago

Mystery solved!

Aardvark crashes is SteamVR isn't open, and it has to be run as administrator in Windows. I had run as administrator, and I had run after SteamVR was started, but I didn't do both of those things at the same time.

JoeLudwig commented 4 years ago

Neither SteamVR nor Aardvark should need to be run as admin.

Though if you run SteamVR as admin, likely anything that talks to SteamVR will also need to be run as admin.