Still Problems on win7 - when changing dicom.ini on the fly

cirollo · May 2nd 2013

dear Marcel,

I'm still getting error from conquest at random,

Quote

the server is not running properly, no connection
probable cause NT service failed to start (check user and password)

even in the service is installed!

do you know why? version 16 on win 7 home premium

marcelvanherk · May 2nd 2013

Hi,

Can you verify that if you get the error, the server IS running? For instance by doing a query. It may be that the error occurs because the test of the GUI times out (It is set to 2s I believe).

Regards,

Marcel

cirollo · May 2nd 2013

the gui is opened when the error occurs

can I set more timeout?

marcelvanherk · May 2nd 2013

Hi,

I think the 1.4.17alpha GUI has a somewhat longer timeout but it is hardcoded.

Marcel

cirollo · May 7th 2013

dear Marcel, I downloaded 1.4.17 alpha and installed to my customer

now when I click kill and restart I've got this message:

failed to stop service - you may need to run this program as administrator

even If i put in the link run as administrator!!!!!

please find a solution!!!!

win7 home premium 64bit SP1

this is pacstrouble

Code

20130507 10:53:32 ***Failed to Listen () - bind error
20130507 10:55:23 ***Failed to Listen () - bind error
20130507 10:55:39 ***Failed to Listen () - bind error

marcelvanherk · May 8th 2013

Hi,

I think the server is running twice. The 1.4.17 is not different it just has some more error messages.

try this:

kill all dgate.exe

run GUI as admininstrator
uninstall as service
make sure there are no duplicate services configured
reinstall as service

Marcel

cirollo · May 8th 2013

dear Marcel, this morning another problem

at the start of win, conquest service is present but not working, clicking on the gui shortcut I get this error:

the server is installed as service but the service is not running
attempting to start the conquestsvr1 now

then a new installation start??!?!?!!?

what is happening????

marcelvanherk · May 9th 2013

You have insufficient rights to write into the dicomserver folder.

Marcel

cirollo · May 9th 2013

ok, but the folder is c:\dicom and the user is a pc administrator (checked from user account in control panel)

on other win7 installations, including my notebook, it works!!

let me know

cirollo · May 14th 2013

ok marcel, the same customer

starts the conquest from the gui shortcut, at the first image a message from windows: dgate stops working....

ggggrrrr!!!!!!

i don't know what it could be

marcelvanherk · May 14th 2013

at the first image doing what?

Marcel

cirollo · Jun 4th 2013

Hi Marcel!

I'm still getting problems with conquest and w7 or vista. Just about two hour ago, on a vista machine the service failed to start, opening the GUI it asked me again as for first installation, it seems the the configuration file became corrupted or missing

this is not the first time i encounter this problem.
Other problem is that, even if the service is running, opening the gui it says the service is not running properly, attempting to start, and so on

So How can I do to make the service running ever?

Let me know, in waiting to hear from You, best regards,

ciro

marcelvanherk · Jun 4th 2013

Hi Ciro,

this sounds like dicom.ini is deleted or not found. I do not see this unless I start ConquestDicomServer.exe in the wrong folder (not in the folder where dicom.ini is). If it is on a network drive or removable drive that is not always available or changes drive letter, windows may lose the startup folder in a shortcut which would have this effect.

I generally do not run Conquest as a service, but it does work for me on WIN7 (just tested).

Regards,

Marcel

cirollo · Jun 5th 2013

So, you give me an hint!
I recreate dicom.ini each time (changes the destination path of the images) as you can see from the following code (is visual foxpro)

Code

proc Try_00D3FD50()
    local i_nConn,i_cTable,i_nOldArea,i_ErrMsg,i_ccchkf,i_ccchkv
    DELETE FILE ("c:\dicom\dicom.ini")
    this.X=FCREATE("c:\dicom\dicom.ini",0)
    FPUTS(this.X,"# This file contains configuration information for the DICOM server")
    FPUTS(this.X,"# Do not edit unless you know what you are doing")
    FPUTS(this.X," ")
    FPUTS(this.X,"[sscscp]")
    FPUTS(this.X,"MicroPACS                = sscscp")
    FPUTS(this.X,"Edition                  = Personal")
    FPUTS(this.X," ")
    FPUTS(this.X,"# Network configuration: server name and TCP/IP port#")
    FPUTS(this.X,"MyACRNema                = "+ALLTRIM(this.AE))
    FPUTS(this.X,"TCPPort                  = "+ALLTRIM(this.PORT))
    FPUTS(this.X," ")
    FPUTS(this.X,"# Reference to other files: known dicom servers; database layout; sops")
    FPUTS(this.X,"ACRNemaMap               = acrnema.map")
    FPUTS(this.X,"kFactorFile              = dicom.sql")
    FPUTS(this.X,"SOPClassList             = dgatesop.lst")
    FPUTS(this.X," ")
    FPUTS(this.X,"# Host(ignored), name, username and password for ODBC data source")
    FPUTS(this.X,"SQLHost                  = ")
    FPUTS(this.X,"SQLServer                = ")
    FPUTS(this.X,"Username                 = ")
    FPUTS(this.X,"Password                 = ")
    FPUTS(this.X,"DoubleBackSlashToDB      = 0")
    FPUTS(this.X," ")
    FPUTS(this.X,"# Configure database")
    FPUTS(this.X,"TruncateFieldNames       = 10")
    FPUTS(this.X,"MaxFieldLength           = 254")
    FPUTS(this.X,"MaxFileNameLength        = 255")
    FPUTS(this.X,"FixPhilips               = 0")
    FPUTS(this.X,"FixKodak                 = 0")
    FPUTS(this.X,"KeepAlive                = 0")
    FPUTS(this.X,"LargeFileSizeKB          = 1024")
    FPUTS(this.X,"ZipTime                  = 05:")
    FPUTS(this.X,"UIDPrefix                = 1.2.826.0.1.3680043.2.135.730956.43877812")
    FPUTS(this.X,"EnableReadAheadThread    = 1")
    FPUTS(this.X,"PatientQuerySortOrder    = ")
    FPUTS(this.X,"StudyQuerySortOrder      =")
    FPUTS(this.X,"SeriesQuerySortOrder     =")
    FPUTS(this.X,"ImageQuerySortOrder      =")
    FPUTS(this.X,"IndexDBF                 = 1")
    FPUTS(this.X,"PackDBF                  = 0")
    FPUTS(this.X,"LongQueryDBF             = 1000")
    FPUTS(this.X,"TCPIPTimeOut             = 300")
    FPUTS(this.X,"FailHoldOff              = 60")
    FPUTS(this.X,"RetryDelay               = 100")
    FPUTS(this.X,"QueueSize                = 128")
    FPUTS(this.X,"WorkListMode             = 0")
    FPUTS(this.X,"DebugLevel               = 0")
    FPUTS(this.X,"Prefetcher               = 0")
    FPUTS(this.X,"LRUSort                  =")
    FPUTS(this.X,"AllowTruncate            =")
    FPUTS(this.X,"DecompressNon16BitsJpeg  = 1")
    FPUTS(this.X,"UseBuiltInDecompressor   = 1")
    FPUTS(this.X,"FileNameSyntax           = 0")
    FPUTS(this.X," ")
    FPUTS(this.X,"# Configuration of compression for incoming images and archival")
    FPUTS(this.X,"DroppedFileCompression   = un")
    FPUTS(this.X,"IncomingCompression      = un")
    FPUTS(this.X,"ArchiveCompression       = as")
    FPUTS(this.X," ")
    FPUTS(this.X,"# Names of the database tables")
    FPUTS(this.X,"PatientTableName         = DICOMPatients")
    FPUTS(this.X,"StudyTableName           = DICOMStudies")
    FPUTS(this.X,"SeriesTableName          = DICOMSeries")
    FPUTS(this.X,"ImageTableName           = DICOMImages")
    FPUTS(this.X,"DMarkTableName           = DICOMAccessUpdates")
    FPUTS(this.X,"RegisteredMOPDeviceTable = RegisteredMOPIDs")
    FPUTS(this.X,"UIDToMOPIDTable          = UIDToMOPID")
    FPUTS(this.X,"UIDToCDRIDTable          = UIDToCDRID")
    FPUTS(this.X," ")
    FPUTS(this.X,"# Banner and host for debug information")
    FPUTS(this.X,"PACSName                 = CONQUESTSRV1")
    FPUTS(this.X,"OperatorConsole          = 127.0.0.1")
    FPUTS(this.X," ")
    FPUTS(this.X,"# Configuration of disk(s) to store images")
    FPUTS(this.X,"MAGDeviceThreshhold      = 0")
    FPUTS(this.X,"MAGDevices               = 1")
    FPUTS(this.X,"MAGDevice0               = "+ALLTRIM(this.PATH_DICOM)+"\")
    FPUTS(this.X,"NightlyCleanThreshhold   = 0")
    * --- --
    FPUTS(this.X,"ImportConverters = 5")
    FPUTS(this.X,"ImportConverter0 = ifnotequal "+ '"'+"%m"+'","'+"SR"+'"'+";save to "+ALLTRIM(this.PATH_DICOM)+"\temp.dcm")
    FPUTS(this.X,"ImportConverter1 = ifequal "+ '"'+"%m"+'","'+"SR"+'"'+";save to "+ALLTRIM(this.PATH_DICOM)+"\misure.dcm")
    FPUTS(this.X,"ImportConverter2 = ifnotequal "+ '"'+"%m"+'","'+"SR"+'"'+";process with dgate.exe "+'"'+"--convert_to_jpg:"+ALLTRIM(this.PATH_DICOM)+"\temp.dcm,1024,"+ALLTRIM(this.PATH_DICOM)+"\"+"%V0020,0013.jpg,//0")
    FPUTS(this.X,"ImportConverter3 = ifequal "+ '"'+"%m"+'","'+"SR"+'"'+";process with C:\DICOM\dsr2xml.exe "+ALLTRIM(this.PATH_DICOM)+"\temp.dcm "+ALLTRIM(this.PATH_DICOM)+"\misure.xml")
    FPUTS(this.X,"ImportConverter4 = destroy")
    FCLOSE(this.X) 
    RUN /N2 c:\dicom\DGATE.EXE --read_ini:
    return

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maybe something goes wrong during this? how can I check or make a better batch to do what i need?

thanks, regards
ciro

marcelvanherk · Jun 5th 2013

Ah,

and that explains some crashes too. If you change MAGDEVICE0 but do not create the printer_files folder the browser will die.

What are you actually trying to do, when you modify dicom.ini? Just change the destination folder? And change it to what?

Marcel

cirollo · Jun 6th 2013

ok, but sometimes it works, If i remember, the printer_files is created automatically by conquest.
Of course, I can create it too if can solve the problem.

By the way, i have an ultrasound EMR in which the doctor, in the pc, put the info for a written report. I use conquest to integrate to this report the images from ultrasound machine.

each examination (or report) as a progressive number that is different from id on ultrasound machine, and each examination has a different folder to store images coming from us machine, ad es.

exam 123456
path c:\usimages\123456\1.jpg, 2.jpg,..... (i convert them to jpg with dcm2jpg)

i thinked of generating dinamically the dicom.ini with updated path when a new examination starts and tell dgate to read ini before sending the image.

w_path_dicom is a variable that stores the complete path of the examination.

On win xp I get very small problems, on win 7 many.
If there's an alternative method, please tell me how to do.... regards,
ciro
ciro

marcelvanherk · Jun 6th 2013

Hi,

I would let conquest just receive the images and write them out in the correct folder as jpeg images using Lua scripting. Where does the exam number come from?

Marcel

cirollo · Jun 6th 2013

It comes from emr software
How can i do the same with lua?
Consider that it shoul handle also SR objects
Now i create printer_files folder automatically.
Do you think is not emough?

marcelvanherk · Jun 6th 2013

Hi,

I am not sure that it works that way. Let's see. But you can change parameters in a running dicom server using dgate -- commands. The issue with Lua is that there a few places to store global variables.

Marcel

cirollo · Jun 7th 2013

same problem, runs fine for three-four studies, sometimes also for two days then it crash.

last solution: i don't change dinamically dicom.ini, i receive the images in the stardard folder (e.g. c:\conquest\images) then I move them via batch into my application's correct path

what do you think about?

how regarding dgate commands to change magdevices?? do you have an example?

let me know, regards,
ciro

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