Hi,
I’m having some issues with interoperability. Sometimes, in Workbench, if I run the same workspace multiple times (which is very common in development), Workbench freezes on the "Starting Translation..." message.
So, I have to restart my computer user profile.
Has anyone encountered this problem before? How did you solve it?
Hi, yes we have seen this intermittently but have not been able to isolate the cause.
If you are using a non-embedded workspace (i.e. your tool source is a .fmw file) then starting Workbench from the Windows Start menu should not error. If you see a .recover file with the same base name as the .fmw file then accept any message to use it - this will recover your latest edits.
I'll do what @BruceHarold to recover my last edits too.
To add more context, this behavior is a known issue that is triggered by a change in the workspace canvass that cause freezing of fme.exe in the background. The behavior can happen to simple or complex workspaces. During runtime, the user experiences this Starting translation... freezing log message in the Translation log.
Unfortunately, we don't have a consistent, deliberate repro step identified to this day. I also don't suspect that enabling cache could be part of the problem.
I used to restart my computer like you do to go past the problem. Can you confirm that restarting the Workbench app to go back to authoring does not help either?
Recently, I found two workarounds. Enable cache and go downstream to a transformer between your source feature type/s and your last change in the workspace and do Run To the transformer selected. Try moving around as far as possible from the changed transformer/s until the translation runs. If this does not work I go to the next one.
End Task the explorer.exe process in Task Manager --> Details tab. It will lock out Windows but if you do a Control Alt delete again you get back to being able to launch Task Manager and restart explorer.exe from File --> Run New Task --> type explorer.exe and enter. You may lose some background processes by doing this but it gets me through working on my authoring task for the most part.
Hi,
I´m glad for your message. I will try the ideas until the complete solution to the problem.
Thank´s