No operations possible from the Netvault GUI. (4045521)

Date: Jan 2008
Product & Version: NVBU 8.x
OS Version: Any
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Symptoms:
After launching the Netvault GUI, no operations are possible, "Check access" on clients fails, no backups selections from any clients can be made.
This happens on all clients, as soon as the server tries to communicate with the client a "Plugin Died" message is issued.

1) Stop the Netvault services
2) remove the file ~netvault/machines.dat
3) restart the netvault processes, this rebuilds the machines.dat file.