Horde <-> Perforce error "Missing 'View' tag when parsing 'ClientRecord'"

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I’m trying to setup Horde server and agent on my workstation computer (just for testing purposes)

The agent’s status is stuck on “Updating Workspace”, and the error it’s stuck on is:

Unhandled exception while running conform: Missing 'View' tag when parsing 'ClientRecord'

The full logs are below. I’ve redacted some information:

Running child process: dotnet “C:\Program Files\Epic Games\Horde\Agent\JobDriver\JobDriver.dll” execute conform -AgentId=PC0002 -SessionId=68b021a06935b4a826a52ad2 -LeaseId=68b024bf6935b4a826a531d9 -WorkingDir=C:\HordeAgent\Sandbox -…
Running conform command in driver
Conforming, lease 68b024bf6935b4a826a531d9
Workspaces:
Identifier=Demo, Stream=//Test_Project/main, Incremental=false Method=name=managedWorkspace&preferNativeClient=true Partitioned=false
Identifier=Demo-Inc, Stream=//Test_Project/main, Incremental=true Method=name=managedWorkspace&preferNativeClient=true Partitioned=false
Using native P4 client for ssl:[PERFORCE_SERVER_URL]:1666
Using native P4 client for ssl:[PERFORCE_SERVER_URL]:1666
Keeping directory C:\HordeAgent\Sandbox\Demo
Keeping directory C:\HordeAgent\Sandbox\Demo-Inc
Reverting changes…
Reverting changes… (0.2s)
Completed in 0.2s
Reverting changes…
Reverting changes… (0.2s)
Completed in 0.2s
Queuing workspaces for sync/populate:
Stream=//Test_Project/main RemoveUntrackedFiles=true MetadataDir=C:\HordeAgent\Sandbox\Demo WorkspaceDir=C:\HordeAgent\Sandbox\Demo\Sync ClientName=Horde+PC0002+Demo
Unhandled exception while running conform: Missing ‘View’ tag when parsing ‘ClientRecord’
Fatal error.
Driver finished with exit code 1

I can tell there’s something wrong with my perforce setup, but I don’t have admin rights myself, and even if I did, I don’t really know what’s the problem I’m supposed to fix. Would really appreciate some guidance on this.

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Just to give an update for anyone who stumbles across this… I retried the entire setup from scratch on a separate machine on LAN and I didn’t encounter the problem anymore.

There is a separate forum thread on this forum whose solution says that you need to set server.global.client.views to 1, but FYI I didn’t nee to do that (thread in question: Is horde agent able to create P4 workspace? - #2 by Athena_Tennos)

I still have no idea what causes the problem, because I’m using the same P4 account on both computers so it can’t be a permissions problem.

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Same problem.

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I was able to fix this by changing the permissions on the Perforce user that Horde is using. The conform workspaces started working immediately after.