> [dfe01,INFO] Slow control equipment initialized
> dfe: src/midas.c:838: cm_msg_flush_buffer: Assertion `rp[3]=='_'' failed.
> if I remove line 838 from midas.c (fixing message length) the problem disappear...

Thank you for reporting this problem.

It is very strange, the check is for message start "MSG_", why "M", "S" and "G" are there
but "_" is missing? And you remove the check for "_" and the rest of the message is also okey?
Very odd.

I look at the code in midas.c and I also see is that the ring buffer has no protection against
overflow, it is created for max message length of around 1000 bytes, but I look at the code 
that feeds messages into it (cm_msg_format()) and it also has a buffer overrun
possibility (sprintf() instead snprintf()). Actually I just ran into this buffer overrun
myself when adding memory leak debugging code into mhttpd.

Anyhow, before this message that causes the crash, maybe perchance you have a long
message before it? Of length 1000 bytes of longer? (1000 bytes is 12 lines of 80 chars).

Or this is the very first message you generate? (other than the normal messages generated by mfe.c?)

Is there anything in midas.log around the time of the crash? (post it here or email it to me?) Also I would
like to see everything printed by your frontend from the start time all the way to the crash.

You can also add this code "assert(4+3*sizeof(int)+len < 1020)" in cm_msg_buffer() right before
rb_increment_wp() - it this assert fails, we definitely determine that we have a buffer overflow.

Thank in advance,
K.O.