 25 Mar 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, midas equipment "format"
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> In the PSI muSR laboratory, we are running about 140 slow control devices across six instruments using Format FIXED.
> Could you please wait a bit with removing support for it so that we can assess if/how this will affect us?
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25 Mar 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, manalyzer module init order problem
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> Andrea Capra reported a problem with manalyzer module initialization order.
Permanent solution is now implemented.
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25 Mar 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, TMFeRpcHandlerInterface::HandleEndRun when running offline on a Midas file
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> The question was about the TMFeRpcHandlerInterface, not the TARunObject interface. Derived classes of TARunObject do indeed work as expected in our
> environment. We have worked around the issue by using an implementation of TARunObject as well as the (separate) implementation of
> TMFeRpcHandlerInterface.
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25 Mar 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, improved find_package behaviour for Midas
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> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/guide/using-dependencies/index.html#guide:Using%20Dependencies%20Guide
thank you for providing a link to latest cmake find_package() guide.
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25 Mar 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, please fix compiler warning
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Confirming warning is fixed. Thanks! K.O.
> > Unnamed person who added this clever bit of c++ coding, please fix this compiler warning. Stock g++ on Ubuntu LTS 24.04. Thanks in advance!
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25 Mar 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, please fix mscb compiler warning
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> I hopefully fixed the waring (narrowing down from size_t to int). Please double check with your compiler.
Nope, it turns out complain is about the read() size argument, they really really really want it to be
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25 Mar 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, Default write cache size for new equipments breaks compatibility with older equipments
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> > All this is kind of reasonable, as only two settings of write cache size are useful: 0 to
> > disable it, and 10 Mbytes to limit semaphore locking rate to reasonable value for all event
> > rate and size values practical on current computers.
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28 Mar 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, TMFeRpcHandlerInterface::HandleEndRun when running offline on a Midas file
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I do not understand what you are doing. If you are offline, there is no TMFE singleton instance,
there is nothing TMFeRpcHandlerInterface to attach to, there is nobody to call TMFeRpcHandlerInterface methods.
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 28 Mar 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mjsroot added
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I need to look at histograms inside a ROOT file, but all the old ways for doing this no longer work. (in theory I can scp the ROOT file to
the computer I am sitting in front of, but this assumes I have a working ROOT there. anyhow it is pointless to fight this, all modern
packages are written to only work on the developer's laptop).
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28 Mar 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, midas cmake update
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MIDAS git tag midas-2025-01-a introduced an incompatible change to "include midas-targets.cmake". Instead of "midas" one now has to
say "midas::midas", as updated below. K.O.
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28 Mar 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, improved find_package behaviour for Midas
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I figured out the breakage, added a git tag to identify where the cmake incompatible change was made (roughly)
and posted a note on how to fix it. Please reimburse me for the 2 hours I had to spend on this instead of doing
useful work. K.O. |
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28 Mar 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, manalyzer -R8082 --jsroot
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When processing MIDAS files offline, JSROOT did not work, -Rxxx worked, http
connection would open, but would not serve any histograms. This should now be
fixed.
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30 Mar 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, manalyzer improvements
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updated manalyzer:
- similar to --jsroot switch, in online mode, the ROOT output file remains open after run is stopped. Previously, after run was
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01 Apr 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, ODB and event buffer - release semaphore before abort() and core dump
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There is a long standing problem with ODB and event buffers. If they detect an
internal data inconsistency and cannot continue running, they call abort() to
dump core and stop.
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01 Apr 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, ODB corruption
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We see ODB corruption crashes in the DS20k vertical slice MIDAS instance.
Crash is memset() called by db_delete_key1() called by cm_connect_experiment().
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01 Apr 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, Sequencer ODBSET feature requests
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> ODBSET "/Path/value[1,3,5]"
> ODBSET "/Path/value[1-5,7-9]"
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01 Apr 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, MIDAS history system not using the event timestamps ?
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> I confirm that when writing out history files corresponding to the slow control event data,
> MIDAS history system timestamps the data not with the event time coming from the event data,
> but with the current time determined by [mlogger].
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02 Apr 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, MIDAS history system not using the event timestamps ?
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> > You can always include your "true" data timestamp as the first value in your data.
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> Are you saying that if the first data word of a history event were a timestamp,
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02 Apr 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, Sequencer ODBSET feature requests
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> I once looked at using LUA for this
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> > but I think basing off an full featured programming language like python
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05 May 2025, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, Bug fix in SQL history
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A bug was introduced to the SQL history in 2022 that made renaming of variable names not work. This is now fixed.
break commit:
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