 03 Oct 2004, Stefan Ritt, Info, Increased number of clients in midas.h, important!
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> Stefan, to avoid confusion from crashes caused by incompatible ODBs would it be possible to add a "version number" to ODB,
together with a check and an error message
> saying "oops... incompatible ODB, please rebuild your programs"? We tend to have different versions of midas floating around and
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04 Oct 2004, Stefan Ritt, Info, Increased number of clients in midas.h, important!
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> Right. We cannot fix the past, but we should fix the future. BTW, "do not mix versions" is hard to enforce and mismatches did, do and
> will happen
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13 Oct 2004, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, db_paste: found string exceeding MAX_STRING_LENGTH
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Can you attach
/twist/data_onl/current/run17548.odb
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13 Oct 2004, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, silly odbedit "rename Display xxx/yyy"
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> odbedit command "rename Display xxx/yyy" creates a key named "xxx/yyy" (yes,
> with a slash in the name) and this key cannot be deleted or renamed...
> K.O.
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13 Oct 2004, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, No al_clear_alarm()?
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> We have al_trigger_alarm(), but no matching al_clear_alarm(), and I need it to
> clear my alarm once the alarm condition no longer exists. Any objections if I
> add this function? K.O.
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14 Oct 2004, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, TWIST upgrade bombed...
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Agree.
Once you did the modification, please check following situation: Create a fresh
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04 Nov 2004, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Frontend code and the ODB
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Hi Jan,
I usually keep under /Experiment/Run Parameters only those settings which are kind of "global" and thus of
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15 Dec 2004, Stefan Ritt, Info, Commit local TWIST modifications
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> - system.c: do not chdir("/") in ss_daemon_init()- it prevents us from ever
> getting core dumps from midas daemons. The old behaviour is trivially
> restored by "cd /" before starting the daemon; or by "limit coredumpsize 0".
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15 Dec 2004, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Frontend index
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> What is the api call to determine the index of the frontend when specifying the
> -i parameter during execution of the frontend?
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22 Dec 2004, Stefan Ritt, Forum, cm_msg
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> Could someone please explain to me how cm_msg, cm_msg1, etc. all work. The
> documentation is very terse.
>
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 22 Dec 2004, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, What to do with invalid data in the history system?
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Dealing with the NaN's in the history system in the past week, a question came
up at PSI about how to deal with invalid history data.
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23 Dec 2004, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, What to do with invalid data in the history system? 
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I preliminary implemented NaNs into the history system. It works such that if a
device driver returns a read error status, the class driver writes a NaN
(Not-a-Number) into the corresponding variable via the new function ss_nan(). The
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21 Jan 2005, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Persistency problem with h1_book() & co
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> I can't get onto cvs@midas.psi.ch right now
> (cvs update
> cvs@midas.psi.ch's password:
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25 Jan 2005, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Persistency problem with h1_book() & co
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> > I can't get onto cvs@midas.psi.ch right now
> > (cvs update
> > cvs@midas.psi.ch's password:
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26 Jan 2005, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, histograms not saved in replay mode
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> is there a reason why histograms are not saved after a replay?
>
> /* save histos if requested */
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04 Mar 2005, Stefan Ritt, Info, Real-Time 2005 Conference in Stockholm
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Dear Midas users,
may I kindly invite you present your work at the Real-Time 2005 Conference in
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24 Mar 2005, Stefan Ritt, Info, ODB dump format switched to XML
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Dear midas users,
I have changed the ODB dump format to XML. As you might know, the logger writes
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29 Mar 2005, Stefan Ritt, Info, ODB dump format switched to XML
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> All the XML functionality is implemented in the new mxml.c/h library, which has
> been added to the distribution, and which can be used in other projects as well
> (XML configuration of ROODY?). It has already been successfully implemented in
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31 Mar 2005, Stefan Ritt, Info, ODB dump format switched to XML
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> Looks like the midas mxml Makefile bits did not make it to CVS. Current Makefile
> revision 1.67 does not have them and building midas from cvs sources fails because it
> does not find mxml.h and mxml.c
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22 Apr 2005, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, Correct MIDASSYS setting?
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> Current MIDAS versions nag me about setting the env.variable MIDASSYS to the
> "midas installation directory", but I do not have one, so what should I set
> MIDASSYS to? I checkout MIDAS from cvs into /home/olchansk/daq/midas, build it
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