 21 Nov 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MIDAS support on el5?
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It has been reported that the current midas release candidate does not build on el5 linux (SL/RHEL/CentOS-5).
According to Red Hat, el5 is end-of-life, last SL 5 (SL5.11) was done in 2014, so this linux is very old. Also as it happens, I do not have access to any |
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10 Nov 2017, Frederik Wauters, Bug Report, bug in init of hv class driver
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bug in init
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 17 Nov 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, bug in init of hv class driver
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Hi, Frederick, this is my personal opinion on the slow controls hv classes, I have
used them a couple of times and I found them full of little buglets like this,
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21 Nov 2017, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, bug in init of hv class driver
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> bug in init
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21 Nov 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, bug in init of hv class driver
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>
> The original idea behind the hv driver is that all voltages in the ODB and the class driver are
> positive. If you have a negative power supply, then the voltage is inverted at the device
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15 Nov 2017, Andreas Knecht, Suggestion, Feature request: Separate ODB flag to show programs on "Programs page"
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Currently one has to set the required flag in the ODB (e.g., /Programs/Logger/Required) to "y" for the program
to appear on the "Programs page" and being able to start and stop the program easily.
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17 Nov 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, Feature request: Separate ODB flag to show programs on "Programs page"
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> Currently one has to set the required flag in the ODB (e.g., /Programs/Logger/Required) to "y" for the program
> to appear on the "Programs page" and being able to start and stop the program easily.
>
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21 Nov 2017, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, Feature request: Separate ODB flag to show programs on "Programs page"
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> > Currently one has to set the required flag in the ODB (e.g., /Programs/Logger/Required) to "y" for the program
> > to appear on the "Programs page" and being able to start and stop the program easily.
> >
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02 Nov 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, Fixed mlogger memory corruption, updated mxml
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I the agdaq system I see memory corruption in the mlogger. There were at least two bugs: one
memory allocation error in mxml and one incorrect memset() in mlogger.cxx. The mxml bug is fixed
in the mxml repository, mlogger.cxx bug is fixed in the midas-2017-10 branch.
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13 Oct 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, odb multithread support repaired
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multithreaded access to odb was implemented back in 2013-2014. but recently a bug surfaced -
there was a race condition in the odb locking code against cm_watchdog(). Somehow this only
affected the mserver for the DRAGON experiment at TRIUMF. This is now fixed on the branch
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11 Oct 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, added support for ucLinux
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Support for building for ucLinux was added to MIDAS. I use the emcraft toolchain and userland on
some kind of embedded ARM CPU that does not have an MMU. See the Makefile for details. The
main difference of ucLinux is lack of fork(), which cannot be done without an MMU. Not everything
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27 Jul 2017, Wes Gohn, Suggestion, Increasing Max Number of Frontends
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Below are the steps we used to increase the maximum number of frontends that we could run.
In midas.h
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10 Aug 2017, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, Increasing Max Number of Frontends
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The sizeof checks were originally invented by KO to check for binary compatibility between processes attached to the same ODB and event buffers. So if a
compiler generates different structure sizes due to different padding, one would see that immediately. I wonder however if the absolute numbers make sense |
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12 Aug 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, Increasing Max Number of Frontends
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The checks for byte sizes of critical data structures have been added to ensure (enforce) binary compatibility
of midas with itself on different platforms (32-bit and 64-bit intel, on PPC, on ARM, etc).
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13 Aug 2017, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, Increasing Max Number of Frontends
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I agree that the binary compatibility checks are crucial. But I kind of find it strange if one gets an assert failure some where if one tries to change
MAX_CLIENTS. It is then not straight
forward to relate both things and understand the consequences. That's why I put a comment next to the definition of MAX_CLIENTS saying:
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13 Aug 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, Increasing Max Number of Frontends
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> if (sizeof(INT) != 4) then severe_error_and_stop_all_programs()
Quick reply.
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13 Aug 2017, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, Increasing Max Number of Frontends
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The type INT has been defined in 1989 when I for the first time sent data between a 16-bit MS-DOS computer and a 32-bit VAX computer (good old
days!). At that time, uint32_t was not available at all. So much for the historical background.
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04 Aug 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Notes on installing midas from scratch
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Notes on installing midas from scratch. The instruction on midaswiki will be synced with this later.
cd ~/packages
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07 Aug 2017, Stefan Ritt, Info, Notes on installing midas from scratch
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Thanks for documenting this in detail. A few suggestions:
- is it really necessary to call odbedit three times? Maybe two or even three functions can be merged. Like you call odbinit, it checks if the environment |
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04 May 2017, Thomas Lindner, Forum, MIDAS Workshop - July 26
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Dear MIDAS users,
We would like to announce another MIDAS workshop at TRIUMF on July 26, 2017.
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11 Jul 2017, Thomas Lindner, Forum, MIDAS Workshop - July 26
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Dear MIDAS users,
We have an approximately final agenda for the MIDAS workshop in two weeks. The
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19 Jul 2017, Thomas Lindner, Forum, MIDAS Workshop - July 26
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Dear MIDAS colleagues,
We will use Zoom for people making remote connections to the MIDAS workshop next week. The connection details
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25 Jul 2017, Thomas Lindner, Forum, MIDAS Workshop - July 26
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Hi Folks,
I just realized I never provided the location for the meeting (for those at TRIUMF). It will be in the ISAC-II conference room.
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25 Jul 2017, Stefan Ritt, Info, Current git repository "develop" branch broken
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Dear all,
we are currently undergoing major modifications in the way mhttpd is working. I realized that
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13 Jul 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, implemented: json-rpc batch requests
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The mhttpd json-rpc interface now implements batch requests per
http://www.jsonrpc.org/specification#batch
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19 Jun 2017, Thomas Lindner, Bug Report, mhttpd ODB editor changes string length, breaks
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I guess this might be related to the changes in the last elog conversation; but
I'll break it out as a separate problem.
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21 Jun 2017, Thomas Lindner, Bug Report, mhttpd ODB editor changes string length, breaks
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To follow up; with some help from Konstantin and Stefan, we realized that this
particular problem should already be fixed. While I was using the most recent version
of MIDAS, I hadn't rebuild the EPICS frontend programs when I was doing this test. Once
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20 Jun 2017, Richard Longland, Forum, High Rate
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07 Jun 2017, Alberto Remoto, Forum, Increase MAX_EVENT_SIZE
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Hello,
I am using a CAEN v1720 to digitise signal coming from 5 PMTs and I need to extend the read-
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13 Apr 2017, Andreas Suter, Bug Report, stop form odbedit broken
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when I try to stop a run from odbedit I get a core dump.
[ODBEdit1,INFO] Run #31 stopped odbedit: src/system.c:1223: ss_shm_flush:
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13 Apr 2017, Andreas Suter, Bug Report, stop form odbedit broken
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> when I try to stop a run from odbedit I get a core dump.
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> [ODBEdit1,INFO] Run #31 stopped odbedit: src/system.c:1223: ss_shm_flush:
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15 Apr 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, stop form odbedit broken
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> > when I try to stop a run from odbedit I get a core dump.
> >
> > [ODBEdit1,INFO] Run #31 stopped odbedit: src/system.c:1223: ss_shm_flush:
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15 Apr 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, MAX_STRING_LENGTH, stop form odbedit broken
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> I shall check on the use of MAX_STRING_LENGTH at least in odb itself...
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15 Apr 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, MAX_STRING_LENGTH, stop form odbedit broken
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> >
> > I shall check on the use of MAX_STRING_LENGTH at least in odb itself...
> >
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19 Apr 2017, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, MAX_STRING_LENGTH, stop form odbedit broken
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> Fixed a small buglet, now saving and reloading odb in the old ".odb" format will silently truncate all overlong strings to 256 bytes. (I think it always
did that).
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22 Apr 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, MAX_STRING_LENGTH, stop form odbedit broken
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> > Fixed a small buglet, now saving and reloading odb in the old ".odb" format will silently truncate all overlong strings to 256 bytes. (I think it always
did that).
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06 Jun 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, MAX_STRING_LENGTH, stop form odbedit broken
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> ... the xml reader, probably has same problem
> ... xml writer truncates long strings via truncation in db_sprintf()
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19 Apr 2017, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, MAX_STRING_LENGTH, stop form odbedit broken
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ODB name lengths (the name of a key) are limited to 256 characters, the length of strings in the ODB should NOT be limited. At some point we wanted to have
complete web pages inside the ODB,
which for sure are longer than 256 characters. While this was the idea, I see now that db_paste & co. is hopelessly broken. To fix it, everything should |
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22 Apr 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, MAX_STRING_LENGTH, stop form odbedit broken
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> ODB name lengths (the name of a key) are limited to 256 characters, the length of strings in the ODB should NOT be limited.
Right, I was not ever aware of such limitation until I just now looked at the .odb and .xml writing code. Definitely string length
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02 May 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, mhttpd inline-editor and web MAX_STRING_LENGTH, stop form odbedit broken
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> > I shall check on the use of MAX_STRING_LENGTH at least in odb itself...
Also tested the web interface:
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24 Apr 2017, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, stop form odbedit broken
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> CSS File = STRING : [1024] mhttpd.css
> Sqlite dir = STRING : [1024]
> History dir = STRING : [1024]
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15 Apr 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, where to report bugs, stop form odbedit broken
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> What is the preferred channel to report potential bugs (elog / bitbucket issues)?
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15 Apr 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, stop form odbedit broken
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> when I try to stop a run from odbedit I get a core dump.
> [ODBEdit1,INFO] Run #31 stopped odbedit: src/system.c:1223: ss_shm_flush:
> Assertion `size == mmap_size[handle]' failed. Aborted (core dumped)
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16 May 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, problem with odb strings and db_get_record()
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Suddenly the mhttpd odb inline editor is truncating the odb string entries to the actual length of the
stored string value, this causes db_get_record() explode with "structure mismatch" errors. (Not my
fault, You Honor! Honest!). For example, I see these errors from al_check() after changing
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31 May 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, problem with odb strings and db_get_record()
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> What a mess.
The mess with db_get_record() and db_open_record() is even deeper than I thought. There are several anomalies.
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31 May 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, problem with odb strings and db_get_record()
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> 2) replace all uses of db_open_record(MODE_READ) with db_watch() in conjunction with db_get_record1().
Done to all in-tree programs, except for mana.c (not using it), sequencer.cxx (cannot test it) and a few places where watching a TID_INT.
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06 Jun 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, problem with odb strings and db_get_record()
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> Done to all in-tree programs, except for mana.c (not using it), sequencer.cxx (cannot test it) and a few places where watching a TID_INT.
> Nothing more needs to be done, other than turn off the check for hotlink in db_create_record() & co (removed #define CHECK_OPEN_RECORD in odb.c).
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02 Jun 2017, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, problem with odb strings and db_get_record()
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That all makes sense to me.
Stefan
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31 May 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, modified db_watch() arguments
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for reasons unknown, db_watch() did not have an "info" parameter passed through to the callback
handler function, like it is done with db_open_record().
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09 May 2017, Andreas Suter, Bug Report, mhttpd / history / export data
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A handy feature of the history of the mhttpd is to export the data. However, this
seems to be broken. It currently only works if the run marker flag is activated by
fails otherwise. |
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16 May 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, mhttpd / history / export data
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> A handy feature of the history of the mhttpd is to export the data. However, this
> seems to be broken. It currently only works if the run marker flag is activated by
> fails otherwise.
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26 Apr 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, added db_get_value_string()
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Since we have been regularly running into problems with db_get_xxx(TID_STRING) and string buffers of mismatched size,
I now implemented db_get_value_string(hdb, hkey, key_name, index, &string, create).
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26 Apr 2017, Stefan Ritt, Info, added db_get_value_string()
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Just some thought for discussion:
Rather than "spicing up" the MIDAS library here and there with C++ objects such as std::string, wouldn't it make more sense to "cleanly" wrap an ODB value |
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02 May 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, added db_get_value_string()
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> Just some thought for discussion:
Even more thoughts:
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02 May 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, added db_resize_string()
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> Since we have been regularly running into problems with db_get_xxx(TID_STRING) and string buffers of mismatched size,
> I now implemented db_get_value_string(hdb, hkey, key_name, index, &string, create).
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18 Apr 2017, Andreas Suter, Bug Report, run start/stop oddity
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I stumbled over an oddity which I would like to understand better. Here the
boundaries:
- Enable non-localhost RPC -> y
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02 May 2017, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, run start/stop oddity
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I should really get around to fix this junk error message:
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