 07 Aug 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, Fix crash in mfe.c
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Some time ago, I accidentally introduced a bug in mfe.c- if there is data
congestion in the system, mfe.c can exit with the error "bm_flush_cache(ASYNC)
error 209" because it did not expect the valid return value BM_ASYNC_RETURN
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07 Aug 2006, Stefan Ritt, Info, New multi-threaded midas slow control system
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[b]Multi-threaded slow control system[/b]
The Midas slow control system has been modified to support multi-threaded slow control front-ends. Each device gets it's own thread in the front-end, which |
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02 Aug 2006, Shawn Bishop, Bug Report, MIDAS packaged examples: compilation bug?
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Hi All,
I switched to Sci. Linux 4.3, from FC5, and was able to get the guts of MIDAS to compile without any difficulties. Now, I have followed the "Quick Start" |
 03 Aug 2006, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, MIDAS packaged examples: compilation bug?
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[quote="Shawn Bishop"]Anyone have an idea what's going on here?[/quote]
The Makefile contained the outdated target [B]fal[/B], which is a combined frontend/analyzer/logger. You don't need that, so I removed it from the makefile. |
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03 Aug 2006, Shawn Bishop, Bug Report, MIDAS packaged examples: compilation bug?
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[quote="Stefan Ritt"][quote="Shawn Bishop"]Anyone have an idea what's going on here?[/quote]
The Makefile contained the outdated target [B]fal[/B], which is a combined frontend/analyzer/logger. You don't need that, so I removed it from the makefile. |
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03 Aug 2006, Shawn Bishop, Bug Report, MIDAS packaged examples: compilation bug?
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[quote="Stefan Ritt"][quote="Shawn Bishop"]Anyone have an idea what's going on here?[/quote]
The Makefile contained the outdated target [B]fal[/B], which is a combined frontend/analyzer/logger. You don't need that, so I removed it from the makefile. |
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01 Aug 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, User-tunable buffer sizes
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By default, MIDAS creates shared memory event data buffers of default size
EVENT_BUFFER_SIZE defined in midas.h and until now making of large data buffers
for high data rate or large event size experiments was complicated.
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31 Jul 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, Fix user memory corruption in ODB
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We have been seeing consistent user memory corruption while setting up a new
experiment. This has been traced to a user memory overwrite in ODB db_set_data()
function and this problem is now fixed. This error was triggered by our frontend
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28 Jul 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, mhttpd: use more strlcpy(), fix a few bugs
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While investigating the mhttpd password error with the MacOS Safari browser, I
found that it was caused by an strcpy() buffer overflow. With Stefan's blessing,
I now converted most uses of strcpy() and strcat() to strlcpy() and strlcat().
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27 Jul 2006, Shawn Bishop, Bug Report, MIDAS revision 3184 bombs on FC5
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Hi All,
I just did a fresh download of midas (revision 3184) onto a newly setup FC5 box. Compilation bombs. Printout of compiler output as follows:
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27 Jul 2006, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, MIDAS revision 3184 bombs on FC5
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[quote="Shawn Bishop"]include/musbstd.h:29:17: error: usb.h: No such file or directory[/quote]
This indicates that you are missing libusb. If you can find a RPM for libusb, that will solve your problem. But anyhow we should modify the makefile such |
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25 Jul 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, mhttpd passwords broken for MacOS 10.4 Safari
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I observe that the mhttpd passwords do not work correctly for the Safari web browser on MacOS 10.4.7:
Safari 2.0.4 (419.3). For example, I cannot submit elog messages- the system gets stuck on the
"Password" page. The Safari browser in MacOS 10.3 works fine. Mozilla/Firefox works fine. (Also would be
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24 Jul 2006, Art Olin, Bug Report, Elog attachments 
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Hi. When I attach the file below, Mix+Positronorig.xlx to an elog, and then open it or download it to disk, the file, 060... is severely truncated.
-rw-r--r-- 1 alpha users 17408 Jul 24 11:25 Mix+Positronorig.xls
-rw-r--r-- 1 alpha users 1 Jul 24 11:04 060724_100544_Mix+Positron Cabling 20060723.xls
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24 Jul 2006, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Elog attachments
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[quote="Art Olin"]Hi. When I attach the file below, Mix+Positronorig.xlx to an elog, and then open it or download it to disk, the file, 060... is severely
truncated.
-rw-r--r-- 1 alpha users 17408 Jul 24 11:25 Mix+Positronorig.xls
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23 Jul 2006, Art Olin, Forum, File output for histories
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The ALPHA experiment at CERN has recently adopted MIDAS, and the history data in numerical form is needed by the collaboration. Furthermore the DAQ is running
under linux and most collaborators are windows or mac users, so it should be available in a platform independent way.
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23 Jul 2006, Stefan Ritt, Forum, File output for histories
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[quote="Art Olin"]Basically we need the output from the mhist code. The most convenient, and possibly easiest implementation would be to select required
data (ID, variable, time range) in the midas history display, click a button requesting file output and input a file name. One might also want to specify
the interval time required.[/quote]
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23 Jul 2006, Art Olin, Forum, File output for histories
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Hi, Stefan,
Using mhist is how I'll start, but I'm getting substantial resistance. It's not so much the command line that's the problem. First I have to install an |
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24 Jul 2006, Sergio Ballestrero, Forum, File output for histories
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Hi Art,
you can make the process somewhat less painful by using the Plink (from PuTTY) to run mhist as a remote command, piping the output to a local file:
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.58/htmldoc/Chapter7.html#plink-batch
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11 Jul 2006, Razvan Stefan Gornea, Forum, Tundra Universe CA91C042
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I am not using Midas but I need some help from somebody experienced with VME access using the Tundra Universe, so I thought here I have a chance ...
I have a GE Fanuc 7700 and use the vme_universe driver (ver. 3.3). In the past I programed for a DAQ board using A24/D16. Now I have a new board using |
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13 Jun 2006, Stefan Ritt, Info, Scheduler changed for slow control equipment
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The schedule in mfe.c is used both for "normal" front-ends and for "slow-control" front-ends. Unfortunately it was only optimized for the first class. This
lead to the fact that the slow control equipment was read out at different speed depending if the run is started or not. Furthermore, the maximum readout
speed was somehow limited. This has been changed in the current version of mfe.c (SVN revision 3146). There are now two ways to control the readout speed |
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13 Jun 2006, Stefan Ritt, Info, ZLIB dependency modified
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Due to recent problems with the ROME analyzer having zlib.h both in the
system and in the midas tree it has been decided to change the zlib policy in midas. By default, zlib support is not included in the midas analyzer. If
one want it (but I guess only very few experiments need that), one can do a
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08 Jun 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, fix compilation of musbstd.h, add it back to libmidas
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I fixed the compilation of musbstd.h (it required -DHAVE_LIBUSB on Linux, but
nothing knew about defining it) and put musbstd.o back into libmidas (USB
support should be part of the standard base midas library). K.O. |
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09 Jun 2006, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, fix compilation of musbstd.h, add it back to libmidas
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> I fixed the compilation of musbstd.h (it required -DHAVE_LIBUSB on Linux, but
> nothing knew about defining it) and put musbstd.o back into libmidas (USB
> support should be part of the standard base midas library). K.O.
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08 Jun 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, Midas does not build on Fedora 5
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Fresh svn checkout of MIDAS does not build on Fedora 5, I get this error:
cc -c -g -O2 -Wall -Wuninitialized -Iinclude -Idrivers -I../mxml -Llinux/lib
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08 Jun 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, updated vmicvme driver
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I commited the latest VMIC VME driver we use at TRIUMF. It has working support
for D32 and D64 DMA and can move data from the SIS3820 multiscaler through the
MIDAS frontend at > 30 Mbytes/sec on our VMICVME-7805 machines. The actual DMA
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31 May 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, mhist could not look at array data
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When using mhist interactively, I could not look at array data:
1) if the array is the only variable, the question "what array index to use?"
was not asked, zero was assumed,
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30 May 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, badness with vxworks/ppc
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It appears that the latest version of MIDAS malfunctions on PowerPC/VxWorks
machines, below are two problem reports. As reported, previous versions of MIDAS
work fine, I guess that reduces the probability of it being buggy user code. At
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25 May 2006, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, Fixed compiler warnings with gcc 3.4.4
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I fixed a couple of compiler warning which came up with the new gcc 3.4.4. Seems like the compiler gets more and more picky. There a still warning left
in ybos.c and in mcnaf.c, which I leave to the original author ;) |
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25 May 2006, Pierre-Andre Amaudruz, Bug Fix, Fixed compiler warnings with gcc 3.4.4
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[quote="Stefan Ritt"]I fixed a couple of compiler warning which came up with the new gcc 3.4.4. Seems like the compiler gets more and more picky. There
a still warning left in ybos.c and in mcnaf.c, which I leave to the original author ;)[/quote]
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25 May 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, fix crash in xml odb load
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There is a crash in odbedit when loading some xml odb files: a missing check for NULL pointer when
loading an array of strings and one of the array elements is blank. This check is present when loading
other string values. Here is the diff:
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