 03 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mscb usb support for macosx
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After a felicitous confuence of stellar bodies (Stefan, myself, some mscb hardware
and a mac laptop all in the same room for a few days), I wrote some MacOSX
code to support the MSCB-USB dongle using the native IoKit USB API. During testing,
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29 Sep 2004, Stefan Ritt, Info, Increased number of clients in midas.h, important!
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Due to some request several limitations like the maximal number of clients to the ODB have
been increased in midas.h and committed to CVS. It is important to note that clients compiled
with the old limits cannot coexist with clients compiled with the new limits. You will get
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 03 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Increased number of clients in midas.h, important!
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> It is important to note that clients compiled
> with the old limits cannot coexist with clients compiled with the new limits. You will get
> ODB corruption notifications and everything will crash, and you wonder where this comes from.
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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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03 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Increased number of clients in midas.h, important!
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> However, we are planning to make a new release 1.9.5 soon (next week), so can can people tell not to "mix" 1.9.5 with pre-1.9.5 programs.
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
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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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08 Oct 2004, chris pearson, Info, Increased number of clients in midas.h, important!
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> > For one thing, looking at a given midas-using executable, how do I tell what version of midas it has inside?
>
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08 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Increased number of clients in midas.h, important!
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> A lot of programs have a commandline option, such as "--version", where they return the program version number then exit. As well as the
> program version number, the version number of the midas library it's linked with could also be returned (There can be more than one
> libmidas.so on a system and this would show which one was currently being linked)
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13 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, db_paste: found string exceeding MAX_STRING_LENGTH
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I am updating TWIST to the latest MIDAS and when I load a saved .odb file, I get
these messages. Their text ought to say where and what strings it does not like.
K.O.
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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, Konstantin Olchanski, 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, 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, Konstantin Olchanski, 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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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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13 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, 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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13 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, TWIST upgrade bombed...
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The upgrade of TWIST to the latest midas has bombed- we see mevb and mlogger
crashes during shared memory data buffer accesses. I am looking into it and I
will add information as I figure things out. K.O. |
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13 Oct 2004, Pierre-Andre Amaudruz, Bug Report, TWIST upgrade bombed...
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> The upgrade of TWIST to the latest midas has bombed- we see mevb and mlogger
> crashes during shared memory data buffer accesses. I am looking into it and I
> will add information as I figure things out. K.O.
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13 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, TWIST upgrade bombed...
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> > The upgrade of TWIST to the latest midas has bombed- we see mevb and mlogger
> > crashes during shared memory data buffer accesses. I am looking into it and I
> > will add information as I figure things out. K.O.
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13 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, TWIST upgrade bombed...
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> The upgrade of TWIST to the latest midas has bombed- we see mevb and mlogger
> crashes during shared memory data buffer accesses. I am looking into it and I
> will add information as I figure things out. 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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14 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, TWIST upgrade bombed...
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> The upgrade of TWIST to the latest midas has bombed- we see mevb and mlogger
> crashes during shared memory data buffer accesses. I am looking into it and I
> will add information as I figure things out. K.O.
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22 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, mhttpd message colouring
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I commited a fix to mhttpd logic that decides which messages should be shown in
"red" colour- before, any message with square brackets and colons would be
highlighted in red. Now only messages matching the pattern [...:...] are
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02 Nov 2004, Renee Poutissou, Info, Event Builder info in mhttpd Status page
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Information about the Event Builder statistics has been removed from the
Status page in mhttpd. I heard from Pierre that this information might
be redundant when using the new Event Builder format???
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04 Nov 2004, Jan Wouters, Forum, Frontend code and the ODB
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I would like to know whether all parameters used by the frontend code have to be in the "Experiment/
Run Parameters" section. This section can become big and difficult to maintain, because it is one single
big section of experim.h (EXP_PARAM_DEFINED). I have parameters the various frontends read at the
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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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09 Nov 2004, Pierre-Andre Amaudruz, Bug Fix, New transition scheme
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Problem:
If cm_set_transition_sequence() is used for changing the sequence number, the
command odbedit> start/stop/resume/pause -v report the propre sequence but the
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24 Nov 2004, chris pearson, Info, midas on 64bit opteron
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Midas, version 1.9.5 of 7th October, was installed, with a few changes, on a
64 bit opteron computer, running linux. For this processor, as for the alpha
processor, long integers and addresses are 64 bits. We added a new flag in the
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25 Nov 2004, chris pearson, Forum, use of assert in mhttpd
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We've had mhttpd aborting regularly since upgrading from midas-1.9.3. This
happens during elog queries, and is due to an elog file that was incorrectly
modified by hand. The modification to the file occurred 6 months ago.
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14 Dec 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, use of assert in mhttpd
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> We've had mhttpd aborting regularly since upgrading from midas-1.9.3. This
> happens during elog queries, and is due to an elog file that was incorrectly
> modified by hand.
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14 Dec 2004, Jan Wouters, Forum, Frontend index
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What is the api call to determine the index of the frontend when specifying the
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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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15 Dec 2004, , Forum, Where's the definition of "H1_BOOK()"
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When i compile the experiment example of 1.9.5 the problem happened:
adccalib.c: In function `INT adc_calib_init()':
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15 Dec 2004, Pierre-Andre Amaudruz, Forum, Where's the definition of "H1_BOOK()"
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> When i compile the experiment example of 1.9.5 the problem happened:
>
> adccalib.c: In function `INT adc_calib_init()':
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14 Dec 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Commit local TWIST modifications
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I am commiting MIDAS modification accumulated during the last few months of running TWIST:
1) system.c::ss_shm_open() fail if trying to map a file that is smaller than we expect.
2) midas.c::bm_lock_buffer(), el_submit(), el_delete_message(): do not wait for mutexes forever, use a 5
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14 Dec 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Commit local TWIST modifications
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> I am commiting MIDAS modification accumulated during the last few months of running TWIST:
More:
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14 Dec 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd: Commit local TWIST modifications
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> > I am commiting MIDAS modification accumulated...
mhttpd changes:
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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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16 Dec 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, "cd /" in ss_daemon_init(), was- 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.
>
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16 Dec 2004, Jan Wouters, 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, 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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20 Jan 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, Persistency problem with h1_book() & co
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The current h1_book() macros (and the previous example analyzer code) have an
odd persistency problem: for example, the user wants to change some histogram
limits, edits the h1_book() calls, rebuilds and restarts the analyzer, starts a
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21 Jan 2005, John M O'Donnell, Bug Report, Persistency problem with h1_book() & co
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> The current h1_book() macros (and the previous example analyzer code) have an
> odd persistency problem: for example, the user wants to change some histogram
> limits, edits the h1_book() calls, rebuilds and restarts the analyzer, starts a
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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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25 Jan 2005, John M O'Donnell, Bug Report, Persistency problem with h1_book() & co
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So now that cvs is reachable again I have confirmed that
the code segment
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20 Jan 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, HOWTO create ROOT objects in the MIDAS analyzer
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With recent changes to mana.c, creation of user ROOT objects in the MIDAS
analyser has changed. Here is the new example code for creating ROOT objects
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25 Jan 2005, John M O'Donnell, Suggestion, HOWTO create ROOT objects in the MIDAS analyzer
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> (preliminary, untested. I will keep this updated as I get testing feedback)
>
> With recent changes to mana.c, creation of user ROOT objects in the MIDAS
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25 Jan 2005, John M O'Donnell, 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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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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