 25 Feb 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, fixed: double free in FORMAT_MIDAS ybos.c causing lazylogger crashes
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We stumbled upon and fixed a "double free" bug in src/ybos.c causing crashes in
lazylogger writing .mid files in the FORMAT_MIDAS format (why does it use
ybos.c? Pierre says- for generic file i/o). Why this code had ever worked before
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 31 Mar 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, ODB dump format switched to XML
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> > All the XML functionality is implemented in the new mxml.c/h library
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> mxml.c/h ... I separated it's CVS tree.
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21 Apr 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, pointers and segfault in yb_any_file_rclose
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> I'm getting segfaults in yb_any_file_rclose (closing a file opened with
> yb_any_file_ropen with type MIDAS).
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21 Apr 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, 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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05 May 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, fix: minor bit rot in the example experiment
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I fixed some minor bit rot in the example experiment: a few minor Makefile
problems, make the analyzer use the current histogram creation macros, etc. I
also added startup and shutdown scripts. These will be documented as we work
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02 Aug 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, fix odb corruption when running analzer for the first time
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I have been plagued by ODB corruption when I run the analyzer for the first time
after setting up the new experiment. Some time ago, I traced this to
mana.c::book_ttree() and now I found and fixed the bug, fix now commited to
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18 Aug 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, midas Makefile changes
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Minor Makefile changes:
- add "-m32" gcc flag to force 32-bit compilation on 64-bit Linux.
- do not link ybos.o into lazylogger and mdump.
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18 Aug 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, CAMAC register_cnaf_callback()
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Some time ago, the "remote CAMAC" functionality in mfe.c was made conditional on
HAVE_CAMAC. This flag is not set by default so remote camac calls silently do
not work, unless midas is compiled in a special way. I am too lazy to compile
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18 Aug 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, minor changes to run transition code
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Minor changes to run transitions code:
- improve debug messages
- fail transition if cannot connect to one of the clients
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18 Aug 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, fix race condition between clients on run start/stop, pause/resume
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It turns out that the new priority sequencing of run state transitions had a
flaw: the frontends, the analyzer and the logger all registered at priority 500
and were invoked in essentially a random order. For example the frontend could
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23 Aug 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, new mvmestd api
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For some time now, we have been thinking of updating the programming interface
for the VME bus interface drivers- mvmestd.h.
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10 Sep 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, new mvmestd api
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> Good that you brought up the MIDAS VME API again, since this is still not complete, but
> has to be completed soon.
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19 Sep 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Added driver for the Wiener CC-USB CAMAC interface
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Commited to CVS is the preliminary driver for the Wiener CC-USB CAMAC interface.
The driver implements all the mcstd.h camac access functions, except for those
not supported by hardware (8-bit operations, interrupts) and a few esoteric
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14 Dec 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, misc problems
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I would like to document a few problems I ran into while setting up a new
experiment (two USB interfaces to Alice TPC electronics, plus maybe a USB
interface to CAMAC). I am using a midas cvs checkout from last October, so I am
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22 Dec 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, midas max event size?
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My TPC events are fairly large: 18 FEC cards * 128 channels per card * 2 Kbytes
per channel = about 4 Mbytes. In my
frontend, when I request this event size, MIDAS complaints (in mfe.c) that it is
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22 Dec 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, How do I do custom event building?
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It turns out the the standard event builder fragment matching algorithm cannot
be used in my TPC application. I have two TPC-USB interfaces, which lack any
"busy" or synchronization logic. I send the hardware trigger into both
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23 Dec 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, minor changes to run transition code
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> Minor changes to run transitions code:
> - fail transition if cannot connect to one of the clients
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28 Dec 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, Handling multiple identical USB devices
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When I wrote the musbstd.h "open" method, I kind of punted on the problem of
handling multiple identical USB devices. Instead of a real solution, I added an
"instance" parameter, which allows one to "open" the "first", "second", etc USB
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30 Dec 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, mhttpd "edit on start" broken for arrays
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If a variable under "/experiment/edit on start/" is an array, it is correctly
offered for editing on the "start run page", but then all elements in the array
end up set to the value of the first element.
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07 May 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, Update & add VME drivers
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I commited fixes for a few minor compilation errors in the VME drivers
(vmicvme.c, etc)
I also added new drivers for the v513 latch and v560 scaler that I wrote for
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