 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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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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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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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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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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07 Aug 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, Refactoring and rewrite of event buffer code
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In close cooperation with Stefan, I refactored and rewrote the MIDAS event
buffering code (bm_send_event, bm_flush_cache, bm_receive_event and bm_push_event).
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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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 09 Aug 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, Refactoring and rewrite of event buffer code
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> In close cooperation with Stefan, I refactored and rewrote the MIDAS event
> buffering code (bm_send_event, bm_flush_cache, bm_receive_event and bm_push_event).
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17 Aug 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, "double" values are truncated
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The mhttpd ODB displays and mhist truncate values of "float" and "double"
floating point variables to 6 digits. In reality, "float" has 7 significant
digits and "double" has 16. I recommend that db_sprintf() in odb.c be changed to
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19 Aug 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, fixes for minor mhttpd problems
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I commited fix for minor mhttpd problems (rev 3314):
- for a newly created experiment, the "history" button gave the error [history
panel "" does not exist] (new problem introduced in revision 3150)
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26 Aug 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, fixes for minor mhttpd problems
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> I commited fix for minor mhttpd problems (rev 3314):
> - elog attachments did not work for file names containing character plus (+)
> (attachement URLs should be properly encoded to escape special CGI characters)
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04 Sep 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, Fix MIDAS on MacOS 10.4.7
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I commited minor fixes for building MIDAS on MacOS 10.4.7:
1) there is no linux/unistd.h
2) gcc 4.0.0 does not like "struct { ... } var;" although "struct Foo { ... } var;" is fine
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05 Sep 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Forums moved from dasdevpc.triumf.ca to ladd00.triumf.ca
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For the record, the MIDAS (& co) forums have been physically moved from
dasdevpc.triumf.ca to our new server machine ladd00.triumf.ca. This change
should be transparent to all users, but if anything stops working, please let me
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23 Sep 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, mhttpd elog corruption via double-edit
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Aparently the mhttpd elog will corrupt the elog files if two (or more?) elog entries are being edited at the
same time. K.O. |
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23 Sep 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, commit latest ccusb.c CAMAC-USB driver
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> I commited the latest driver for the Wiener CCUSB USB-CAMAC driver. It
> implements all functions from mcstd.h and has been tested to be plug-compatible
> with at least one of our CAMAC frontends. K.O.
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27 Sep 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, mhttpd elog corruption via double-edit
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[quote="Stefan Ritt"][Quote="K.O.]Aparently the mhttpd elog will corrupt the
elog files if two (or more\?) elog entries are being edited at the same time.
K.O.[/quote]
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27 Sep 2006, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, Increase of maximum event size
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> The current event size in midas is limited to 512k (MAX_EVENT_SIZE in midas.h)
Yes, 512 kBytes is rather small. For the T2K prototype TPC DAQ, I built and ran
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22 Jan 2007, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Midas on a x86_64
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> has anyone managed to get midas to work on a x86_64 processor. I followed the
> instructions for the 64-bit opteron but i am getting runtime error when trying
> the examples.
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05 Feb 2007, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, wrong version in include/midas.h?
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The present .../include/midas.h contains
[alpha@laddvme06 ~/online]$ grep 1.9.5 /home/alpha/packages/midas/include/*
/home/alpha/packages/midas/include/midas.h:#define MIDAS_VERSION "1.9.5"
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11 Feb 2007, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, svn and "make indent" trashed my svn checkout tree...
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Fuming, fuming, fuming.
The combination of "make indent" and "svn update" completely trashed my work copy of midas. Half of
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