 08 Jul 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, jorway73a.c, Data taking hangs in the middle of run
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> > Could you give more info on your setup:
> > - CAMAC controller model
> Jorway 73A, we have three in hand and the problem doesn't depend on which controller
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03 Aug 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, How to distinguish the status and value returned from "mvme_read_value(...)"
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> uint32_t mvme_read_value(MVME_INTERFACE * vme, mvme_addr_t vme_addr);
> Question: How to distinguish the status and value returned?
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 10 Aug 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, misc changes from PIENU and T2K
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FYI - committed the last changes from TRIUMF DAQ systems for PIENU and T2K/ND280 FGD and TPC
tests:
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10 Aug 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, misc changes from PIENU and T2K
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> FYI - committed the last changes from TRIUMF DAQ systems for PIENU and T2K/ND280 FGD and TPC
> tests:
> svn rev 4541
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21 Aug 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Link error of "mcnaf"
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> If you compile each source into an object, you may encounter a link error ...
Also camac rpc did not work at all last time we tried to use it at triumf, maybe 4 month ago in the Dragon
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27 Sep 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’
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> I encountered many warning while building MIDAS (svn r4556). Please see the
> attached log file. Most of them are caused by type conversion from string to
> "char*".
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30 Sep 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, Error invoking 'odbedit': db_validate_size
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> $ odbedit -e expcvadc
> odbedit: /opt/DAQ/repos/bot/midas/src/odb.c:651: db_validate_sizes: Assertion
`sizeof(EQUIPMENT_INFO) == 400' failed.
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30 Sep 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, mh2sql does not build, Error invoking 'odbedit': db_validate_size
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> Linking CXX executable bin/mh2sql
> CMakeFiles/mh2sql.dir/utils/mh2sql.cxx.o: In function `main':
> /opt/DAQ/repos/bot/midas/utils/mh2sql.cxx:150: undefined reference to `MakeMidasHistoryODBC()'
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09 Oct 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, change to building and linking libmidas.so, mserver linking fails when using shared library
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> --- Makefile
> < ld -shared -o $@ $^ $(LIBS) -lc
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09 Oct 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, Multiple definition of `SqlODBC::SqlODBC()
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> Linking CXX shared library lib/libmidas.so
/usr/bin/c++ ... -o lib/libmidas.so ... CMakeFiles/midas-shared.dir/src/history_odbc.cxx.o
CMakeFiles/midas-shared.dir/src/history_sql.cxx.o
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11 Oct 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, Building error of history_midas.cxx due to missing declaration
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> The "g++" is whining while compiling history_midas.cxx. Please see the attached log file.
Fixed. svn 4594. K.O. |
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11 Oct 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, change to building and linking libmidas.so, mserver linking fails when using shared library
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> > > $(CXX) -shared -o $@ $^ $(LIBS) -lc
Done.
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11 Oct 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, Multiple definition of `SqlODBC::SqlODBC()
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> > Why is the class "SqlODBC" duplicated?
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> This is interesting. I do not think my C++ book spells it out that I cannot have class A in foo.cxx
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11 Oct 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, SQL history documentation
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> Documentation for writing midas history data to SQL (mysql) is now documented in midas doxygen files
> (make dox; firefox doxfiles/html/index.html). The corresponding logger and mhttpd code has been
> committed for some time now and it is used in production environment by the t2k/nd280 slow controls
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30 Oct 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Release, new lazylogger release
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I committed an updated lazylogger with updated documentation. The new version supports subruns and
can save to external storage arbitrary files (i.e. odb dump files). It also moves most book keeping out of
odb to permit handling more files on bigger storage disks.
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20 Nov 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, fix odb corruption from too long client names
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odb.c rev 4622 fixes ODB corruption by db_connect_database() if client_name is
too long. Also fixed is potential ODB corruption by too long key names in
db_create_key(). Problem kindly reported by Tim Nichols of T2K/ND280 experiment.
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20 Nov 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, disallow client names with slash '/' characters
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> odb.c rev 4622 fixes ODB corruption by db_connect_database() if client_name is
> too long. Also fixed is potential ODB corruption by too long key names in
> db_create_key(). Problem kindly reported by Tim Nichols of T2K/ND280 experiment.
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20 Nov 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, RPC.SHM gyration
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> When using remote midas clients with mserver, you may have noticed the zero-size .RPC.SHM files
> these clients create in the directory where you run them.
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25 Nov 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, subrun file size
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Please be aware of mlogger.c update rev 4566 on Sept 23rd 2009, when Stefan
fixed a buglet in the subrun file size computations. Before this fix, the first
subrun could be of a short length. If you use subruns, please update your
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25 Nov 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, once in 100 years midas shared memory bug
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We were debugging a strange problem in the event builder, where out of 14
fragments, two fragments were always getting serial number mismatches and the
serial numbers were not sequentially increasing (the other 12 fragments were
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