 28 Oct 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, fixed mlogger run auto restart bug
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> More generally I kind of consider the mlogger auto restart facility as deprecated. It works in the background and the operator does not have a clue
> what is going on. We use now the sequencer to achieve exactly the same functionality.
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11 Nov 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Installation problem
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> I run into problems while trying to install Midas on Slackware 14.0.
Thank you for reporting this. We do not have any slackware computers so we cannot see these message usually.
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11 Nov 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Installation problem
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> > I run into problems while trying to install Midas on Slackware 14.0.
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> b) an actual error in fal.c:
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13 Nov 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Installation problem
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> > I run into problems while trying to install Midas on Slackware 14.0.
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> Thank you for reporting this. We do not have any slackware computers so we cannot see these message usually.
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14 Nov 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Installation problem
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# slackpkg file-search sql.h
[ installed ] - libiodbc-3.52.7-x86_64-2
...
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14 Nov 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Installation problem
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> #include "use.h"
> { USED int i=foo(); }
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 14 Nov 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, MacOS10.9 strlcpy() problem
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On MacOS 10.9 MIDAS will crashes in strlcpy() somewhere inside odb.c. We think this is because strlcpy()
in MacOS 10.9 was changed to abort() if input and output strings overlap. For overlapping memory one is
supposed to use memmove(). This is fixed in current midas, for older versions, you can try this patch:
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15 Nov 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, stuck data buffers
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We have seen several times a problem with stuck data buffers. The symptoms are very confusing -
frontends cannot start, instead hang forever in a state very hard to kill. Also "mdump -s -d -z
BUF03" for the affected data buffers is stuck.
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20 Nov 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, Too many bm_flush_cache() in mfe.c
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I was looking at something in the mserver and noticed that for remote frontends, for every periodic event,
there are about 3 RPC calls to bm_flush_cache().
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28 Nov 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Audit of fixed size arrays
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In one of the experiments, we hit a long time bug in mdump - there was an array of 32 equipments and if
there were more than 32 entries under /equipment, it would overrun and corrupt memory. Somehow this
only showed up after mdump was switched to c++. The solution was to use std::vector instead of fixed
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16 Dec 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MIDAS on ARM
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I added MIDAS Makefile rules for building ARM binaries: "make linuxarm" and "make cleanarm" will create
(and clean) object files, libraries and executables under "linux-arm" using the TI Sitara ARM SDK or the
Yocto SDK ARM cross-compilers (GCC 4.7.x and 4.8.x respectively). (Makefile rules for building PPC
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16 Dec 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, Abolished SYNC and ASYNC defines
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A few months ago, definitions of SYNC and ASYNC in midas.h have been changed away from "0" and "1",
and this caused problems with some event buffer management functions bm_xxx().
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15 Jan 2014, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, MIDAS password protection is broken
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If you follow the MIDAS documentation for setting up password protection, you will get strange messages:
ladd00:midas$ ./linux/bin/odbedit
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15 Jan 2014, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, MIDAS Web password broken
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The MIDAS Web password function is broken - with the web password enabled, I am not prompted for a
password when editing ODB. The password still partially works - I am prompted for the web password
when starting a run. K.O.
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15 Jan 2014, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, MIDAS password protection is broken
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> I through to improve this by fixing a bug in cm_msg_log() (where the messages are coming from)
The periodic messages about broken semaphore actually come from al_check(). I put some whining there, too.
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15 Jan 2014, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, Fixed spurious symlinks to midas.log
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In some experiments (i.e. DEAP), we see spurious symlinks to midas.log scattered just about everywhere. I
now traced this to an uninitialized variable in cm_msg_log() and it should be fixed now. K.O. |
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16 Jan 2014, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MIDAS and "international characters", UTF-8 and Unicode.
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I made some tests of MIDAS support for "international characters" and we seem to be in a reasonable
shape.
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29 Jan 2014, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, make dox
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The capability to generate doxygen documentation of MIDAS was restored.
Use "make dox" and "make cleandox",
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18 Feb 2014, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Separation of MSCB subtree
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> Since several projects at PSI need MSCB but not MIDAS, I decided to separate the two repositories. So if you
> need MIDAS with MSCB support inside mhttpd, you have to clone MIDAS, MXML and MSCB from bitbucket
> (or the local clone at TRIUMF) as described in
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18 Feb 2014, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Custom page header implemented
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I am not sure what to do with the javascript snippet - I understand it should be somehow connected to /Custom/Header, but if I create the /Custom/Header
string, I cannot put this snippet
into this string using odbedit - if I try to cut&paste it into odbedit, it is truncated to the first line - nor using the mhttpd odb editor - when I cut&paste |