Running CODA

2014-08-27T17:49:14Z

Tsaikevi: /* 2.6.2 */

=Startup CODA's processes=
==2.6.2==

Startup CODA programs in separate xterminal sessions

type the following to setup the CODA environmental variables

source CODA/2.6.2/setup

start up msqld, et_start, rcplatform

coda_eb_rc3 -i -s DAQ -n eb1 -t CDEB

coda_er_rc3 -i -s DAQ -n LDS_ER -t ER

login to the ROC (rocdaq1) and start the process

ssh root@rocdaq1

csh

source CODA/2.6.2/setup

coda_roc_rc3 -t ROC -n rocdaq1

now startup the runcontrol GUI

rcgui

do the following menu calls in rcgui

Configuration->Cool

select "r1dc"

click the Configure button (wrench & screwdriver icon on upper left)

click the download button (floppy disk icon)

click "Prestart" and then "Go" buttons

===error FAQ===

====CODA2 dp communication error====

Restart the process "et_start"

rm /tmp/et_sys_DAQ
et_start

====ERROR: Data not ready in event 12164121 evStored = 0 ====

The above error started happening.

Its not a multiple TDC hit just before a DAQ trigger

The problem was the the TDC sopt pulse was too close to the 25 ns width limit. I increased it to 40 ns and the problem went away.

====Lost connection to the platform====

rcgui killed EB and ER because it "lost connection to the platform".

The above error happens intermittently.

I think this is because the host computers hard disk is failing. Ben has made an image of the current disk which we will transfer, OS and all, to a new disk to see if this error stops.

====Can not find container_admin====

2013/06/12 10:03:01 Component = eb1 Host = daq2.physics.isu.edu registered with the platform.

ControlDesigner ERROR :Can not find container_admin on the node daq2.physics.isu.edu

==2.6.1==
Start the following programs in the order below and in different xterm windows

(need to do: source CODA/setup)

1.)msqld<br>
2.)minicom (telnet roc1)<br>
:cntrl-A P E to setup communication speeds
:reboot to be sure ROC is alive
3.)et_start -v -s 70000 -n 200
: you may need to delete the old memory file /tmp/et_sys_DAQ
:
:error message

~ >et_start
et_netinfo: error in gethostbyaddr
et_udpreceive: bind error
et SEVERE: et_listen_thread: problem opening socket

The above error message happened when I took the DAQ system to the IAC.
The solution is to add the new IP addresss for the DAQ machine to the /etc/hosts file

For example

192.168.40.150 daq1.physics.isu.edu daq1

The following fixed the above message

add the line

10.1.1.1 daq1.physics.isu.edu daq1

to /etc/hosts file

According to Dave Abbott:

In looking at the ET code it seems that the ET system is checking all active network ports on a particular host and it gets a list of valid IP addresses (in your case 10.1.1.1 and 130.50.3.210). However it then attempts to get a hostname associated for each IP address (using gethostbyaddr). In your case 130.50.3.210 returns "daq1" but 10.1.1.1 returns <null> hence the error. In principle the hostname is not required for anything in particular, but the ET system does not start up because of this.

4.)rcServer

5.) coda_eb -i -s DAQ -n eb1 -t CDEB

6.)coda_er -i -s DAQ -n LDS_ER -t ROC

7.) runcontrol

= Select run configuration=
== Creating run Configurations==
The following describes how to make a run configuration file

;use cedit to save a configuration to the data base (best to copy an old configuration)

Then

1.) lauch dbedit application

>dbedit

2.) select "localhost"

3.)click on "localhost" tab

4.) select "LDS" data base

5.) now start copying other tables into a new tabl

a.) SIS3610 copy to table SIS3610gem
b.) SIS3610_option copy to table SIS3610gem_option
c.) SIS3610_pos copy to table SIS3610gem_pos

6.) go to new copy and change location of executable code to a new directory (row 1 column "code")

The tables won't reload if you jsut stop runcontro. restarting the msql server didn't work

how to get the new runconfiguration to show up in runcontrol?

Th library for the ADC needs to be downlaoded by hand into the ROC. On the ROC terminal window type

ld < v792Lib.o

= Download configuration to ROC=

#Click COnfigure in the Runcontrol GUI
#select V775_TDC from the pull down menu
#click the download button in the runcontrol GUI

<pre>
You should see message appears on several of the open windows.
You should see information in the ROC window. If you see error
messages check that you loaded the libraries with the commands

-> ld <v792Lib.o
-> ld < v775Lib.o
</pre>

= Prestart=

Clicking the "Prestart" button in the GUI will begin initializing modules for the run

You should not see any error messages in the terminal windows.

=Run=

Click "Go" in the runcontrol GUI will start a data acquisition

= debug FAQ=

==Using local network card==

I decided to connect the ROC directly to the second 1 Gigabit ethernet card on the host in order to avoid setting up a firewall which makes our sys admin guys happy and allows CODA to work.

I had to tell the ROC to alias the new host names in the boot script

so in the file CODA/bootscripts/roc1.boot

I added the line

hostAdd "daq1","10.1.1.1"

You can do this on the roc as well and then on the ROC you can check the lookup tables using the command

-> hostShow
hostname inet address aliases
-------- ------------ -------
localhost 127.0.0.1
roc1 10.1.1.2
localdaq 10.1.1.1 daq1
value = 0 = 0x0

== Incorrect number Argument when downloading ==

daLogMsg: Downloading configuration "SIS3610"
Incorrect number of Arguments passed for ROL = 1
daLogMsg: Incorrect number of Arguments passed for ROL = 1

I had incorrectly connected my EB to my ER system

== ROC won't load VxWorks Kernel ==

If you have anout output to stdout from a .cshrc or .tcshrc login script then the ROC will have trouble loading the kernel.

I ran into this one when I deciced to "source CODA/setup" in order to define my CODA environmental variables when I log in. The setup script did a "echo" and this caused the ROC to stop loading the kernel. When I was watching via minicom all I saw was the word "Loading...".

== coda_eb constructor faile ==

~ >coda_eb -i -s DAQ -n eb1 -t CDEB
constructor failed : Couldn't setup listening socket on any port: Cannot assign requested addressNS_ServerInit (dp_MakeRPCServererror : Couldn't setup listening socket on any port: Cannot assign requested address )
Segmentation fault

coda_eb couldn't resolve the name server address

change /etc/hosts file so it has the right IP number for daq1.

== et_start Segmentation fault==

Solution: Try removing the file /tmp/et_sys_DAQ.

==et_start: problem opening socket==
~ >et_start -v -s 70000 -n 200
et_start: asking for 70000 byte events.
et_start: asking for 200 events.
et_netinfo: error in gethostbyaddr
et_start: starting ET system /tmp/et_sys_DAQ
et_udpreceive: bind error
et SEVERE: et_listen_thread: problem opening socket

==Cannot open broadcast Handle==

==Download run failed (UDP?) ===

<pre>
Attached TCP/IP interface to geisc0.
Warning: no netmask specified.
Attaching network interface lo0... done.
Loading...
Error loading file: errno = 0x3c.
Can't load boot file!!
</pre>

The above was because the computer name was not correct

changed

host name : localdaq

to

host name : daq1

now

<pre>
-> hostShow
hostname inet address aliases
-------- ------------ -------
localhost 127.0.0.1
roc1 10.1.1.2
daq1 10.1.1.1 daq1.physics.isu.edu
value = 0 = 0x0

</pre>
-> roc1 create UDP socket
rc UDP host is daq1.physics.isu.edu port is 2052

== Turn off Firewall==

As super users execute:

/sbin/service iptables stop

== Setting up IAC network==

as root run the script

/root/IAC_network.sh

=== Connecting to ROC failed===

I moved DAQ1 to the IAC. I had to run DHCP for now. I think this changed the /etc/hosts file.

I edited the /etc/hosts file to be

<pre>
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 daq1.physics.isu.edu daq1 localhost.localdomain localhos
t
10.1.1.1 daq1.physics.isu.edu daq1
10.1.1.2 roc1.physics.isu.edu roc1
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
<pre>

I can telnet to roc1 by name from daq1.

Runcontrol fails to find the ROC when downloadins SIS3610

<pre>
Connecting to roc1 on host roc1
daLogMsg: Connecting to roc1 on host roc1
boot failed !!!
daLogMsg: boot failed !!!
ROC subsystem Boot failed
</pre>

[http://wiki.iac.isu.edu/index.php/Data_Acquisition Back to DAQ] [[Data_Acquisition]]

== ET bind error==

et_udpreceive: bind error
et SEVERE: et_listen_thread: problem opening socket

==Undefined symbol: GEN_ACK (binding 1 type 0)==

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