Re: Download vxWorks to IOC

[Bill Lavender <lavender@icarus.csrri.iit.edu>]

> At 09:12 AM 10/27/00 +0800, chengwx wrote:
> >Hello everyone,  I have make the epics base and medm. and make the epics
> >application on my Redhat6.2.
> >But when download the vxWorks, it comes the errors like this :
> >
> >[VxWorks Boot]: @
> >
> ...
> >Loading... 413736 + 43300 + 35280                 /* the ioc stopped
> >here, no moving  at all*/
> 
> I had a similar problem when loading from RedHat 6.2.
> The problem was in wuftpd.
> In fact we use almost the same ftpd on solaris and there the problem
> didn't appear, so I don't understand it fully, but these were symptons
> and the solution:

I have run into this problem on Debian Linux too, but have come up with
a different solution, which is to use a different FTP daemon.  Debian
has installable packages for three different FTP daemons, namely, the
WU-ftpd, ProFTPD, and a port of the OpenBSD FTP daemon.  If you use
either the OpenBSD daemon or ProFTPD, the VME crate boots just fine.
However, if you use WU-ftpd, the boot of the VME crate becomes glacially
slow.  In fact, it is so slow that usually the VxWorks boot code times
out before the boot completes.  Thus, I would recommend that you try a
different FTP daemon and see if that works better.

Bill Lavender
lavender@icarus.csrri.iit.edu