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"Jeff Hill" <[email protected]> · Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:51:30 -0600

Hello Emma,

I created Mantis 299 to track this issue. It's difficult at this point to
isolate to a subsystem. The assert fail in dbCa.c initially points to a
logic error in the db ca link code, or alternatively a race condition -
possibly a data structure that is being used after it was deleted.
Alternatively, this might be generalized corruption, or a failure in another
subsystem (possibly the CA client library). I am not intimately familiar
with the dbCa.c code so this may require some time spent looking at the
sources.

Have you seen this occur more than once? 

If the problem is repeatable, is it possible to reproduce it with a small
database along with a well defined recipe of external circumstances? If the
problem is repeatable, but not with a small database, you might also obtain
further details (a stack trace with arguments and possibly the contents of
related data structures) by building base for debugging and then attaching
to the crashed thread using the Tornado debugger.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Shepherd, EL (Emma)
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 10:09 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: CAC-TCP-recv suspended

Hi all,

I have come across a problem on an R3.14.8.2 IOC that is affecting
channel access links - some records are in LINK ERROR and others have CP
links that fail to update.  When we started investigating we found that
the CAC-TCP-recv task was in SUSPEND+I state, and the following messages
had been printed to the console:

BL18I-MO-IOC-01.diamond.ac.uk:1 Wed Aug 15 16:37:26 2007 CAC-TCP-recv: A
call to "assert (pca->pgetNative)" failed in ../dbCa.c at 629
BL18I-MO-IOC-01.diamond.ac.uk:1 Wed Aug 15 16:37:26 2007 Current time
WED AUG 15 2007 15:37:23.708349950.
BL18I-MO-IOC-01.diamond.ac.uk:1 Wed Aug 15 16:37:26 2007 EPICS Release
EPICS R3.14.8.2 $R3-14-8-2$ $2006/01/06 15:55:13$.
BL18I-MO-IOC-01.diamond.ac.uk:1 Wed Aug 15 16:37:26 2007 Please E-mail
this message and the output from "tt (0x1e0ff9e0)"
BL18I-MO-IOC-01.diamond.ac.uk:1 Wed Aug 15 16:37:26 2007 to the author
or to [email protected]

Here is the task trace:

BL18I-MO-IOC-01 -> tt 0x1e0ff9e0
231ff8 vxTaskEntry    +68 : 1e8cb6e4 ()
1e8cb754 epicsThreadPrivateGet+f8 : epicsThreadCallEntryPoint ()
1e8bd048 epicsThreadCallEntryPoint+15c: 1e88b718 (1)
1e88b718 tcpRecvThread::run(void)+990: 1e88e78c ()
1e88e78c tcpiiu::processIncoming(epicsTime const &, callbackManager
&)+408: cac::executeResponse(callbackManager &, tcpiiu &, epicsTime
const &, caHdrLargeArray &, char *) ()
1e87a588 cac::executeResponse(callbackManager &, tcpiiu &, epicsTime
const &, caHdrLargeArray &, char *)+bc : cac
::eventRespAction(callbackManager &, tcpiiu &, epicsTime const &,
caHdrLargeArray const &, void *) ()
1e875fc8 cac::eventRespAction(callbackManager &, tcpiiu &, epicsTime
const &, caHdrLargeArray const &, void *)+19 4:
netSubscription::completion(epicsGuard<epicsMutex> &, cacRecycle &,
unsigned int, unsigned long, void const *)  ()
1e89a364 netSubscription::completion(epicsGuard<epicsMutex> &,
cacRecycle &, unsigned int, unsigned long, void co nst *)+84 :
oldSubscription::current(epicsGuard<epicsMutex> &, unsigned int,
unsigned long, void const *) ()
1e855ff4 oldSubscription::current(epicsGuard<epicsMutex> &, unsigned
int, unsigned long, void const *)+104: 1e815 434 ()
1e8156d0 dbCaGetUnits   +790: epicsAssert ()
1e8c9a5c epicsAssert    +154: epicsThreadSuspendSelf ()
1e8cb010 epicsThreadSuspendSelf+2c : taskSuspend ()
value = 0 = 0x0

Any ideas what could have caused this?

Emma
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