RE: Problems getting PI motors working

[Mark Rivers <rivers@cars.uchicago.edu>]

That error about the int32 interface not being found is familiar.  It is usually a problem with the database file, where the wrong asyn port name is used in the motor record INP link.  It should be the port for the asynMotorController driver, i.e. PIE873_1 or PIE873_1 in your case.  But perhaps instead you have used the name of the underlying TCP port, i.e. pie873A or pie873B in your case?

 

Mark

 

 

From: Eric Norum [mailto:eric@norum.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 12:48 PM
To: Mark Rivers; EPICS mailing list
Subject: Problems getting PI motors working

 

I have to admit that I find the EPICS motor record and associated drivers pretty much a black art.  I’m trying to get some PI motors running but I’m getting error messages and subsequent core dumps.  Below is the IOC startup and application Makefile.  The PI_GCS2_CreateController call seems to work fine, but then at record initialization time I get a report that the int32 interface can’t be found and then later on I get a core dump when some NULL pointers get dereferenced.   I suspect that I’m missing some ‘.dbd’ file in my application Makefile, but I don’t know how to figure out what.

Suggestions eagerly welcomed.

 

 

#!../../bin/linux-x86_64/piMotor

< envPaths

epicsEnvSet("ARCH","linux-x86_64")

epicsEnvSet("IOC","iocpiMotor")

epicsEnvSet("TOP","/home/als1/acct/enorum/tmp/piMotor")

epicsEnvSet("ASYN","/usr/local/epics/R3.14.12/modules/R3/soft/synApps_5_8/support/asyn4-28")

epicsEnvSet("MOTOR","/usr/local/epics/R3.14.12/modules/R3/soft/motor/motorR6-9")

epicsEnvSet("EPICS_BASE","/usr/local/epics/R3.14.12/base")

epicsEnvSet("IOC_INFO","/iocinfo")

## Register all support components

cd "/home/als1/acct/enorum/tmp/piMotor"

dbLoadDatabase "dbd/piMotor.dbd"

piMotor_registerRecordDeviceDriver pdbbase

#############################################################################

# PI piezzo motors

drvAsynIPPortConfigure("pie873A","131.243.201.111:50000", 0, 0, 0)

asynOctetSetInputEos("pie873A",0,"\n")

asynOctetSetOutputEos("pie873A",0,"\n")

asynSetTraceMask("pie873A", 0, 1)

asynSetTraceIOMask("pie873A", 0, 1)

# PI_GCS2_CreateController(

#  port name,

#  asyn port name,

#  num axes,

#  priority,

#  stackSize,

#  moving poll period (ms),

#  idle poll period (ms) )

PI_GCS2_CreateController("PIE873_1", "pie873A", 1, 0, 0, 200, 1000)

2017/10/24 10:41:44.931 read from pie873A: (c)2016 Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG, E-873.1A1, 117011563, 02.012

PIasynAxis::PIasynAxis() 0: 1

drvAsynIPPortConfigure("pie873B","131.243.201.112:50000", 0, 0, 0)

asynOctetSetInputEos("pie873B",0,"\n")

asynOctetSetOutputEos("pie873B",0,"\n")

asynSetTraceMask("pie873B", 0, 1)

asynSetTraceIOMask("pie873B", 0, 1)

# PI_GCS2_CreateController(

#  port name,

#  asyn port name,

#  num axes,

#  priority,

#  stackSize,

#  moving poll period (ms),

#  idle poll period (ms) )

PI_GCS2_CreateController("PIE873_1", "pie873B", 1, 0, 0, 200, 1000)

2017/10/24 10:41:45.029 read from pie873B: (c)2016 Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG, E-873.1A1, 117011567, 02.012

PIasynAxis::PIasynAxis() 0: 1

dbLoadRecords("db/PI_motor.db")

#############################################################################

# Start EPICS

cd /home/als1/acct/enorum/tmp/piMotor/iocBoot/iocpiMotor

iocInit

Starting iocInit

############################################################################

## EPICS R3.14.12.1 $Date: Tue 2011-04-26 15:36:19 -0500$

## EPICS Base built Sep  3 2013

############################################################################

2017/10/24 10:41:45.110 devMotorAsyn::init_record, PIE873:m1 find int32 interface failed

2017/10/24 10:41:45.110 devMotorAsyn::init_record, PIE873:m2 find int32 interface failed

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

 

 

 

And here’s my application Makefile:

TOP=../..

 

include $(TOP)/configure/CONFIG

#----------------------------------------

#  ADD MACRO DEFINITIONS AFTER THIS LINE

#=============================

 

#=============================

# Build the IOC application

 

PROD_IOC = piMotor

# piMotor.dbd will be created and installed

DBD += piMotor.dbd

 

# piMotor.dbd will be made up from these files:

piMotor_DBD += base.dbd

 

# Include dbd files from all support applications:

piMotor_DBD += asyn.dbd

piMotor_DBD += drvAsynIPPort.dbd

piMotor_DBD += motorSupport.dbd

piMotor_DBD += motorSimSupport.dbd

piMotor_DBD += PI_GCS2Support.dbd

 

# Add all the support libraries needed by this IOC

piMotor_LIBS += asyn

piMotor_LIBS += motor

piMotor_LIBS += motorSimSupport

piMotor_LIBS += PI_GCS2Support

 

# piMotor_registerRecordDeviceDriver.cpp derives from piMotor.dbd

piMotor_SRCS += piMotor_registerRecordDeviceDriver.cpp

 

# Build the main IOC entry point on workstation OSs.

piMotor_SRCS_DEFAULT += piMotorMain.cpp

piMotor_SRCS_vxWorks += -nil-

 

# Add support from base/src/vxWorks if needed

#piMotor_OBJS_vxWorks += $(EPICS_BASE_BIN)/vxComLibrary

 

# Finally link to the EPICS Base libraries

piMotor_LIBS += $(EPICS_BASE_IOC_LIBS)

 

#===========================

 

include $(TOP)/configure/RULES

#----------------------------------------

#  ADD RULES AFTER THIS LINE

-- 
Eric Norum
eric@norum.ca