Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

I am writing a driver for a camera we have developed.  Part of the scheme involves monitoring a PV at about 20 Hz to check for a trigger.  I get this message on trying to read the PV.  I tried an initial read in the main thread to capture the problem before too much else was started.

 

A call to 'assert(dbLockIsInitialized)'

    by thread '_main_' failed in ../../../src/ioc/db/dbLock.c line 246.

Dumping a stack trace of thread '_main_':

[    0x7fcec9b5334b]: /home/iainm/local/opt/epics/base/lib/linux-x86_64/libCom.so.3.15.4(epicsStackTrace+0x4b)

[    0x7fcec9b4c8ca]: /home/iainm/local/opt/epics/base/lib/linux-x86_64/libCom.so.3.15.4(epicsAssert+0x4a)

[    0x7fcec9d9cdb2]: /home/iainm/local/opt/epics/base/lib/linux-x86_64/libdbCore.so.3.15.4(dbScanLock+0x1f2)

[    0x7fcec9d9f45c]: /home/iainm/local/opt/epics/base/lib/linux-x86_64/libdbCore.so.3.15.4(dbGetField+0x2c)

[          0x40dbef]: ../../bin/linux-x86_64/HPE3631Atest(_ZN10SpectroCCDC2EPKcS1_imiiS1_+0x74f)

[          0x40de82]: ../../bin/linux-x86_64/HPE3631Atest(_ZL14configCallFuncPK11iocshArgBuf+0x62)

[    0x7fcec9b3efb0]: /home/iainm/local/opt/epics/base/lib/linux-x86_64/libCom.so.3.15.4(iocshBody+0xae0)

[          0x40c3b2]: ../../bin/linux-x86_64/HPE3631Atest(main+0x12)

[    0x7fcec9249f45]: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)

[          0x40c3fd]: ../../bin/linux-x86_64/HPE3631Atest(_start+0x29)

EPICS Release EPICS R3.15.4 $Date: Fri 2016-05-27 08:54:04 +0200$.

Local time is 2019-04-25 13:01:39.451503845 PDT

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The record in question is

 

record(longin, "$(P)$(R)Cmd_GET_HW_TRIG_DR0")

{

}

 

And the reading code is

 

pv_opts = 0;

pv_nreq = 1;

dbGetField(&hw_trigger_addr_, DBR_LONG, &pv_val,

                     &pv_opts, &pv_nreq, NULL);

 

pv_val, pv_opts, and pv_nreq are of type long, as in other parts of the code that work.

 

What might I do or look up to solve this problem?

 

Thank you,

 

Iain.