Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

From: Wlodek, Jakub <jwlodek at bnl.gov>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2020 11:35 AM
To: Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver at gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>; tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
Subject: Re: CAS-client thread issues in areaDetector IOC

On 1/27/20 7:45 AM, Wlodek, Jakub wrote:
> ...
> In addition, the following tests showed some error message, but were seemingly re-run successfully:

We have some tests which intentionally provoke error to ensure that
they can be handled correctly.  Unless you see any "fail" instead of "ok",
then the tests are passing and we'll have to look elsewhere.



> iocshTest.t ................... 1/19 Command no_such_command not found.
> iocsh Error: Break
> Can't open no_such_file.cmd: No such file or directory
> .
> .
> .
> iocshTest.t ................... ok 
>
> chfPluginTest.t ............ 1/1433 chfConfigParseStart: plugin pvt alloc failed
> chfPluginTest.t ............ ok       
>
> netget.t ................ 1/3 **** The executable "caRepeater" couldn't be located
> **** because of errno = "No such file or directory".
> **** You may need to modify your PATH environment variable.
> **** Unable to start "CA Repeater" process.
> netget.t ................ ok  
>
> There were also several tests that listed json parsing errors.
>
> Regards,
> Jakub
>
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> *From:* Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, January 24, 2020 4:52 PM
> *To:* Wlodek, Jakub <jwlodek at bnl.gov>
> *Cc:* Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>; tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
> *Subject:* Re: CAS-client thread issues in areaDetector IOC
>  
> On 1/24/20 10:15 AM, Mark Rivers wrote:
>> Ø  Could it be that there is a problem with something in the newest release of epics-base?
> ...
>> You are running 7.0.3 now.  If you go back to 7.0.3.1 does the problem re-appear?
>
> If the assert() failure does re-appear, could you run the base unittests and report any which don't pass?
>
>> make runtests