Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi Michael,

 

1) You said this:

And this is the exports file-entry for my autosave folder:

/autosave          172.17.8.0/24(rw,no_subtree_check) 192.168.99.0/24(rw,no_subtree_check)

 

Have you really created a folder “autosave” under the root directory “/”?

Or you actually created “autosave” under /soft/epics/IOC/iocRtems/? If so, you need to do this in your NFS exports file-entry:

/soft/epics/IOC/iocRtems                  172.17.8.0/24(rw,no_subtree_check) 192.168.99.0/24(rw,no_subtree_check)

 

And you need to change the autosave-related-path in your st.cmd accordingly:

set_savefile_path("/soft/epics/IOC/iocRtems/autosave")

set_requestfile_path("/soft/epics/IOC/iocRtems/autosave")

save_restoreSet_NFSHost("nfsioc","192.168.99.1")

 

Basically, on your NFS server, you need to create a directory “autosave” and make sure it is writable: mkdir -p autosave; chmod 777 -R autosave;

 

2) I do not see how the autosave request files (auto_positions.req, auto_settings.req) are provided/generated. If you are using “info” in your .db, you should use something like below in your st.cmd to automatically generate those request files:

makeAutosaveFileFromDbInfo("/soft/epics/IOC/iocRtems/autosave/auto_positions.req ", "autosaveFields_pass0")

makeAutosaveFileFromDbInfo("/soft/epics/IOC/iocRtems/autosave/auto_ settings.req ", "autosaveFields_pass0")

makeAutosaveFileFromDbInfo("/soft/epics/IOC/iocRtems/autosave/auto_ settings.req ", "autosaveFields_pass1")

 

Good luck!

Yong Hu

NSLS-II Controls Group

 

Hi all,

 

I’m setting up an IOC, BASE-3.15.7 and autosave 5-10-1, on an Motorola board MVME-2100 using RTEMS-4.10.2.

The comand save_restoreSet_NFSHost fails on it with mount failed: Invalid argument . But my IOC is using nfs to mount it’s “st.cmd” file, so I don’t know why it is not seeing the autosave folder, that is also exported via NFS.

 

Here is my IOC Start-up:

 

Copyright Motorola Inc. 1988 - 2004, All Rights Reserved

 

PPC5 Debugger/Diagnostics Release Version 1.1 - 08/20/2004 RM04

COLD Start

 

Local Memory Found =02000000 (&33554432)

 

MPU Clock Speed =200Mhz

 

BUS Clock Speed =67Mhz

 

Reset Vector Location  : ROM Bank B

Mezzanine Configuration: Single-MPU

Current 60X-Bus Master : MPU0

Idle MPU(s)            : NONE

 

L2Cache:       NONE

System Memory: 32MB, Parity NOT Enabled (Non-Parity-Memory Detected)

 

 

SelfTest/Boots about to Begin... Press <BREAK> at anytime to Abort ALL

 

NetBoot about to Begin... Press <ESC> to Bypass, <SPC> to Continue

 

Network Booting from: DEC21143, Controller 0, Device 0

Device Name: /pci@fec00000/pci1011,19@e,0:0,0

Loading: epics/iocRtems/iocRtems.boot

 

Client IP Address      = 192.168.99.250

Server IP Address      = 192.168.99.1

Gateway IP Address     = 0.0.0.0

Subnet IP Address Mask = 255.255.255.0

Boot File Name         = epics/iocRtems/iocRtems.boot

Argument File Name     = /soft/epics/IOC/iocRtems/iocBoot/iocRtems/st.cmd

 

Network Boot File load in progress... To abort hit <BREAK>

 

Bytes Received =&1183560, Bytes Loaded =&1183560

Bytes/Second   =&591780, Elapsed Time =2 Second(s)

 

Residual-Data Located at: $01F5511C

 

Model: Motorola MVME2101          (e2)

Serial: MOT0BC614E 

Processor/Bus frequencies (Hz): 200003328/66667776

Time Base Divisor: 4000

Memory Size: 2000000

 

PCI: Probing PCI hardware

 

RTEMS 4.x/PPC load:

Uncompressing the kernel...

done

Now booting...

-----------------------------------------

Welcome to rtems-4.10.2(PowerPC/Generic (classic FPU)/mvme2100) on MVME 2100

-----------------------------------------

pci : Configuring interrupt routing for 'MVME 2100'

pci : Device 0:0x00:0 routed to interrupt_line 16

pci : Device 0:0x0D:0 routed to interrupt_line 23

pci : Device 0:0x0E:0 routed to interrupt_line 17

WARNING: unable to allocate page table, keeping DBAT0

WARNING: unable to setup page tables VME bridge must share PCI space

OpenPIC Version 1.2 (1 CPUs and 24 IRQ sources) at 0xFCE40000

OpenPIC Vendor 0 (Unknown), Device 0 (Unknown), Stepping 1

Overriding NumSources (24) from configuration with 16

OpenPIC timer frequency is 8333472 Hz

Universe II PCI-VME bridge detected at 0xFCDFF000, IRQ 23

Universe Master Ports:

Port  VME-Addr   Size       PCI-Adrs   Mode:

0:    0x20000000 0x0E000000 0x90000000 A32, D64 [MBLT], Dat, Sup

1:    0x00000000 0x00FF0000 0x9F000000 A24, D64 [MBLT], Dat, Sup

2:    0x00000000 0x00010000 0x9FFF0000 A16, D64, Dat, Sup

Universe Slave Ports:

Port  VME-Addr   Size       PCI-Adrs   Mode:

0:    0xC0000000 0x02000000 0x00000000 A32, Pgm, Dat, Sup, Usr, PWEN, PREN

Registering /dev/console as minor 0 (==/dev/ttyS0)

 

***** RTEMS Version: rtems-4.10.2(PowerPC/Generic (classic FPU)/mvme2100) *****

Startup.

 

***** Initializing network *****

dec2114x : unit 1 base address FCDFEC00.

dec2114x : driver attached

dec2114x : driver tasks created

dec2114x : 00:01:AF:15:AD:97   name 'dc1', io BFDF80, mem FCDFEC00, int 17

dec2114x: Installing IRQ 17

***** Initializing NFS *****

Mount 192.168.99.1:/soft on /soft

RTEMS-RPCIOD $Release$, Till Straumann, Stanford/SLAC/SSRL 2002, See LICENSE file for licensing info.

RTEMS-NFS $Release$, Till Straumann, Stanford/SLAC/SSRL 2002, See LICENSE file for licensing info.

Warning: No timezone information, times will be displayed in UTC.

***** Starting EPICS application *****

## Example RTEMS startup script

## You may have to change iocRtems to something else

## everywhere it appears in this file

< envPaths

epicsEnvSet("IOC","iocRtems")

epicsEnvSet("TOP","/soft/epics/IOC/iocRtems")

epicsEnvSet("MODULES","/soft/epics/inst-3.15.7")

epicsEnvSet("ASYN","/soft/epics/inst-3.15.7/asyn/4-40-1")

epicsEnvSet("MOTOR","/soft/epics/inst-3.15.7/motor/7-2-1")

epicsEnvSet("PSEUDOMOTAPPS","/soft/epics/inst-3.15.7/pseudoMotors/1-1")

epicsEnvSet("SEQLONG","/soft/epics/inst-3.15.7/seqlong-1-0")

epicsEnvSet("SSCAN","/soft/epics/inst-3.15.7/sscan/2-11-3")

epicsEnvSet("CALC","/soft/epics/inst-3.15.7/calc/3-7-4")

epicsEnvSet("AUTOSAVE","/soft/epics/inst-3.15.7/autosave/5-10-1")

epicsEnvSet("IK342","/soft/epics/inst-3.15.7/IK342")

epicsEnvSet("EPICS_BASE","/soft/epics/base")

cd "/soft/epics/IOC/iocRtems"

## Register all support components

dbLoadDatabase("dbd/iocRtems.dbd")

iocRtems_registerRecordDeviceDriver(pdbbase)

## Load record instances

#dbLoadTemplate("db/iocRtems.substitutions")

dbLoadRecords("db/iocRtems.db", "user=bl")

#var drvOms58debug 10

oms58Setup(11, 0x1000,180,5,2)

IK342Setup(1,0xC000)

set_savefile_path("/autosave/iocRtems")

set_requestfile_path("/autosave/iocRtems")

save_restoreSet_NFSHost("nfsioc","192.168.99.1")

Mount nfsioc:/autosave/iocRtems on /autosave/iocRtems

mount failed: Invalid argument

save_restore: Can't mount '/autosave/iocRtems'

set_pass0_restoreFile("auto_positions.sav")

set_pass0_restoreFile("auto_settings.sav")

#set_pass0_restoreFile("pseudoMotor.sav")

set_pass1_restoreFile("auto_settings.sav")

#set_pass1_restoreFile("detectors.sav")

save_restoreSet_status_prefix("iocRtems:")

save_restoreSet_DatedBackupFiles(1)

save_restoreSet_NumSeqFiles(1)

# Time interval between sequenced backups

save_restoreSet_SeqPeriodInSeconds(600)

iocInit

Starting iocInit

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

## EPICS R3.15.7

## EPICS Base built Sep  1 2020

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

*** IK342:  Running IK342 Initialization IK342_drv_init ***

 1 nIK342Cards, 0xc000. baseAddr

libbspExt - Warning: it seems that MCP support is not available on your CPU

                     or not implemented by your board. Address probing must

                     be performed in polling mode with interrupts disabled

../drvIK342.c: card 0 present at addr 9FFFC000

version  FF00

reboot_restore: entry for file 'auto_positions.sav'

reboot_restore: Found filename 'auto_positions.sav' in restoreFileList.

*** restoring from '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_positions.sav' at initHookState 6 (before record/device init) ***

save_restore: Can't open file '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_positions.sav'.

save_restore: Trying backup file '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_positions.savB'

save_restore: Can't open file '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_positions.savB'.

save_restore: Can't figure out which seq file is most recent,

save_restore: so I'm just going to start with '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_positions.sav0'.

save_restore: Trying backup file '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_positions.sav0'

save_restore: Can't open file '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_positions.sav0'.

save_restore: Can't find a file to restore from...save_restore: ...last tried '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_positions.sav0'. I give up.

save_restore: **********************************

 

save_restore: Can't open save file.reboot_restore: entry for file 'auto_settings.sav'

reboot_restore: Found filename 'auto_settings.sav' in restoreFileList.

*** restoring from '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_settings.sav' at initHookState 6 (before record/device init) ***

save_restore: Can't open file '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_settings.sav'.

save_restore: Trying backup file '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_settings.savB'

save_restore: Can't open file '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_settings.savB'.

save_restore: Can't figure out which seq file is most recent,

save_restore: so I'm just going to start with '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_settings.sav0'.

save_restore: Trying backup file '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_settings.sav0'

save_restore: Can't open file '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_settings.sav0'.

save_restore: Can't find a file to restore from...save_restore: ...last tried '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_settings.sav0'. I give up.

save_restore: **********************************

 

save_restore: Can't open save file.init_record: card = 0   channel = 0

init_record: card = 0   channel = 1

init_record: card = 0   channel = 2

init_record: card = 0   channel = 3

reboot_restore: entry for file 'auto_settings.sav'

reboot_restore: Found filename 'auto_settings.sav' in restoreFileList.

*** restoring from '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_settings.sav' at initHookState 7 (after record/device init) ***

save_restore: Can't open file '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_settings.sav'.

save_restore: Trying backup file '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_settings.savB'

save_restore: Can't open file '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_settings.savB'.

save_restore: Can't figure out which seq file is most recent,

save_restore: so I'm just going to start with '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_settings.sav0'.

save_restore: Trying backup file '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_settings.sav0'

save_restore: Can't open file '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_settings.sav0'.

save_restore: Can't find a file to restore from...save_restore: ...last tried '/autosave/iocRtems/auto_settings.sav0'. I give up.

save_restore: **********************************

 

save_restore: Can't open save file.iocRun: All initialization complete

epicsThreadSleep(10.)

create_monitor_set("auto_positions.req", 5, "NULL")

save_restore:readReqFile: unable to open file auto_positions.req. Exiting.

Mount nfsioc:/autosave/iocRtems on /autosave/iocRtems

create_monitor_set("auto_settings.req", 5, "NULL")

mount failedsave_restore:readReqFile: unable to open file auto_settings.req. Exiting.

: #create_monitor_set("pseudoMotor.req",5, "NULL")

Invalid argument#create_monitor_set("detectors.req",5, "NULL")

 

#fdbrestore("DMMarm.sav")

save_restore: Can't mount '/autosave/iocRtems'

## Start any sequence programs

#seq(sncxxx, "user=bl")

192.168.99.250> save_restore: Can't connect to all status PV(s)

save_restore: attempting to remount filesystem

Mount nfsioc:/autosave/iocRtems on /autosave/iocRtems

mount failed: Invalid argument

save_restore: failed to remount '/autosave/iocRtems'

 

192.168.99.250>192.168.99.250>

 

 

This is how my dhcpd.conf for the MVME-2100 looks like (it is OpenSuse Leap 15.1):

 

   group {

    use-host-decl-names on;

    always-reply-rfc1048 on;

    server-name bam01;

    host vmecpu-20 {

      option host-name iocRtems;

      option script-name "/soft/epics/IOC/iocRtems/iocBoot/iocRtems/st.cmd";

      hardware ethernet 00:01:af:15:ad:97;

      fixed-address 192.168.99.250;

      filename "epics/iocRtems/iocRtems.boot";

      next-server 192.168.99.1;

    }

 

And this is the exports file-entry for my autosave folder:

/autosave          172.17.8.0/24(rw,no_subtree_check) 192.168.99.0/24(rw,no_subtree_check)

 

The command save_restoreSet_NFSHost("nfsioc","192.168.99.1") is using the CNAME-Record “nfsioc” which is just an alias for my NFS-Server.

If I set it to the real name of my NFS-Server (“bam01”), it results in the same error: mount failed: Invalid argument

 

So what argument am I missing? Does anyone know?

 

Regards

Michael

 

Michael Sintschuk
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