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Jeong Han Lee via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Fri, 18 Dec 2020 17:51:39 -0800

Hi Matt,

Thank you for your quick response. Yes, this is a bit awkward since I
also didn't see the scalcout record in the template.

@Juliane,

Please check Matt's repository instead of mine.

Best,
Han

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 8:43 AM Pearson, Matthew R. <pearsonmr at ornl.gov> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've updated the example IOC so it actually works now (by including busy support). Although I don't have any hardware to test with, it at least builds and starts up ok. I had been updating the lakeshore template files over the years, and not updating the example IOC.
>
> We haven't been building streamDevice with scalcout support. It looks like you need to include that support in the IOC if you do. The lakeshore templates don't use scalcout (although I do have an updated version that does, not on github yet).
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Jeong Han
> > Lee via Tech-talk
> > Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 3:06 AM
> > To: Juliane Reinhardt <jreinhardt at lbl.gov>
> > Cc: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
> > Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: lakeshore336 msi: Can't open file 'ioc_sns.db'
> >
> > Hi Juliane,
> > Please look at my forked version. Somehow, the calc record is missing, since
> > my streamDevice was compiled with a calc record. I guess your stream device
> > may be compiled with a calc record also.
> >
> > https://github.com/jeonghanlee/lakeshore
> >
> > I modified its makefile also, but this work is really quick-and-dirty.
> > I may have more mistakes.
> > There is another startup script you may see, it is more clean output, because
> > I remove autosave.
> >
> > I am sure that SNS will solve this problem more fundamentally soon.
> > Until then, you may try to see how it works.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Han
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 11:14 PM Juliane Reinhardt <jreinhardt at lbl.gov>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Han,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the prompt reply. The repository is here:
> > > https://github.com/mp49/lakeshore
> > > Yes I saw these error but then when I looked into the dbd or db files
> > > I could not see what the actual issue was.
> > >
> > > Juliane
> > >
> > > On 12/17/20 23:11, Jeong Han Lee wrote:
> > > > Hi Juliane,
> > > >
> > > > Your DBD file, example.dbd is wrong. So you have a lot of error
> > > > message in your IOC startup. Please see below "snip snip section"
> > > > Since I can get the code of this repository if this is public, could
> > > > you point me where your repository is?  I cc this email to my lab
> > > > account.
> > > > And ALS also has the similar db file, which you may get more benefit
> > > > from your IOC also.
> > > >
> > > > Han
> > > >
> > > > --- snip snip ---
> > > > dbLoadDatabase "dbd/example.dbd"\
> > > > Declaration of recordtype(scalcout) preceeded full definition.\
> > > > Error at or before "\}" in file "dbd/example.dbd" line 10293\
> > > >
> > > > --- snip snip ---
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 9:53 PM Juliane Reinhardt <jreinhardt at lbl.gov>
> > wrote:
> > > >> Hi everyone,
> > > >>
> > > >> Thanks for your help to build the IOC.
> > > >> I pulled the latest version with the sns specific template removed
> > > >> and rebuilt the application after modifying the configure/RELEASE
> > > >> file. That worked fine. However, when starting the IOC I get
> > > >> multiple errors. I searched for solutions but wasn't successful
> > > >> yet. I would appreciate if you could point me to some solution as I
> > > >> am still relatively new to EPICS and with every IOC installation I
> > > >> learn more but only after running into quite some issues. I attached the
> > output of the ioc startup.
> > > >>
> > > >> Best,
> > > >> Juliane
> > > >>
> > > >> On 12/15/20 07:27, Pearson, Matthew R. wrote:
> > > >>> Hi,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Sorry about that. Steve is right, it's just a SNS specific template that
> > shouldn't have been in the example IOC. I've removed the use of devIocStats
> > from the example IOC on GitHub.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Cheers,
> > > >>> Matt
> > > >>>
> > > >>>> -----Original Message-----
> > > >>>> From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of
> > > >>>> Hartman, Steven via Tech-talk
> > > >>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 9:15 AM
> > > >>>> To: Jeong Han Lee <citadel.lee at gmail.com>; Juliane Reinhardt
> > > >>>> <jreinhardt at lbl.gov>
> > > >>>> Cc: tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
> > > >>>> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: lakeshore336 msi: Can't open file
> > 'ioc_sns.db'
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>> On Dec 15, 2020, at 2:27 AM, Jeong Han Lee via Tech-talk <tech-
> > > >>>> talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
> > > >>>>>    Please look at the example.substitutions file. It uses
> > > >>>>> ioc_sns.db within there. My first guess ioc_sns.db file is
> > > >>>>> missing or is located in a wrong directory.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> ioc_sns.db is a local configuration file for customizing iocStats
> > > >>>> on the SNS beam lines. It can be safely ignored / commented out.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> --
> > > >>>> Steven Hartman
> > > >>>> hartmansm at ornl.gov
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>
> > > >> --
> > > >> Juliane Reinhardt, PhD
> > > >> Project Scientist | ALS Computing Group Blg. 15-337E | phone:
> > > >> 510-486-4313 jreinhardt at lbl.gov Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
> > > >>
> > >
> > > --
> > > Juliane Reinhardt, PhD
> > > Project Scientist | ALS Computing Group Blg. 15-337E | phone:
> > > 510-486-4313 jreinhardt at lbl.gov Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
> > >

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