Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Vladimir Sirotenko <[email protected]> · Wed, 01 Aug 2001 13:44:22 -0500

Hi Jeff,

Thanks, I suspect that that was OS related problems as you indicated. Our CA
client runs on OSF1, v5 machine.
This was first time in about a month continous running we saw this error and
can not reproduce it easily.
So we'll keep eye on it.

Vladimir

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Hill" <[email protected]>
To: "Vladimir Sirotenko" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 12:31 PM
Subject: RE: ca assert

>
> Vladimir,
>
> >
> > We are running DAQ application which queries portable CA server running
on
> > NT for several PV's.
> > Everything worked well but today it crashed with the following massage:
> >
> > A call to "assert (status == 0)" failed in ../iocinf.c line 1472.
> > The file "core" will be created in the current working directory.
> > Please save this file and the text of this message in order to assist
> > in diagnosing this problem.
> > Please contact the author of this software or else send the text of
> > this message to "[email protected]"
> > This problem occurred in "@(#)Version R3.13.4 $2000/12/15 15:52:33$"
> >
> > Could someone advise us what may cause this crash?
>
> There appears to be a problem with the following code that closes the
socket
> when disconnecting from a server.
>
>   status = socket_close (piiu->sock_chan);
> assert (status == 0);
>
> What OS was this _client_ running on? If on Windows, what OS version is in
use?
>
> There is another assert test that detects if the close is executed twice
> and this situation was not detected first. Therefore, I am guessing that
> one of the following is the cause.
>
> o OS related problems with closing a valid socket
> o the data structures employed by the CA client library have been
corrupted
> o CA client library object files are not all compiled with the same
version of
> the header files. This might occur if the header files updated on windows
and
> a complete rebuild is not completed with "make rebuild" or "make clean"
followed
> by "make".
>
> Is this problem easily reproducible? Is it intermittent?
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System