Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Feng, Shuchen" <[email protected]> · Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:48:15 -0500

Marty Kraimer wrote :

>I am not familiar with the Joerger VSC16 device support so it is hard to
>know where to start.

>The error is because some DBF_XXXLINK has not been initialized properly.

>Some suggestions.

>If you know how to use a linux source level debugger it will make your
>task easier.

>If not do the following:

>Put printf statement in the init_record routines of both record and
>device 
>support. Put the printf statement at entrace and exit and before/after
>any call 
>to other routines.

>Then send another Email message showing.

>1) The output of the printfs
>2) The source for the device support.
>3) If any recordtype not coming from base is used, it's source.
>3) The record definitions from the database that causes the problem.

It turns out that cascaded problems pointed the blame at EPICS sources.
At this moment, I found no evidence against the EPICS source yet after
I tracked down the root cause of the error message.  The root cause
has to do with the internal EPICS setup  on my computer.  

Thanks,
Kate

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System