Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Matt Newville <[email protected]> · Tue, 8 Mar 2011 20:06:04 -0600

Hi All,

Sorry, I intended to respond to the whole list, but responded to Mark alone.

As Mark said, the problem he was seeing was specific to PyEpics 3.0.11
on 64-bit systems, and not related to the patches for 3.14.12. The
problem is fixed in the git repository for pyepics.

--Matt Newville <newville at cars.uchicago.edu> 630-252-0431

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Vigder, Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andrew/Jeff
>
> Thanks for the patch suggestions. Turns out the problem was PyEpics 3.0.11 on 64 bit systems. Matt had already fixed it with the latest version that was in the repository.
>
> I certainly appreciate the help.
>
> Mark
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Andrew Johnson [[email protected]]
> Sent: March 8, 2011 3:16 PM
> To: [email protected]; Vigder, Mark
> Subject: Re: PyEpics segmentation faults
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Please try applying the patch from the 3.14.12 Known Problems page dated
> 2011-02-16 to your EPICS Base installation to see if it helps.  This patch has
> been reported to fix a couple of CA client issues at different sites now, and
> if it helps you too I'll make it more prominent on that page.
>
>  http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/R3-14/12-docs/KnownProblems.html
>
> - Andrew
>
> On Tuesday 08 March 2011 13:45:32 Vigder, Mark wrote:
>> I'm running PyEpics 3.0.11, on Ubuntu 10.04.2, Epics 3-14-12, Python 2.6.5,
>> linux-x86_64. A while ago (perhaps with earlier versions of something?)
>> everything seemed to be working fine. I hadn't used it for a while, but now
>> when I fire it up I end up with weird behaviour, e.g.:
>>
>> -I type: Motor('XXX:m1'). Returns error, saying 'XXX:m1' is not a motor.
>>
>> -I type: Motor('XXX:m1') a second time. This one works.
>>
>> -Sometime later, I'll get a 'Segmentation fault'.
>>
>> Anybody seen this kind of behaviour? Any ideas what's going on or where I
>> should start looking for solutions?
>>
>> P.S., I just tried with Python3.1. Same thing.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mark
>>
>> Mark Vigder
>> Canadian Neutron Beam Centre
> --
> An error is only a mistake if you don't learn from it.
> When you learn something from it, it becomes a lesson.
>
>

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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