Re: RTAI 5.0-test2 released

On 06/24/2016 02:19 AM, Paolo Mantegazza wrote:
 > If the problem is related to a lock due to many modules removal it is
 > difficult for me to say anything, especially in view of the use of a
 > virtual env. I've just a question: does the same happens out of a
 > virtualization?
>
> Paolo

I just ran an over-night test on bare metal.  It ran much longer than in 
my virtual machines, but this morning it too had crashed.

The console was blank and unresponsive, so i don't have any info to help 
debug this, sorry :-(

I'd be happy to run any tests anyone would like.




> From: Rtai [[email protected]] on behalf of Sebastian Kuzminsky [[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 6:52 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Rtai] RTAI 5.0-test2 released
>
> On 05/04/2016 02:07 AM, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>> Dear RTAI enthusiasts,
>>
>> 5.0-test2 has been released.
>>
>> <https://www.rtai.org/userfiles/downloads/RTAI/rtai-5.0-test2.tar.bz2>
>>
>> It features modified latency calibrations, which should work also in
>> case of cross development, added a user space SMI supervisor.
>>
>> Its parent VULCANO have been thoroughly checked and this test release
>> should aim at verifying if its make-install stuff works as expected.
>>
>> Please test and report thru this mailing list, as usual.
>
> Thanks, Pierangelo!  The new cross calibration stuff is great, really
> helps my work flow.
>
> However, i'm having trouble running tests in a virtual machine.  After
> several load/test/unload cycles, the machine locks up, with no helpful
> kernel messages on the console or in dmesg.
>
> I'm *not* trying to use virtual machines for actual realtime workloads,
> i'm just using it for correctness tests of my realtime application.  For
> actual work i run the application on a bare-metal rtai machine.
>
>
> I'm using a Vulcano CVS snapshot from 2016 May 12, there have been no
> checkins since then.
>
> I'm using Linux 3.18.20, and hal-linux-3.18.20-x86-6.patch.
>
> My kernel config and my rtai configure command is here, along with a
> dmesg showing boot & rtai load:
> http://highlab.com/~seb/rtai/vm-problem.2016-06-23/
>
> A debian package archive (for Debian Jessie) with the kernel debs and
> rtai-modules debs is here:
>
> deb http://highlab.com/~seb/linuxcnc jessie main
>
> The packages to install to see this issue are
> linux-image-3.18.0-1-rtai-686-pae (or -amd64) and rtai-modules-3.18.0-1.
>
>
> I'd appreciate any help debugging this.  I'm perfectly willing to run
> any tests you suggest.
>
>
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