Software troubes - gr_vmcircbuf ...?

GNU Radio
1

I’ve been trying to get Gnuradio running with my USRP2, and am still
having some troubles. My computer is an older Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop
running Debian (Lenny). I’ve installed a D-Link DGE-660TD Gigabit
Cardbus adapter, and have compiled what I believe is the most recent
release of the code per the instructions in the README file.

I can find the USRP2 by running the find_usrps command, but oddly enough
this occasionally segfaults. So far what looks like the most intriguing
error message I got when trying to run usrp2_fft.py. This looks like:

usrp2_fft.py
usrp2: failed to enable realtime scheduling
gr_vmcircbuf_createfilemapping: createfilemapping is not available
usrp2: channel 0 not receiving
usrp2::rx_samples() failed

Does this provide any clues to those of you more familiar with the
software?

I’ve tried flashing the firmware, and that didn’t change anything. I’ve
also tried swapping out my USRP2 with a box running on a different
machine seems to work, so this seems likely to be a software problem.

Any ideas what could be going on here?

  • Wayde
2

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 02:04:59PM -0600, wallen wrote:

usrp2_fft.py
usrp2: failed to enable realtime scheduling

Edit /etc/security/limits.conf and add this line:

@usrp - rtprio 50

then logout and back in.

gr_vmcircbuf_createfilemapping: createfilemapping is not available

This is a little odd. Does it pass “make check”?

usrp2: channel 0 not receiving
usrp2::rx_samples() failed

Does this provide any clues to those of you more familiar with the
software?

Does it pass “make check”?

I’ve tried flashing the firmware, and that didn’t change anything. I’ve
also tried swapping out my USRP2 with a box running on a different
machine seems to work, so this seems likely to be a software problem.

Any ideas what could be going on here?

  • Wayde

Eric

3

On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 18:32 -0700, Eric B. wrote:

usrp2_fft.py
usrp2: failed to enable realtime scheduling

Edit /etc/security/limits.conf and add this line:

@usrp - rtprio 50

then logout and back in.

OK, I’ll give that a try shortly.

Does it pass “make check”?
Yes, it seems to. Didn’t get anything that sad it failed.

  • Wayde
4

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:51:47AM -0600, wallen wrote:

error message I got when trying to run usrp2_fft.py. This looks like:
Well … that doesn’t seem to change anything. I still get the same
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gnuradio/usrp2.py”,
line
621, in source_32fc
return _usrp2.source_32fc(*args, **kwargs)
RuntimeError: Unable to retrieve daughterboard info

This error makes me think that you don’t have the current firmware and
fpga images installed on the SD Card.

You can download them here:

http://gnuradio.org/releases/usrp2-bin/trunk/txrx_edk10.1_r10925.bin
http://gnuradio.org/releases/usrp2-bin/trunk/u2_rev3_ise10.1sp3_r10766.bin

Eric

5

On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 18:32 -0700, Eric B. wrote:

usrp2_fft.py
usrp2: failed to enable realtime scheduling

Edit /etc/security/limits.conf and add this line:

@usrp - rtprio 50

then logout and back in.

Well … that doesn’t seem to change anything. I still get the same
error if I try running as a regular user. Running as root gives me
different errors. Running this as root after trying as a regular user I
got:

./usrp2_fft.py

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./usrp2_fft.py”, line 273, in
main ()
File “./usrp2_fft.py”, line 269, in main
app = stdgui2.stdapp(app_top_block, “USRP2 FFT”, nstatus=1)
File
“/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gnuradio/wxgui/stdgui2.py”,
line
36, in init
wx.App.init (self, redirect=False)
File
“/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py”,
line
7836, in init
self._BootstrapApp()
File
“/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py”,
line
7433, in _BootstrapApp
return core.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
File
“/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gnuradio/wxgui/stdgui2.py”,
line
39, in OnInit
frame = stdframe (self.top_block_maker, self.title,
self._nstatus)
File
“/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gnuradio/wxgui/stdgui2.py”,
line
60, in init
self.panel = stdpanel (self, self, top_block_maker)
File
“/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gnuradio/wxgui/stdgui2.py”,
line
81, in init
self.top_block = top_block_maker (frame, self, vbox, sys.argv)
File “./usrp2_fft.py”, line 70, in init
self.u = usrp2.source_32fc(options.interface, options.mac_addr)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gnuradio/usrp2.py”,
line
621, in source_32fc
return _usrp2.source_32fc(*args, **kwargs)
RuntimeError: Unable to retrieve daughterboard info

Trying to run again as root I get:

./usrp2_fft.py

usrp2: channel 0 not receiving
usrp2::rx_samples() failed

Not quite sure where to look to resolve what is going on here.

  • Wayde