Portsdown hanging after repeated transmissions

[GI4DOH]

After a number of transmissions my Portsdown locks up. I have a RPi3B+ and software version 201903250. Configuration includes the PE43703 attenuator and 4-way switch.

If I have selected carrier only, after repeated selections of transmit and back to receive, on the 24th transmit selection the Portsdown locks in transmit. I have the kill switch enabled but it does not do anything at this point. Power off/on is the only cure.

If I have selected the test card and repeatedly select transmit and back to receive, eventually the Portsdown hangs with the Pi screen. This has ranged between 24 and 34 cycles. At this point the kill switch will shut down the Portsdown – at least I then know that it is safe to remove the power.

It’s not the end of the world but as I am trying to characterise amplifiers in 1 dB steps at the moment so it is happening a lot. Perhaps the consistent 24 times with just carrier selected might give a clue.

73 Richard

[g0mjw]

are you filling up the disc with multiple fifo buffers not being cleared perhaps? A quick check on the command line will tell you. e.g. Running du, df, ls commands in appropriate directories. Also can happen if the drive is too small. If that is whats happening there might be some permissions setting errors. A faulty / corrupt SD could also cause this, as could setting G4KLM in the callsign field as there are only 24 hours in a day...

Mike

[GI4DOH]

Hi Mike – thanks for the reply.

I seem to have 2 different problems here. I have just tried a new SD card in my Portsdown system and also tried my old RPi3 that is not connected to anything other than the 3.5” touch screen. The results are the same with both issues.

Problem 1: When transmitting carrier only, after switching to transmit for the 24th time the Pi hangs. The screen is locked and I can not log in with Putty. Power off/on is the only way to recover. This happens with both the old and new SD card in the RPi3B+ in the Portsdown box and with the older RPi3 and its SD card as a free standing entity.

Problem 2: When transmitting the test card, after 24 or more attempts to switch to transmit the RPi hangs with the Pi screen – this morning it took 24 attempts on each of the 3 configurations. No response to the touch screen but able to log in with Putty.

There was a repeated message…

rpidatvgui: oglinit.c:147: oglinit: Assertion `state->surface != EGL_NO_SURFACE' failed.

This stopped after Control-C. du and df gave…

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ du
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8 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/objects/25
8 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/objects/02
8 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/objects/b7
8 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/objects/d9
8 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/objects/07
16 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/objects/3e
556 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/objects
48 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/hooks
4 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/refs/tags
8 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/refs/heads
8 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/refs/remotes/origin
12 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/refs/remotes
28 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/refs
8 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/logs/refs/heads
8 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin
12 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/logs/refs/remotes
24 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/logs/refs
32 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/logs
8 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/info
4 ./pi-sdn-build/.git/branches
700 ./pi-sdn-build/.git
740 ./pi-sdn-build
164 ./rpidatv/doc/img
540 ./rpidatv/doc
25412 ./rpidatv/bin
44 ./rpidatv/scripts/utils
980 ./rpidatv/scripts/images
240 ./rpidatv/scripts/configs/freqshow
336 ./rpidatv/scripts/configs
1792 ./rpidatv/scripts
224 ./rpidatv/video
168 ./rpidatv/src/hello_video
24 ./rpidatv/src/rptr
16 ./rpidatv/src/siggen/fontutil
2548 ./rpidatv/src/siggen
20 ./rpidatv/src/streamrx
16 ./rpidatv/src/xy/fontutil
2364 ./rpidatv/src/xy
12 ./rpidatv/src/tstools/data
12144 ./rpidatv/src/tstools/bin
1648 ./rpidatv/src/tstools/lib
88 ./rpidatv/src/tstools/python/tstools
128 ./rpidatv/src/tstools/python
96 ./rpidatv/src/tstools/docs/mdoc
228 ./rpidatv/src/tstools/docs
2316 ./rpidatv/src/tstools/obj
8 ./rpidatv/src/tstools/yuv2/bin
100 ./rpidatv/src/tstools/yuv2/src/com/aminocom/yuv2
104 ./rpidatv/src/tstools/yuv2/src/com/aminocom
108 ./rpidatv/src/tstools/yuv2/src/com
116 ./rpidatv/src/tstools/yuv2/src
136 ./rpidatv/src/tstools/yuv2
8 ./rpidatv/src/tstools/debian/source
36 ./rpidatv/src/tstools/debian
18708 ./rpidatv/src/tstools
16 ./rpidatv/src/avc2ts/libmpegts/smpte
40 ./rpidatv/src/avc2ts/libmpegts/dvb
20 ./rpidatv/src/avc2ts/libmpegts/crc
8 ./rpidatv/src/avc2ts/libmpegts/isdb
16 ./rpidatv/src/avc2ts/libmpegts/cablelabs
24 ./rpidatv/src/avc2ts/libmpegts/hdmv
16 ./rpidatv/src/avc2ts/libmpegts/atsc
524 ./rpidatv/src/avc2ts/libmpegts
2340 ./rpidatv/src/avc2ts
156 ./rpidatv/src/limesdr_toolbox/CMakeFiles/limesdr_send.dir
4 ./rpidatv/src/limesdr_toolbox/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp
36 ./rpidatv/src/limesdr_toolbox/CMakeFiles/3.7.2/CompilerIdCXX
36 ./rpidatv/src/limesdr_toolbox/CMakeFiles/3.7.2/CompilerIdC
116 ./rpidatv/src/limesdr_toolbox/CMakeFiles/3.7.2
148 ./rpidatv/src/limesdr_toolbox/CMakeFiles/limesdr_forward.dir
148 ./rpidatv/src/limesdr_toolbox/CMakeFiles/limesdr_dump.dir
80 ./rpidatv/src/limesdr_toolbox/CMakeFiles/limesdr_stopchannel.dir
756 ./rpidatv/src/limesdr_toolbox/CMakeFiles
8 ./rpidatv/src/limesdr_toolbox/cmake/Modules
12 ./rpidatv/src/limesdr_toolbox/cmake
1136 ./rpidatv/src/limesdr_toolbox
16 ./rpidatv/src/leansdr/test
548 ./rpidatv/src/leansdr/src/apps
192 ./rpidatv/src/leansdr/src/leansdr
744 ./rpidatv/src/leansdr/src
812 ./rpidatv/src/leansdr
516 ./rpidatv/src/DvbTsToIQ
72 ./rpidatv/src/adf4351
168 ./rpidatv/src/hello_video2
80 ./rpidatv/src/libdvbmod/DVB-T
156 ./rpidatv/src/libdvbmod/DVB-S2
988 ./rpidatv/src/libdvbmod/lib
40 ./rpidatv/src/libdvbmod/DVB-S
296 ./rpidatv/src/libdvbmod/obj/DVB-T
640 ./rpidatv/src/libdvbmod/obj/DVB-S2
56 ./rpidatv/src/libdvbmod/obj/DVB-S
1048 ./rpidatv/src/libdvbmod/obj
2352 ./rpidatv/src/libdvbmod
16 ./rpidatv/src/gui/fontutil
4108 ./rpidatv/src/gui
64 ./rpidatv/src/atten
8 ./rpidatv/src/pi-sdn
24 ./rpidatv/src/keyedtx
36080 ./rpidatv/src
64144 ./rpidatv
172044 .
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 15240048 1776804 12811444 13% /
devtmpfs 443724 0 443724 0% /dev
tmpfs 448332 0 448332 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 448332 5996 442336 2% /run
tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 448332 0 448332 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 10240 128 10112 2% /home/pi/tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p1 43539 22444 21096 52% /boot
tmpfs 89664 0 89664 0% /run/user/1000
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

This is all ‘out of the box’ – I haven’t touched anything as I don’t know a lot about these things.

Life can go on despite this but there’s obviously something not quite right.

73 Richard GI4DOH

[G8GKQ]

Hi Richard

I can understand your frustration, but please remember that this is a community project, not a commercial product. During the early days of Portsdown releases I was pleased to get it to transmit 3 times in a row - let alone 24 times!

The error message

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rpidatvgui: oglinit.c:147: oglinit: Assertion `state->surface != EGL_NO_SURFACE' failed.

suggests that the problem is in the way that the Portsdown uses the graphics driver used to paint the touchscreen https://github.com/ajstarks/openvg. There may be a resource (a surface?) that is not being released prior to being recreated. I will try to fix it in due course, but it is not high on my priority list.

For outputting varying levels of RF (carrier or H264 video), the Signal Generator function of the Portsdown is ideal, as the output level can be varied without dropping carrier. However, due to the requirement for the LimeSDR to be calibrated prior to each transmission, I have not yet integrated the LimeSDR with the signal generatior code. The SigGen does work well with the Portsdown filter-modulator board and the DATV Express modulator board.

You can work around your problem without restarting the Portsdown (I think). If you get to the command line once the touchscreen has frozen, simply enter the command

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/home/pi/rpidatv/scripts/utils/guir.sh

and this will restart the touchscreen process.

I hope that explains the situation.

73

Dave, G8GKQ

[GI4DOH]

Hi Dave

It's not a major problem thanks - just one that is at least repeatable - better the devil you know etc. The two issues are both with the Portsdown 2018 config - my only concern with the carrier only one is that I can't get to the command line and do a clean shutdown and the kill switch doesn't work - but it it isn't doing anything then nothing will be corrupted in the power down sequence. With the full modulated signal issue the kill switch works and I can log in and reboot - spoilt for choice. I thought perhaps the fact that it was after 24 transmissions might quickly point the finger at something simple.

I've noted your comment on being able to change the level while in Sig Gen mode - that will save me some button pushing thanks. The ability to change signal levels in 1dB steps with the attenuator board is very useful for playing with bias and drive levels in associated amplifiers - brilliant stuff thanks.

73 Richard GI4DOH

[G8GKQ]

Thanks Richard

Yes - I reproduced the carrier crash this afternoon. It seems to totally stall the RPi, but it gives no prior warning of being short of memory or CPU power. I will keep looking at both issues as it is useful to be able to reproduce the problems - I might find the cause....

73

Dave

[GI4DOH]

Many lives ago in system integration and test in System X telephone exchange development, everything was centred around automatic self diagnosis with 2 out of 3 majorities, belts and braces etc and we found almost as many bugs in the diagnostic side as in the core functionality. Technology has changed but the frustration factor is just the same. Keep up the good work Dave.

Richard