[Lcdproc] Problems with CF634 usb

[Stewart W. Putnam]

I do not have the 634 or any model that can be run on the CFontz 
driver.  Excuse me if I've said something to imply otherwise.

I have a 633, a 631, and a 635 and can run them on the CFontz633 & 
CFontzPacket drivers (though mostly with the version I've made to work 
with temperature sensors and fans on the 633 & 63[1|5]+ addon board.)

I do not have daemonization problems with the hardware and driver 
combinations that I can test myself.  I have yet to see on the list here 
the level of detail, posted logs at ReportLevel=5, to conclude that 
there is a daemonization issue with the CFontz driver for the 634.  As 
in: apparent difficulties likely installation / configuration until 
proven otherwise by posted ReportLevel=5 logs.

I've been working on my fan { fan RPM signal compatible process control 
insturmentation } and temperature sensor  / integrated  lm-sensors, 
procps, hddtemp datalogging performance / watt, waste heat management 
golly-it-has-a-lcd-and-displays-stuff-too driver & documentation.  
"Sometime soon" I'll send a 100k tarball patch to the list here.



brian wrote:

> ...and, further to that quoted below, you may also be suffering from 
> the same problem I am here... in that the LCDd daemon doesn't properly 
> detect it's child process and daemonize during initialization.   
> That's what I'm seeing here with my CF USB device.  If I (manually) 
> `kill -USR1` the parent process after startup, everything is fine.  
> [shrug]   Last I heard, someone had found a section in the source 
> where the parent/child process handling had been changed several times 
> (perhaps to combat the very issue I'm seeing).
>
>
> Stewart W. Putnam wrote:
>
>>
>> Looks like two things, specifying configuration options and trying to 
>> start LCDd when it is already running.
>>
>> "sock_create_inet_socket: Could not bind to port 13666 at address 
>> 127.0.0.1 - Address already in use" means one (likely failed) LCDd is 
>> already running and a new one cannot be started.  Do a
>> mk4:~# ps -A | grep LCDd
>> 1897 ?        00:00:00 LCDd
>> mk4:~# kill -9 1897
>> to end a running LCDd before starting a new one.  Replace the "1897" 
>> with what your ps -A | grep returns.
>>
>> "Could not read config file: LCDd.conf" means LCDd can't find the 
>> LCDd.conf that you wanted it to.
>> use server/LCDd -c 
>> /usr/src/cf633/lcdproc-CVS-stable-0-5-x-20070427/LCDd.conf (change to 
>> your full path to properly edited LCDd.conf) and see if it finds that 
>> file.
>>
>> While you are figuring this out and working from the build directory, 
>> "-r 4" and "-f" might also be usefull starting options.
>>
>> There is nothing in your report to suggest a problem with these in 
>> your config, but as try more make sure the lines
>> DriverPath= in [server] and Device= in [CFontz] of LCDd.conf are 
>> correct.
>>
>> Enzo Saturno wrote:
>>
>>> Hi... I`ve just received my CF 634 display.. I read the Users Guide, 
>>> made the configurations in LCDd.conf, and connect the display into 
>>> the usb port... When i run in my Linux console the comand: 
>>> server/LCDd -c LCDd.conf appears..
>>>
>>> [root@localhost lcdproc-0.5.2]# server/LCDd -c LCDd.conf
>>> Could not read config file: LCDd.conf
>>> Critical error while processing settings, abort.
>>>
>>> if i run just server/LCDd:
>>>
>>> [root@localhost lcdproc-0.5.2]# server/LCDd
>>> sock_create_inet_socket: Could not bind to port 13666 at address 
>>> 127.0.0.1 - Address already in use
>>> sock_init: Error creating socket - Address already in use
>>> Critical error while initializing, abort.
>>>
>>> I dont know what to do... if the problem is with the display 
>>> mounting, or with the configurations... i really need some help!
>>> Thanx
>>>
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