Defunct HTMLGenD processes

[Ttech2]

While wview works its html generation daemon seems to have some kind
of issue on Ubuntu 9.04. When its running for more then a few hours it
begins to get many defunct htmlgend processes - over a 5 day period I
had about 1444. The only process effected is the htmlgend proccess the
other parts of wview work properly.

[mteel]

What version of wview? This was a known problem which was fixed around
version 5.1.0 or so.

[Oscar Barlow]

I'm using 5.5.1 and it just started happening for me.
Oscar

On Jun 20, 9:26 am, mteel <mteel2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What version of wview? This was a known problem which was fixed around
> version 5.1.0 or so.
>
> On Jun 19, 3:57 pm, Ttech2 <tt...@mostlynothing.info> wrote:
>
> > While wview works its html generation daemon seems to have some kind
> > of issue on Ubuntu 9.04. When its running for more then a few hours it

> > begins to get many defuncthtmlgendprocesses - over a 5 day period I
> > had about 1444. The only process effected is thehtmlgendproccess the

[Mark S. Teel]

Hmmm, I'm guessing the marker file support for the export scripts. I'll
have a look when there is time.

Mark

[Oscar Barlow]

I moved wview processing to a different machine and recompiled wview
5.5.1. Not getting the defunct processes anymore.

Oscar

[mongoose]

I can confirm the same defunct process behavior on Ubuntu 9.04 with
wview 5.5.0.

I have compiled 5.5.1 but have not yet installed it. I'll post the
results after the upgrade.

Joe

[Katherine Barto]

Trying to install wiew-5.5.0 on my Mac Mini. Everything compiles and
appears to work, upon restart of the machine however the following
appears, and then it errors out.
Jul 6 18:45:29 mini wviewd[169]: <1246931129926> : vproStartProcState:
WAKEUP failed - retry
Repeats every 2 seconds until...
Jul 6 18:46:38 mini wviewd[169]: <1246931198074> : vproStartProcState:
WAKEUP failed - retry
Jul 6 18:46:42 mini wviewd[169]: <1246931202333> : vproStartProcState:
WAKEUP failed - ERROR

what does this mean?

Mac Mini (intel), 10.5.7, scads of ram, and disk, wview 5.5.0.
On an unrelated note, does anyone know of the pinout for a DB9 to rj11
connection? I've got it hooked up using the 4 pins (Y G R BL)
connected as
Yellow -> 7
Green -> 2
Red -> 3
BL -> NC
Any help with this would be useful as well.

Thanks,

ba...@ucsd.edu

[Mark S. Teel]

I don't think it is unrelated. WAKEUP failed => no working serial interface.

Mark

[Katherine Barto]

I've got a DB9 to RJ11 adaptor and a USB serial adaptor, and some
software to probe and test the serial port.

What I don't have (most likely) is the correct pinout for the DB9 ->
RJ11 connection.

The adaptor has 2 lights which do light up (proving nothing), and I
think I've got the connection figured out by looking at http://www.meadow.net/pinouts.html
.

As best I can determine is that RJ11 pins look like this:
1 Signal Ground
2 Ready to Send
3 Transmit Data
4 Receive Data

When you hold the RJ 11 connector with the tab UP and pins down,
counting from left to right.

The DB9 should have
2 Receive Data
3 Transmit Data
5 Signal Ground (Alternative pin 7)
7 Request to Send (Alternative pin 4)

So I think I should be wiring up
RJ11 DB9
1 -> 5 (or 7)
2 -> 7 (or 4)
3 -> 3
4 -> 2

With the option of swapping 3->2 and 4->3 for a null modem style cable.

So - Does anyone have the Rj-11/DB9 adaptor from Davis and know what
the pins being used are?

As well can anyone tell me the RS-232 settings used for the Vantage-
Pro? I think it is 57,600, 8, N, 1 but I can't get any response from
the system using that.

It is close, but not quite yet working.

Thanks
David

ba...@ucsd.edu

[Ken Hornstein]

>As best I can determine is that RJ11 pins look like this:
>1 Signal Ground
>2 Ready to Send
>3 Transmit Data
>4 Receive Data
>
>When you hold the RJ 11 connector with the tab UP and pins down,
>counting from left to right.

I don't believe that is correct.

According to the serial adapter that came with my VantagePro 2, what I have
is:

RJ-11 1 (Yellow) - wired to to DB-9 1, 4, 6 (DCD, DTR, DSR)
RJ-11 2 (Green) - wired to DB-9 5 (Ground)
RJ-11 3 (Red) - wired to DB-9 2 (Receive Data)
RJ-11 4 (Black) - wired to DB-9 3 (Transmit Data)

Additionally, DB-9 7 is jumpered to DB-9 8 (RTS to CTS)

I can tell you from experience you need to assert DTR, otherwise the
VantagePro console will not communicate with you.

>As well can anyone tell me the RS-232 settings used for the Vantage-
>Pro? I think it is 57,600, 8, N, 1 but I can't get any response from
>the system using that.

So ... where did you get that from? AFAIK, the max the console can do
is 19,200 (8N1). If you put the console in setup mode, you can get the
communication parameters the console is configured to use.

--Ken