Initial install not starting as it should

[Steve Booth]

I'm just starting on my PiDP-11 journey, so pleases forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question.  Know that I did do several searches and couldn't find anything that seemed to apply.

I'm just running my Pi standalone and I'm trying to figure out if it's actually working.  When I execute the 'pidp11.sh 2' command, I get:

Is this normal?  I'm thinking there should be a menu or something?

Thanks for any help!

Steve

[Johnny Billquist]

Those errors seem to be that the server and client for front panel
action have not been started.

What do you get if you do

service pidp11 status

?

Johnny

On 2023-11-26 01:05, Steve Booth wrote:
> I'm just starting on my PiDP-11 journey, so pleases forgive me if I'm
> asking a stupid question.  Know that I did do several searches and
> couldn't find anything that seemed to apply.
>
> I'm just running my Pi standalone and I'm trying to figure out if it's
> actually working.  When I execute the 'pidp11.sh 2' command, I get:
>

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>
>
> Is this normal?  I'm thinking there should be a menu or something?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Steve
>

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[Steve Booth]

So on Raspian, there is no 'service' it's systemctl, and I get:

[Johnny Billquist]

So it's clearly not starting client11 or server11.

Looking at /etc/init.d/pidp11 on my system, I have basically that
do_start() will end up running /opt/pidp11/bin/pidp11.sh.

And if I look in that file, I have:

.
.
.
# create a bootscript for simh in the /run ramdisk:
(echo cd /opt/pidp11/systems/$sel;
echo do boot.ini
) >/run/pidp11/tmpsimhcommand.txt
echo "*** Start client/server ***"
sudo ./server11 &
sleep 2
sudo ./client11 /run/pidp11/tmpsimhcommand.txt


So, I guess you could check that you have something similar, and if not,
figure out where that got lost.

And if you do have it, figure out why it isn't started.

Johnny

On 2023-11-26 03:23, Steve Booth wrote:
> So on Raspian, there is no 'service' it's systemctl, and I get:
>

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[steve...@gmail.com]

Maybe e it's just because I'm running a fairly old version, but all I ever do is type:

./pdp.sh

No need for the /opt/pidp11/... stuff? You might try that and see if it works?

-- steve

[Johnny Billquist]

Uh. Well... pdp.sh is just a script that reattach you to screen, which
is supposedly already running the pidp11. That, however, got started by
/opt/pidp11/...

If that hadn't already been done, your pdp.sh would not give you
anything. The op is in that situation. The /opt/pidp11/... seems to not
have run as it should.

Johnny

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[Steve Booth]

For some inexplicable reason the libreadline.so library had a link in /user/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf as follows:

    /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libreadline.s0.7 -> libreadline.so.8

Note that character after readline.s is a ZERO, not a lower-case 'o'.  No idea why that is in there.

I created a new link with the correct name:

    /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libreadline.so.7 -> /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libreadline.so.8

And client11 now seems to start correctly.

Weird.