Re: latest release

[Jon Elson <jmelson-at-artsci.wustl.edu>]

Ray Henry wrote:

> Dan and list
>
> I downloaded emc-Jan-21-2000.tgz.  The first time I compiled it I got some
> of the same time skew messages that were around with y2k and someone on the
> list.  Took linux down, bios clock was okay, so I brought it back up and
> tried the compile again and it went file.  I'm wondering if it could be an
> xwindows problem or linux shifting wall time over a long run so that its
> time is behind the download time from my download machine. (I know nothing
> about this)

No, one of our machines that is always up had the clock set to 1996!
No need to reboot, just re-set the clock (date = .... )

>
> Next I started by copying in my own run and ini files and the first startup
> failed -- unable to establish nml communication with some file or another.
> I have this problem every time I start up a new build.  I think it is
> looking for a log file that it creates on the first pass but can't connect
> to in time to go ahead.  The second and subsequent startups of any
> combination of machine except freqmod.o based machines seems to work fine.
>
> What happens with freqmod.o seems to be that it loads into the kernel but
> does not get removed when emc stops.  Then when you try to load another
> machine using  steppermod.o a run file command collides with the still
> running freqmod.o.  I have to shutdown linux and re-boot because I can't
> remember the proper command to remove the running module.

lsmod lists the modules
rmmod removes a module by name, ie. rmmod freqmod

Jon