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      fmertz last edited by

      @stephenw10:

      @fmertz:

      Somehow the existing WGXepc code does not seem to line up with the spec…

      Hmm, in what way?
      There was a problem because the GPIO base is set to a non-standard value on the X-core.
      On the other boxes it is at 0x480, which I believe is the standard value where as the X-Core is at 0x4080.

      Steve

      The way I read it, this particular device ID is an ICH2, and has the GPIO base port stored at offset 0x58 (page 9-1). Fine. The value at that offset happens to be 4081, which, masked off is 4080 (this was listed in the pciconf command, and is already in your code). Fine. In your code, you use port 4080 + 0x0f. Offset 15 in the GPIO area is for GPIO level, and bits control pins. Fine. The blink register is at offset 0x18 (32 bit), so I am not sure how it can blink with just the level register, or how it is not possible to turn the LEDs off…

      For the X-Core-e, the Level port controls on/off, the Blink port controls the, well, blinking, and it all can be turned off with putting the bit to zero.

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      • stephenw10
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

        I had to re-read the thread to remind myself what happened. I agree with you it doesn't make any sense! In fact you can see, here, where I was expecting the registers to work as you describe above but the experimental results show otherwise.

        One thing that is different about the X-core is that you can set the LED state in the BIOS (though I've never tried it myself). And you have a choice of red or green and fast or slow flash. There is no fast/slow blink described in the documentation yet it is clearly available.  :-\

        Steve

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          tix last edited by

          Hello

          I've tried the latest .92 package and my x-core will still become unresponsive at the 10 hour mark.

          I'm out of ideas on what the issue could be… :(

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            mdima last edited by

            @tix:

            Hello

            I've tried the latest .92 package and my x-core will still become unresponsive at the 10 hour mark.

            I'm out of ideas on what the issue could be… :(

            Hi Tix,
              Thank you for the feedback. I am trying a new version with a lot of changes, if it passes my tests I will publish it… Cross your fingers...

            Ciao,
              Michele

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              fmertz last edited by

              @mdima:

              @tix:

              Hello

              I've tried the latest .92 package and my x-core will still become unresponsive at the 10 hour mark.

              I'm out of ideas on what the issue could be… :(

              Hi Tix,
                 Thank you for the feedback. I am trying a new version with a lot of changes, if it passes my tests I will publish it… Cross your fingers...

              Ciao,
                 Michele

              Shot in the dark: is the client reading the responses back from LCDd? The release notes mentioned something about ignoring them causing unpleasant behavior …

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                Cino last edited by

                I'm noticing a bug that I haven't seen since before the re-write of the package. If my second WAN does down (3G wireless), and comes back up; lcdclient seems to lose the connection to LCDd. In the past I would have pages of errors in the system log. but i dont have any this time. I do want to say this started with the last changes.

                Still want to see if I can reproduce this on the fly (maybe tin cup around the 3G Wireless USB stick) but wanted to report it

                Edit: I think this may have been a fluke… my 3g went down a couple of times last night and no issues with lcdproc

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                  mdima last edited by

                  @fmertz:

                  @mdima:

                  @tix:

                  Hello
                  I've tried the latest .92 package and my x-core will still become unresponsive at the 10 hour mark.
                  I'm out of ideas on what the issue could be… :(

                  Hi Tix,
                    Thank you for the feedback. I am trying a new version with a lot of changes, if it passes my tests I will publish it… Cross your fingers...

                  Ciao,
                    Michele

                  Shot in the dark: is the client reading the responses back from LCDd? The release notes mentioned something about ignoring them causing unpleasant behavior …

                  Fmertz,
                    what do you mean? I just read the entire changelog and the release notes but I didn't find anything about that. Can you give me some references?

                  EDIT: Btw, yes, the client is reading the responses and log on pfSense if there is some error reported (messages with huh?)

                  Now I am running the binary 0.5.3 and the package 0.9.2 to see what changes. With 0.5.5 it looks like there are some problems having more than one screen, like there are problems for LCDd to "switch" during the screen rotation.

                  If you all set only one screen with 0.5.3 and pkg 0.9.2 do you have this problem?

                  Thanks,
                  Michele

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                    mdima last edited by

                    @Cino:

                    I'm noticing a bug that I haven't seen since before the re-write of the package. If my second WAN does down (3G wireless), and comes back up; lcdclient seems to lose the connection to LCDd. In the past I would have pages of errors in the system log. but i dont have any this time. I do want to say this started with the last changes.

                    Still want to see if I can reproduce this on the fly (maybe tin cup around the 3G Wireless USB stick) but wanted to report it

                    Edit: I think this may have been a fluke… my 3g went down a couple of times last night and no issues with lcdproc

                    Hi Cino,
                      well, this should have start with the last version of the package.

                    Before the LCDclient was trying to connect to LCDd forever (which caused endless lists of log entries and high CPU usage), now if it fails for 3 times straight it will end. In the while if LCDd restart to respond, it connects and resets the error counter.

                    I can understand that a gateway failture may cause a reset of the routes and the states, but if the client gets disconnected it starts other 2 times to reconnect (about 10 seconds between each attempt). Maybe we should increase it to 4… what do you think about it?

                    Thanks,
                    Michele

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                      fmertz last edited by

                      @mdima:

                      @fmertz:

                      Shot in the dark: is the client reading the responses back from LCDd? The release notes mentioned something about ignoring them causing unpleasant behavior …

                      Fmertz,
                        what do you mean? I just read the entire changelog and the release notes but I didn't find anything about that. Can you give me some references?

                      EDIT: Btw, yes, the client is reading the responses and log on pfSense if there is some error reported (messages with huh?)

                      https://github.com/fmertz/sdeclcd/blob/master/BUGS

                      The documentation for responses is here: http://lcdproc.sourceforge.net/docs/lcdproc-0-5-5-dev.html#language-messages

                      It says: LCDd can send messages back to the client. These messages can be directly related to the last command, or generated for some other reason. Because messages can be generated at any moment, the client should read from the connection at regular intervals. A very simple client could simply ignore all received messages. Not reading the messages will cause trouble !

                      I read this to mean that LCDd could generate more than one response to a command, or even send text outside of typical responses to commands. Does the PHP code accommodate for this? Reading the code, there seems to be the assumption that only 1 response comes back, maybe leaving responses hanging, and slowly filling the buffer. Just a thought.

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                        mdima last edited by

                        @fmertz:

                        It says: LCDd can send messages back to the client. These messages can be directly related to the last command, or generated for some other reason. Because messages can be generated at any moment, the client should read from the connection at regular intervals. A very simple client could simply ignore all received messages. Not reading the messages will cause trouble !

                        I read this to mean that LCDd could generate more than one response to a command, or even send text outside of typical responses to commands. Does the PHP code accommodate for this? Reading the code, there seems to be the assumption that only 1 response comes back, maybe leaving responses hanging, and slowly filling the buffer. Just a thought.

                        well… the client polls the data from LCDd, but maybe it's not enough... I am trying to see if I can do that better... in the while THANKS for the suggestions, this looks to me as the right direction! ;)

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                          mdima last edited by

                          If could be REALLY that… I am deeply debugging, and I found out that for each command I send to LCDd, this answer with some answer MORE... so in the end I send:

                          widget_set scr_time text_wdgt 1 2 20 2 h 4 "2/7/2012 23:19"
                          widget_set scr_time text_summary 1 4 "01% 56% 4529 37%"
                          widget_set scr_uptime text_wdgt 1 2 20 2 h 4 "17 days 9:18"
                          widget_set scr_uptime text_summary 1 4 "01% 56% 4529 37%"
                          widget_set scr_system text_wdgt 1 2 20 2 h 4 "CPU 11%, Mem 56%"
                          widget_set scr_system text_summary 1 4 "01% 56% 4529 37%"
                          widget_set scr_load text_wdgt 1 2 20 2 h 4 "0.06, 0.04, 0.01"
                          widget_set scr_load text_summary 1 4 "01% 56% 4529 37%"
                          widget_set scr_states text_wdgt 1 2 20 2 h 4 "Cur/Max 4578/500000"
                          widget_set scr_states text_summary 1 4 "01% 56% 4529 37%"
                          widget_set scr_ipsec text_wdgt 1 2 20 2 h 4 "IPSEC Disabled"
                          widget_set scr_ipsec text_summary 1 4 "01% 56% 4529 37%"
                          widget_set scr_traffic title_wdgt 1 1 "IN: 45.1 Kbps"
                          widget_set scr_traffic text_wdgt 1 2 "OUT: 2.1 Kbps"
                          widget_set scr_traffic text_summary 1 4 "01% 56% 4529 37%"
                          

                          and it answers:

                          success
                          success
                          success
                          success
                          success
                          success
                          success
                          success
                          success
                          success
                          success
                          success
                          success
                          success
                          success
                          ignore scr_system
                          listen scr_load
                          ignore scr_load
                          listen scr_states
                          ignore scr_states
                          listen scr_ipsec
                          ignore scr_ipsec
                          listen scr_traffic
                          ignore scr_traffic
                          listen scr_time
                          ignore scr_time
                          listen scr_uptime
                          ignore scr_uptime
                          listen scr_system
                          ignore scr_system
                          listen scr_load
                          

                          so if the ratio between write and get is 1:1, sooner or later the LCDd buffer will get full and LCDd will hang. Sorry but I found that code there and I really gave for granted that the ratio was 1:1, but the client gets too many answers from LCDd. The client must to "suck" all that answers in order to keep LCDd stable.

                          I will test this and publish a new release ASAP!

                          Ciao,
                          Michele

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                          • stephenw10
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                            Looks promising.  :)
                            More excellent work.

                            Steve

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                              tix last edited by

                              @mdima:

                              If you all set only one screen with 0.5.3 and pkg 0.9.2 do you have this problem?

                              Thanks,
                              Michele

                              I'm testing now, using only the "Interface Traffic" screen set to WAN.  It doesn't scroll left/right but obviously updates so the updating activity should tell us something I hope.

                              Will post an update in about 12 hours.

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                                fmertz last edited by

                                @mdima:

                                I will test this and publish a new release ASAP!

                                Which also can be read the other way (negative test): if you remove the code to read the responses, does LCDd die quickly, with 100% CPU?

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                                  mdima last edited by

                                  @fmertz:

                                  @mdima:

                                  I will test this and publish a new release ASAP!

                                  Which also can be read the other way (negative test): if you remove the code to read the responses, does LCDd die quickly, with 100% CPU?

                                  Hey,
                                      yes… before was like this:
                                  8 Screen enabled
                                  1 second as interval refresh

                                  LCDd was dieing after about 2h.

                                  With the full read of all the responses, same number of screens and refresh, it is working since 20h and it's still up and running.

                                  This evening I try to close a version and publish it...

                                  Ciao,
                                  Michele

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                                    mdima last edited by

                                    Hi,
                                      I just released a new version of the package. I feel that we are at a good point.

                                    Here is the changelist:

                                    • Improved the reception of data from LCDd. Now there's a cycle that run until there's no more data do receive. Before that there was the possibility of a buffer overflow in LCDd. The timeout of the receiving socket is 25ms.
                                    • Optimized the number of commands sent to LCDd every cycle. Now it is sent only the half;
                                    • Rewritten with better code the error handling;
                                    • Increased to 3 the number of attempts the client performs to reconnect to LCDd in case of disconnection;
                                    • Simplified the startup scripts. Now lcdproc_client.sh is not generated/run anymore, since the error handling is managed by the client;
                                    • Changed the startup scripts to run both LCDd then the client as "nice" process;
                                    • Capped the wait time between each client cycle to 5 seconds. It still is calculated as the refresh frequency * the number of screen activated, but now it's capped;
                                    • Increased to 8000 chars the trunk of data received from LCDd;
                                    • Improved the "service stop" script. Now it cycle until LCDd is definitely killed and works even if LCDd is hung;
                                    • Added a "welcome" string on the panel at the LCDd startup;

                                    The new package is versioned 0.9.3, I just made a pull request in order to distribute it…

                                    Please give some feedback (including driver, refresh rate, enabled screens and so on)!

                                    Thanks,
                                    Michele

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                                      Cino last edited by

                                      can't wait to give it test drive :-)

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                                      • stephenw10
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                                        Woot!  ;D

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                                          mdima last edited by

                                          Ops… I found out a little mistake, I cancelled the pull request, will do it tomorrow morning, I swear!

                                          Sorry buddies...

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                                            tix last edited by

                                            @tix:

                                            @mdima:

                                            If you all set only one screen with 0.5.3 and pkg 0.9.2 do you have this problem?

                                            Thanks,
                                            Michele

                                            I'm testing now, using only the "Interface Traffic" screen set to WAN.  It doesn't scroll left/right but obviously updates so the updating activity should tell us something I hope.

                                            Will post an update in about 12 hours.

                                            Well in 24 hours of running, I've had no issues running with only this screen enabled with the "standard" .92 package.

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                                              mdima last edited by

                                              @tix:

                                              Well in 24 hours of running, I've had no issues running with only this screen enabled with the "standard" .92 package.

                                              Hi Tix,
                                                yes, everything worked with 1 screen only, because in that case there were no "extra messages" (activate/ignore/etc.) from LCDd that caused a buffer overflow after some hour.

                                              With the new version of the package we should not have this problem anymore…

                                              Can you confirm it?

                                              Thanks,
                                              Michele

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                                                tix last edited by

                                                I have downloaded the new package and enabled the following screens:
                                                -Uptime
                                                -Load
                                                -States
                                                -Mbuf
                                                -Interface Traffic(WAN)
                                                None of these scroll left/right.

                                                I installed the package and rebooted to have a clean start.  I noticed that load seemed a little higher than usual on startup and took a little bit longer to "calm down" but I'm not entirely sure it's related to LCDproc.

                                                I will post later today or tomorrow if there is anything to report as I'm hoping we have this corrected.  :)

                                                Thanks so much for the effort Michele!!!

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                                                  Cino last edited by

                                                  So far so good.. i'm using the picolcd.so driver, 20x2 display

                                                  The following is enabled:
                                                  Time
                                                  Uptime
                                                  System
                                                  Disk
                                                  Load
                                                  States  (Not sure if other notice, it doesn't show the correct max, always 10000)
                                                  Interfaces (scrolls thru them)
                                                  Mbuf
                                                  Interface Traffic (WAN)

                                                  one day I'll swap to a different case so I can have a 20/4

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                                                  • stephenw10
                                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                                                    Testing now.
                                                    One thing I have noticed that I didn't expect is:

                                                    
                                                    [2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.fire.box]/root(2): ps aux|grep lcd
                                                    root    4965  0.0  0.3  3656  1520  ??  I     8:27PM   0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/lcdproc.sh start
                                                    root    6483  0.0  3.4 46428 17476  ??  SN    8:27PM   0:01.11 /usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/pkg/lcdproc_client.php
                                                    
                                                    

                                                    I didn't expect to see lcdproc.sh running, not that it's a problem.

                                                    Steve

                                                    Edit: I also so that the version of the sdeclcd driver is that with real time process priority set. Is that deliberate? That too should be no problem.

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                                                      mdima last edited by

                                                      Hehe!

                                                      You're welcome Tix, let's see how much this version resists… I didn't have any problems since two days with 2 servers since almost 48h, but we need to share the data to consider it stable.

                                                      on both machines I use as driver sureelect, 1 second refresh, 8 screens on one and just 1 screen on the other one. The other options are left as default...

                                                      Ciao,
                                                      Michele

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                                                        mdima last edited by

                                                        @stephenw10:

                                                        Testing now.
                                                        One thing I have noticed that I didn't expect is:

                                                        
                                                        [2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.fire.box]/root(2): ps aux|grep lcd
                                                        root    4965  0.0  0.3  3656  1520  ??  I     8:27PM   0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/lcdproc.sh start
                                                        root    6483  0.0  3.4 46428 17476  ??  SN    8:27PM   0:01.11 /usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/pkg/lcdproc_client.php
                                                        
                                                        

                                                        I didn't expect to see lcdproc.sh running, not that it's a problem.

                                                        Steve

                                                        Edit: I also so that the version of the sdeclcd driver is that with real time process priority set. Is that deliberate? That too should be no problem.

                                                        Hi Steve,
                                                          well, I removed the "lcdproc_client.sh" script, the one that managed the error counter for the client. lcdproc.sh is the one run to start/stop/restart the package. I honestly don't know why it is still running after it's launched to start the client, but it should not do anything.

                                                        For the sdeclcd driver, we need to ask to fmertz if he asked to update the binary driver under files.pfsense.org, I guess not if it's not the last version. Anyway, probably after this message he will ask to update it.

                                                        Ciao,
                                                        Michele

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                                                          mdima last edited by

                                                          Hi Cino,

                                                          @Cino:

                                                          States  (Not sure if other notice, it doesn't show the correct max, always 10000)
                                                          one day I'll swap to a different case so I can have a 20/4

                                                          on my x86 pfSense 2.0.1 shows correctly 500000. I am afraid some char is hidden, but with a 20x2 display it should not… :S

                                                          Looking at the code, it looks it's able to read $config['system']['maximumstates']. How much did you set?
                                                          If you run on the the command prompt, php console, the following commands (copy/paste both), what result do you get?

                                                          global $config;
                                                          echo($config['system']['maximumstates']);
                                                          

                                                          Thanks,
                                                          Michele

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                                                            tix last edited by

                                                            Not sure what went wrong but I went to add some additional screens and upon clicking save, the log shows the stopping and restarting but then stops again 1 sec later.  This happens each time I enable/disable any screen.

                                                            Log capture:

                                                            
                                                            Feb 10 18:23:42 pfsense LCDd: Client on socket 11 disconnected
                                                            Feb 10 18:23:42 pfsense LCDd: sock_send: socket write error
                                                            Feb 10 18:23:44 pfsense LCDd: Server shutting down on SIGTERM
                                                            Feb 10 18:23:46 pfsense LCDd: LCDd version 0.5.3 starting
                                                            Feb 10 18:23:46 pfsense LCDd: Using Configuration File: /usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf
                                                            Feb 10 18:23:46 pfsense LCDd: Listening for queries on 127.0.0.1:13666
                                                            Feb 10 18:23:47 pfsense LCDd: Server shutting down on SIGTERM
                                                            Feb 10 18:23:58 pfsense php: lcdproc: Failed to connect to LCDd process Operation timed out (60)
                                                            Feb 10 18:24:09 pfsense php: lcdproc: Failed to connect to LCDd process Operation timed out (60)
                                                            Feb 10 18:24:20 pfsense php: lcdproc: Failed to connect to LCDd process Operation timed out (60)
                                                            Feb 10 18:24:31 pfsense php: lcdproc: Failed to connect to LCDd process Operation timed out (60)
                                                            
                                                            

                                                            Trying to restart via the GUI does nothing (which I think is correct functionality) but running the start script from the shell seems to start the process again.

                                                            
                                                            [root@pfsense]/root(2): /bin/sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/lcdproc.sh start
                                                            [root@pfsense]/root(6): ps aux | grep lcd
                                                                    <no results="">[root@pfsense]/root(7): ps aux | grep LCD
                                                            root   25426  0.0  0.5  3524  1280   1  S+    6:25PM   0:00.00 grep LCD
                                                            [root@pfsense]/root(8): clog /var/log/system.log  | grep LCD
                                                             <snip>Feb 10 18:31:25 pfsense LCDd: LCDd version 0.5.3 starting
                                                            Feb 10 18:31:25 pfsense LCDd: Using Configuration File: /usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf
                                                            Feb 10 18:31:25 pfsense LCDd: Listening for queries on 127.0.0.1:13666
                                                            Feb 10 18:31:27 pfsense LCDd: Connect from host 127.0.0.1:49169 on socket 6</snip></no> 
                                                            

                                                            So I'm now running these screens:
                                                            -Time
                                                            -Uptime
                                                            -Disk
                                                            -Load
                                                            -States
                                                            -Mbuf
                                                            -Interface Traffic (WAN)

                                                            and these settings:
                                                            -ComPort=/dev/lpt0
                                                            -Display Size=2x20 display
                                                            -Driver=Firebox SDEC
                                                            -Refresh=5 sec
                                                            -All other settings are "default"

                                                            Also, the Load average is staying higher around between 0.60 and 1.4 where prior to this update it stayed less than 0.80 (even when updating RRD).  Again not sure it's related but I don't think it's anything to worry about.

                                                            Will continue to monitor…

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                                                              Cino last edited by

                                                              the results were blank. I dont have anything set, left it for the system to decide. The dashboard says 299000.. I'll set a value and see what happens. Its been awhile since I looked at the lcdproc code, but I'm thinking there was default 10000 if nothing is set via the gui now that i think about it a little more

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                                                              • stephenw10
                                                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                                                                @tix
                                                                I can see from your logs that you still have 0.53 version of LCDd. So who knows what version of other files you have.
                                                                From my experience the 'reinstall package' button in the GUI does not seem to re download everything.
                                                                I suggest un-installing the package completely, checking for any left over files and then re-installing it.

                                                                Steve

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                                                                  tix last edited by

                                                                  @stephenw10:

                                                                  @tix
                                                                  I can see from your logs that you still have 0.53 version of LCDd. So who knows what version of other files you have.
                                                                  From my experience the 'reinstall package' button in the GUI does not seem to re download everything.
                                                                  I suggest un-installing the package completely, checking for any left over files and then re-installing it.

                                                                  Steve

                                                                  Well aren't I the idiot?  :P  Didn't even notice that….

                                                                  Ok so I've now uninstalled the package, cleaned all the various references to LCDd, lcdproc, sdeclcd.so that the "find" command could locate.  Then I reinstalled the package except LCDd is missing...  Isn't this supplied by the lcdproc-dev package or am I being an idiot again?

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                                                                    mdima last edited by

                                                                    @tix:

                                                                    @stephenw10:

                                                                    @tix
                                                                    I can see from your logs that you still have 0.53 version of LCDd. So who knows what version of other files you have.
                                                                    From my experience the 'reinstall package' button in the GUI does not seem to re download everything.
                                                                    I suggest un-installing the package completely, checking for any left over files and then re-installing it.

                                                                    Steve

                                                                    Well aren't I the idiot?  :P  Didn't even notice that….

                                                                    Ok so I've now uninstalled the package, cleaned all the various references to LCDd, lcdproc, sdeclcd.so that the "find" command could locate.  Then I reinstalled the package except LCDd is missing...  Isn't this supplied by the lcdproc-dev package or am I being an idiot again?

                                                                    Tix, LCDd is inside the package, very strange you don't have it… maybe a reboot between the uninstall and the reinstall could help..

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                                                                      mdima last edited by

                                                                      @Cino:

                                                                      the results were blank. I dont have anything set, left it for the system to decide. The dashboard says 299000.. I'll set a value and see what happens. Its been awhile since I looked at the lcdproc code, but I'm thinking there was default 10000 if nothing is set via the gui now that i think about it a little more

                                                                      Ok, I've understood what happens… if there is nothing set the function just return 10000 as a constant.
                                                                      I will fix this on the new version.

                                                                      Ciao,
                                                                      Michele

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                                                                        mdima last edited by

                                                                        Hi Tix
                                                                        @tix:

                                                                        Also, the Load average is staying higher around between 0.60 and 1.4 where prior to this update it stayed less than 0.80 (even when updating RRD).  Again not sure it's related but I don't think it's anything to worry about.

                                                                        Will continue to monitor…

                                                                        well… as more screens you add, as more the client and LCDd have to work. If you only enable one screen the load should fall. The variables that affect the load are: number of screens, refresh rate.

                                                                        Ciao,
                                                                        Michele

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                                                                          easyhugo last edited by

                                                                          Hi Guys

                                                                          Is it possible to ad this Lcd to

                                                                          http://allnet.de/1577.html?&tx_mmallnetproductplugin_pi1[showUid]=421433&cHash=949c8a38a8
                                                                          ftp://212.18.29.48/ftp/pub/allnet/utility-server/fw8888/lcm_server_1.0.tar.bz2

                                                                          i,m trying this for some time but with no success, see other posts from me

                                                                          thx max

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                                                                            mdima last edited by

                                                                            @easyhugo:

                                                                            Hi Guys

                                                                            Is it possible to ad this Lcd to

                                                                            http://allnet.de/1577.html?&tx_mmallnetproductplugin_pi1[showUid]=421433&cHash=949c8a38a8
                                                                            ftp://212.18.29.48/ftp/pub/allnet/utility-server/fw8888/lcm_server_1.0.tar.bz2

                                                                            i,m trying this for some time but with no success, see other posts from me

                                                                            thx max

                                                                            Hi Max (easyhugo),
                                                                            it's impossible to know for me which driver this LCD panel uses… do you know the chipset? Can it use one of the drivers already made or you need another driver?

                                                                            Ciao,
                                                                            Michele

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                                                                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                                                                              My German is very bad!  :-[ (Only beaten by my non-existant Italian!  ::))

                                                                              However, according to [url=http://www.ipcop-forum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=26948#p231301]this post by IPCop ledgend Wintermute the display in the FW8888 is an LCM-162.

                                                                              This doesn't appear to be supported directly by LCDproc but this blog post seems to show it is possible. That's quite old now so support maybe better integrated.

                                                                              What drivers/versions have you tried?

                                                                              Steve

                                                                              Edit: This post confirms this.

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                                                                                tix last edited by

                                                                                @mdima:

                                                                                Tix, LCDd is inside the package, very strange you don't have it… maybe a reboot between the uninstall and the reinstall could help..

                                                                                I've tried multiple times to get LCDd to install and all fail.  I must have broken something with the various versions and/or updates.  I'll try a clean install later this weekend maybe….

                                                                                In any case, I have the updated files now.  I did a clean install to VMware Player and installed the package and then scp'd the file over to my real pfsense.

                                                                                So far so good as I've exceeded my 10 hour limit and everything is working with the screens and settings I mentioned in the previous post.

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                                                                                  mdima last edited by

                                                                                  @tix:

                                                                                  So far so good as I've exceeded my 10 hour limit and everything is working with the screens and settings I mentioned in the previous post.

                                                                                  hehe! on my machines I am running it from thursday with a refresh of 1second, and it's still working great… maybe I am too much optimist, but I think we made it... ;) at least for this specific problem!

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                                                                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                                                                                    Yes I think you have definitely solved the LCDd 100% problem. 48hours+ for me on two boxes running sdeclcd driver, 1second refresh, and screens: time, uptime and load.
                                                                                    Looking good.  :)

                                                                                    However I think the other problem is still present.
                                                                                    At boot or restarting packages when an IP change is detected the lcdproc package ends up being started and stopped multiple times. Before this could result in multiple clients running. I think this has been solved thanks to your kill loop. However today I switched on my resurected X-Core box and at the end of boot the LCDd daemon is running twice but with no client!  :-\

                                                                                    
                                                                                    [2.0.1-RELEASE][root@x-core.localdomain]/root(2): ps aux | grep lcd
                                                                                    root   17691  0.0  0.6  3656  1356  ??  IN    4:21PM   0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/lcdproc.sh start
                                                                                    [2.0.1-RELEASE][root@x-core.localdomain]/root(3): ps aux | grep LCD
                                                                                    root   24707  0.0  0.5  3352  1148  ??  IN    4:21PM   0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/LCDd -c /usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf
                                                                                    nobody 24902  0.0  0.6  3368  1408  ??  SNs   4:21PM   0:00.21 /usr/local/sbin/LCDd -c /usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf
                                                                                    
                                                                                    

                                                                                    Here is the relavent section of the boot log:

                                                                                    
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:22:33 	apinger: Error while feeding rrdtool: Broken pipe
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:52 	LCDd: Listening for queries on 127.0.0.1:13666
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:52 	LCDd: Using Configuration File: /usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:52 	LCDd: LCDd version 0.5.5 starting
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:49 	LCDd: Server shutting down on SIGTERM
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:49 	LCDd: Listening for queries on 127.0.0.1:13666
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:49 	LCDd: Using Configuration File: /usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:49 	LCDd: LCDd version 0.5.5 starting
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:47 	php: lcdproc: Sync: End package sync
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:47 	php: lcdproc: Sync: Begin package sync
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:47 	LCDd: Server shutting down on SIGTERM
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:47 	php: lcdproc: Sync: End package sync
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:45 	LCDd: sock_send: socket write error
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:45 	LCDd: sock_send: socket write error
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:45 	LCDd: sock_send: socket write error
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:45 	LCDd: Client on socket 11 disconnected
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:45 	php: lcdproc: Sync: Restarting the service
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:45 	php: lcdproc: Sync: Begin package sync
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:45 	php: : Restarting/Starting all packages.
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:42 	check_reload_status: Reloading filter
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:42 	LCDd: Connect from host 127.0.0.1:11554 on socket 11
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:42 	sshlockout[51329]: sshlockout/webConfigurator v3.0 starting up
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:42 	login: login on console as root
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:41 	php: lcdproc: Start client procedure. Error counter: (0)
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:40 	php: : IPSEC: One or more IPsec tunnel endpoints has changed its IP. Refreshing.
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:40 	LCDd: Listening for queries on 127.0.0.1:13666
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:40 	LCDd: Using Configuration File: /usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:40 	LCDd: LCDd version 0.5.5 starting
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:39 	check_reload_status: Starting packages
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:39 	php: : pfSense package system has detected an ip change 0.0.0.0 -> ... Restarting packages.
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:39 	php: : OpenNTPD is starting up.
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:39 	dnsmasq[44759]: ignoring nameserver 127.0.0.1 - local interface
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:39 	dnsmasq[44759]: ignoring nameserver 127.0.0.1 - local interface
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:39 	dnsmasq[44759]: using nameserver 192.168.1.1#53
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:39 	dnsmasq[44759]: reading /etc/resolv.conf
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:39 	php: : The command '/usr/bin/killall 'ntpd'' returned exit code '1', the output was 'killall: warning: kill -TERM 51784: No such process'
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:38 	php: : Creating rrd update script
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:38 	php: : Resyncing OpenVPN instances for interface WAN.
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:38 	php: lcdproc: Sync: End package sync
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:38 	php: lcdproc: Sync: Begin package sync
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:38 	php: lcdproc: Sync: End package sync
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:38 	php: lcdproc: Sync: Begin package sync
                                                                                    Feb 12 16:21:38 	php: : Restarting/Starting all packages.
                                                                                    
                                                                                    

                                                                                    It ends up starting and stopping 3 times.

                                                                                    Restarting the service again manually brings it back to normal.

                                                                                    Steve

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