Re: [OctDev] Alpha release of Serial I/O package (v0.1)

[Juan P. C. <car...@if...>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Andrius Sutas <and...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Juan,
>
> that is really strange. I fired up an Ubuntu VM (vmware) based on your
> previous post for testing:
>
> andrew@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
> Release: 10.04
> Codename: lucid
> andrew@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
> Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-42-generic #95-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 25 15:56:09 UTC 2012
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> andrew@ubuntu:~$ gcc --version
> gcc (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1) 4.4.3
> andrew@ubuntu:~$ octave --version
> GNU Octave, version 3.2.3
>
> Everything works as expected: http://pastebin.com/E9DMVeVt
>
> What I noticed is that it takes a few seconds to open the interface in VM,
> which happens virtually instantaneously on my host (Arch Linux, Kernel
> 3.4.8), need to investigate if that is distribution or VM related.
>
> Could you provide more details about your environment for further debugging?
> Also, is there any related output to dmesg when octave hangs?
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal <car...@if...>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Andrius Sutas <and...@gm...>
>> wrote:
>> > s = serial(sif, 115200, 0); srl_flush(s) ; srl_write(s, "Hello!"); sleep
>> > (
>> > 0.2 ); tic(); [data, count] = srl_read(s, 10); toc(); char(data), count,
>> > srl_close(s);
>>
>> Hi Andrius,
>>
>> I tested the new version of the package you send (and the one in svn)
>> and all examples except the first one hang my Octave completely. It
>> seems the timeout is not working here. To cancel execution I have to
>> do twice Ctrl-C (this closes Octave).
>>
>> What can it be?
>>
>>
>> --
>> M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
>> -----
>> PhD Student
>> University of Zürich
>> http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/
>
>

Hi,
Sorry, I am running 10.10

$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:	core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 10.10
Release:	10.10
Codename:	maverick

Please, suggest any test that I can run to help solving the problem.

-- 
M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
-----
PhD Student
University of Zürich
http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/