Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Following the docs at 

http://epics-pvdata.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/epics-pvdata/masarService/raw-file/tip/documentation/userManual.html#installation

I installed masar.

The installation is relatively smooth.

But when I try to start the server and then the client, I get 

"Cannot connect to MASSAR server. Please .... "

Client and server are running on the same machine.

epics2@cr1dev1 $ ./bin/linux-x86_64/masarServiceRun MASARSERVICE:TEST:EXAMPLE

VERSION : pvAccess Server v1.2-SNAPSHOT

PROVIDER_NAMES : pvService

BEACON_ADDR_LIST : 

AUTO_BEACON_ADDR_LIST : 1

BEACON_PERIOD : 15

BROADCAST_PORT : 5076

SERVER_PORT : 5075

RCV_BUFFER_SIZE : 16384

IGNORE_ADDR_LIST: 

STATE : INITIALIZED

===Starting channel RPC server: MASARSERVICE:TEST:EXAMPLE

===Use CTRl-D or exit() command to stop MASARSERVICE:TEST:EXAMPLE server.

masarService>

The server seems to be running correctly. 

In another terminal, I start the pyqt client

epics2@cr1dev1 $ python masar MASARSERVICE:TEST:EXAMPLE

Which returns the 'cannot connect' error message...

I tried connecting with the API

epics2@cr1dev1 $ python 

Python 2.7.3 (default, Jul 24 2012, 11:41:40) 

[GCC 4.6.3 20120306 (Red Hat 4.6.3-2)] on linux2

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> import sys

>>> from masarclient import masarClient

>>> from masarclient.channelRPC import epicsExit

>>> channel='MASARSERVICE:TEST:EXAMPLE'

>>> mc = masarClient.client(channelname = channel)

>>> result = mc.retrieveSystemList()

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

  File "/home/local/epics/middleware/4.20130201/masarService/python/masarclient/masarClient.py", line 70, in retrieveSystemList

    nttable = self.__clientRPC(function, params)

  File "/home/local/epics/middleware/4.20130201/masarService/python/masarclient/masarClient.py", line 42, in __clientRPC

    if not channelRPC.waitConnect(1.0) :

  File "/home/local/epics/middleware/4.20130201/masarService/python/masarclient/channelRPC.py", line 75, in waitConnect

    result = channelRPCPy._waitConnect(self.cppPvt,timeout);

SystemError: error return without exception set

It seems that the server and clients cannot see each others.

Am I missing something?

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Emmanuel