>
>From: discuss-gnuradio-bounces+sean.nowlan=gtri.gatech....@gnu.org 
>[mailto:discuss-gnuradio-bounces+sean.nowlan=gtri.gatech....@gnu.org] On 
>Behalf Of Nowlan, Sean
>Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 4:10 PM
>To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org
>Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-ctrlport-monitor timeout exception
>
>I'm using ControlPort to monitor transmissions through a USRP. I have a 
>flowgraph responsible for generating burst traffic and streaming to a 
>uhd_sink. Then I have a uhd_source tuned to the same frequency as the 
>uhd_sink, and I connect it to a ctrlport_probe2_c block with length=128. I 
>have ControlPort support compiled-in and enabled from a config file. I'm able 
>to connect to a remotely running flowgraph using gr-ctrlport-monitor and plot 
>the PSD of the "samples" vector pulled from the probe2 block every 100 
>milliseconds. The problem is that after (what seems to be) a nondeterministic 
>time, the ICE port stops responding and gr-ctrlport-monitor reports an error:
>
>ctrlport-monitor: radio.get threw exception (exception 
>::Ice::ConnectTimeoutException
>{
>}).
>
>When I close and restart, gr-ctrlport-monitor times out and segfaults:
>
>2013-11-11 16:02:47.329422 /usr/local/bin/gr-ctrlport-monitor: error: 
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/Ice.py", line 984, in main
>    status = self.doMain(args, initData)
>  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/Ice.py", line 1031, in doMain
>    return self.run(args)
>  File 
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnuradio/ctrlport/IceRadioClient.py", 
> line 97, in run
>    radio = self.getRadio(host, port)
>  File 
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnuradio/ctrlport/IceRadioClient.py", 
> line 36, in getRadio
>    radio = GNURadio.ControlPortPrx.checkedCast(base)
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnuradio_ice.py", line 1257, in 
> checkedCast
>    return _M_gnuradio.ctrlport.GNURadio.ControlPortPrx.ice_checkedCast(proxy, 
> '::GNURadio::ControlPort', facetOrCtx, _ctx)
>ConnectTimeoutException: exception ::Ice::ConnectTimeoutException
>{
>}
>
>Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
>So there are two issues to note here:
>    -    Something in the ICE instance is breaking on the GNU Radio flowgraph 
> side. The port is still open; it just times out. Trying to instantiate 
> gr-ctrlport-monitor to an incorrect port just says "connection refused," as 
> expected.
>    -    gr-ctrlport-monitor is not robust to connection-related errors like 
> timeouts or refused connections.
>
>Is there any advice of what I can turn on or enable in GNU Radio or my 
>flowgraph to debug the first problem? I can live with the second problem as 
>long as I can make sure ICE doesn't break on me.
>
>Thanks,
>Sean

Sorry for getting antsy about this, but I'm really not sure how to go about 
debugging ICE server stuff. It seems like it's buried pretty deeply in 
gnuradio-runtime. Where's the best place to start looking to find out why the 
ICE server stops responding?

Sean
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