Hi David, 

the version string printed by benchmark_rate shows that you've also got
an old UHD 3.10.3.0 installation on your system.

Make sure there's only one installation of UHD.

Best regards,
Marcus

On Thu, 2019-09-19 at 16:55 -0400, David Smay via USRP-users wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently did a clean installation of UHD 3.14.1 and gnuradio
> 3.7.13.5 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, following the steps outlined in the
> Ettus knowledge base for installation from source.
> 
> The installation worked great, and I started experimenting with the
> example programs installed with UHD (located in
> /usr/lib/uhd/examples/).  At first they ran correctly and I was able
> to run the gpio and benchmark_rate programs without issue, getting
> the normal expected output for my b205mini-i.
> 
> Without making any changes to the system, and in the same shell
> session, all of a sudden the example programs all started
> consistently generating errors when I tried to run them:
> 
> dsmay4@UbuntuPrecision7530:/usr/lib/uhd/examples$ ./benchmark_rate --
> rx_rate 10e6
> linux; GNU C++ version 7.3.0; Boost_106501; UHD_003.010.003.000-0-
> unknown
> 
> 
> 
> UHD Warning:
>     EnvironmentError: IOError: Could not find path for image:
> usrp_b200_fw.hex
>     Using images directory: <no images directory located>
>     Set the environment variable 'UHD_IMAGES_DIR' appropriately or
> follow the below instructions to download the images package.
>     Please run:
>      "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/uhd/utils/uhd_images_downloader.py"
> Creating the usrp device with: ...
> 
> UHD Warning:
>     EnvironmentError: IOError: Could not find path for image:
> usrp_b200_fw.hex
>     Using images directory: <no images directory located>
>     Set the environment variable 'UHD_IMAGES_DIR' appropriately or
> follow the below instructions to download the images package.
>     Please run:
>      "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/uhd/utils/uhd_images_downloader.py"
> Error: LookupError: KeyError: No devices found for ----->
> Empty Device Address
> 
> This is quite strange as my uhd_images_downloader isn't installed to
> that directory, but it does run just fine.  uhd_find_devices and
> uhd_usrp_probe run fine and indicate no problems with the radio
> itself.  Other sdr apps using the b205 work just fine - the problem
> seems to only impact these example programs.
> 
> I tried rebooting, as well as uninstalling and reinstalling UHD
> (which reinstalled the example programs) but the problem persists. 
> I'm mostly interested in figuring out what caused the spontaneous
> change in system behavior.  I can't for the life of me figure out why
> just these apps can't find the fpga images but everything else works
> just fine...
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Dave
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