Hi,
I have a problem of the PlcThread not running.
Everything has compiled without errors and the runtime monitor indicates that Proview is running. However the PlcThread LoopCnt remains at 0 so nothing works.
The first PlcPgm FirstScan action does initiate but but loop obviously stops before completion. There are no error messages except 'failed to set priority, plc thread 100 ms, prio 22' but fixing this with chown and chmod makes no difference.
Both Alarm and Halt CycleSup DetectCount are counting at 1 s. ScanTime is set at 100 ms
There's an error somewhere but I can't find it.
Any ideas?

Stephen

Hi Stephen,
I had this problem in the past.
Follow the Claes advice...

There is an example of how to make it possible to set priority on the plc. You probably have to to this every time you build the node.

> su
> ls -l plc_aristotle_0999_plc
-rwxrwxr-x 1 pwrp pwrp 6156906 Jul 5 13:25 plc_aristotle_0999_plc
> chown root plc_aristotle_0999_plc
> chmod u+s plc_aristotle_0999_plc
> ls -l plc_aristotle_0999_plc
-rwsrwxr-x 1 root pwrp 6156906 Jul 5 13:25 plc_aristotle_0999_plc

The real time priority can be displayed with ps, eg

> ps -eTo pid,pri,rtprio,comm

/Claes

I hope this solve your problem.
/Ben

Thanks Ben,
I already tried this as I'd had Claes' advice some years ago to set the plc priority but it hasn't made any difference.
Not sure what to do next.
Stephen

Hi,
I'm getting this message every time I start pwra

(wb:32469): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:19:47.629: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",

Can this be stopping the PlcThread running?

Stephen

Hi Stephen,

Is the plc process still present or has it terminated? Check with 'ps x' if it's running. If it has terminated it's usually because of some erroneous array index or pointer in a CArithm or DataArithm, and in case you can run the plc in the debugger to see where it terminates.

/Claes

Thank you Claes,
I had an erroneous pointer in a function object. All compiled ok but the plc terminated on the first scan.
Stephen