Switching between Normal, Daylight, and Simulation is unreliable. Sometimes the Scheduler will come up saying it is in Simulate mode but will connect to ACP. YOu have to change to Normal, exit, restart, change to Simulator, exit, restart to get it into Simulation.

REOPENED



See this Comm Center thread by Steve Reilly with Jeff Herman. Somehow I have left yet another sequence hole that can result in things getting mixed up. 

 

  
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rbdenny
 
 

  
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svn+ssh://rbdenny@a2_svn_dc3/home/rbdenny/svn/astro/scheduler
 
 

  
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Affected files
  
/trunk/Help/NoteworthyConfigOptions.html (Modified)
/trunk/Help/RelNotes.htm (Modified)
/trunk/Scheduler/Clock.cs (Modified)
/trunk/Scheduler/Engine.cs (Modified)
/trunk/Scheduler/HttpServer.cs (Modified)
/trunk/Scheduler/MainForm.cs (Modified)

 
 

  
Check-in comment
  
At long last, stomp out the simulation/real-time switching bug. Improve clock mode logging. Fix stupid misspelling in a logged message in the HttpServer module, no logic changes. 
GEM:508

 

Another with Tolga Guver. However, this time I was able to capture a Profile file Scheduler.exe.xml with which I could duplicate the problem here. HOORAY!!!! It turns out to be a disconnect between the engine/sequencer (sim, day/night, mormal) and the clock/real time. Turns out that the Profile data was being loaded after the clock was initialized. Reversing the order fixed it. I had to move the logging of the efficiency coefficients until after the Profile and Clock were set because the logger requires the Clock object to be initialized.

Another with Stacey Mills

Another with Jeff Herman, Gad!!

Another with Peter Hannah.

Another adventure with this and Javier de Elias. Will I ever find this?

OK, now Dean Salman got nailed with this. It's still there ?!?!?



REOPENED

Saw this at Tom Kracji's. When it happens, it looks like the dispatcher is in Simulated mode but if you look at the settings file Scheduler.exe.xml, you'll see that the engine/sequencer value is still 2 (ACP) and not 1 (simulator)! Next time it comes up with the simulated clock but also brings up ACP. After a couple of cycles of this all of a sudden it will write 1 to
engine/sequencer and it will work OK. Then you can switch back and forth OK!!!

Dang it! an hour trying to make it goof up in the debugger... working perfectly.

Saw it today in switching from Simulator to Day/Night ACP. It didn't change the sequencer!

Dang it! Can't repro this now. Will wait till it bites me and attack it right then.