Keeping Kyma Alive

BobTheDog · Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:20 am Post subject:

25 hours and still running......

How did your test go Jan, still running?

blue hell · Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:24 am Post subject:

Last night I had like 70 hours on the clock ... didnt check this morning (was late for work Wink

). Will be home again soon ...

blue hell · Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 12:40 pm Post subject:

96 hours now.

BobTheDog · Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:17 pm Post subject:

I take it thats the longest you have seen then?

So it looks like either the audio or the network may be causing your issues.

Up to 30 hours here, everything seems fine so far....

blue hell · Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 3:24 pm Post subject:

Yeah longest I ever saw, prolly will let it run a bit longer just to be sure.

blue hell · Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 3:26 pm Post subject:

30 hours with the tc connected is something I never had I guess ...

blue hell · Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:47 pm Post subject:

it now ran for 01:20:00 .. it cant even display it ran for 100+ hours Confused

BobTheDog · Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 10:22 pm Post subject:

You are pushing the envelope Jan!

38 hours here and chugging away still....

BobTheDog · Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 11:08 pm Post subject:

Also Jan how have you got your firewire linked up?

I Have:

Mac 800 -> Pacarana 800 (left port looking from back)
Pacarana 800 -> Konnekt 400

BobTheDog · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:25 am Post subject:

Also can you type the following in the terminal and past the results here:

system_profiler SPFireWireDataType SPNetworkDataType

cheers

Andy

BobTheDog · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:56 am Post subject:

50 hours....

blue hell · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:57 am Post subject:

I have the same linkup, well not now, but when I have it Laughing

blue hell · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:00 am Post subject:

Firewire just shows pacarana, Network shows BlueTooth, Ethernet, Firewire, Airport, Bluetooth PAN - all being off as in having no IP address assigned to them.

blue hell · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:13 am Post subject:

Ok, I have an older XML dump, it then had the TC connected and WIFI was on ... http://bluehell.electro-music.com/small_stuff/labtobbe4.spx.xml those should be the only changes .. oh and some less software running now, but otherwise the same info seems to be in there too.

BobTheDog · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:33 pm Post subject:

I Just weaned to look at some version numbers, but our OSes are so out of kilter it isn't much use Sad

One thing that might be worth trying is deleting your FW network device in System Preferences->Network although I am sure that is nothing to do with anything.

My guess is that mine is going to keep running here which doesn't help much!

I can keep it running till the weekend when I am going to have to move stuff around again.

I surpose you have to gradually re-introduce stuff till it stops working, it is a bit of a bugger it takes quite a time to fail for you, makes testing different setups a bit of a pain.

blue hell · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:36 pm Post subject:

BobTheDog · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:29 pm Post subject:

And I was wrong, Just got up and it looks dead, 58 hours on the clock. Front panel looks good and responds but I have no audio.

I will get a coffee and see whats going on....

BobTheDog · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:08 pm Post subject:

OK here is what I see.

There is no sound.

The pacarana seems fine, the front panel is responding.

One of the DSP chips is at 44% so I would say it is still running the patch, the I/O % is rangineing between 20-75%, the case temp has dropped 1 degree from how it was when everything was working fine.

The VCS controls are working but the dice is not having any effect.

The DSP Status window is dead.

Kyma itself is responding and looks fine, I recycled memory and that worked.

Then I did the old CTRL/SHIFT Status to get the log and the "Please turn on or connect your Kyma signal processor" appeared, clicking on OK just brings this dialog back after a while.

After a while of doing this I got "The Pacarana is not responding Unhandled bus reset or a firewire error. (22)

So now I disconnect both firewire cables from the back of the pacarana and re-connect them. I set up the K48 from the front panel, At this point the kyma reconnects ok and the DSP figure goes down to 1% so it looks like it has been initialised in some way.

Now I try to get debug log again, it seems to be working on it……..

BobTheDog · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:14 pm Post subject:

Still got the spinning watch, got a feeling I am not getting a debug log out of this...

BobTheDog · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:16 pm Post subject:

Spoke too soon, got a log 8.5MB so looks good, I will contact Symbolic and send it to them mentioning your name.

BobTheDog · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:22 pm Post subject:

Ok, email sent, I have included you on it.

Interestingly I can run the patch again after reconnecting the firewire cables, I did not have to power cycle!

blue hell · Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:39 am Post subject:

I'm not alone Laughing

BobTheDog · Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 5:12 am Post subject:

If we both badger them we might get it sorted Smile

blue hell · Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:25 am Post subject:

Meanwhile I got a message from symbolic sound that they stopped testing after 50 hours because they needed the computer for something else .. it looks like they are just finding me a silly fool to want this thing to be reliable over weeks instead of days.

BobTheDog · Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:28 am Post subject:

I have had no reply from them yet.

Did you get the email I sent them?