Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Issues with Pybombs and Package Manager Install on Ubuntu 16.04

[Martin Braun]

Dave,

if you've fixed one issue, please start a new thread for the next issue.
As for your q's:

On 07/07/2016 04:37 PM, Dave wrote:
> One more question however, should I run volk_profile or did the pybombs
> install already take care of that?

pybombs does not run volk_profile for you (it used to do that; we'll
need some clean way to reenable that).

> One more comment, it seemed previously I could just type the python
> script names our click on a script in my file manager.  Now I need to
> precede the scripts with ./ and clicking on scripts in the file manager
> no longer executes them.  Again I will do more homework on my own.

The ./ is necessary for files not in your path. The file manager thing
probably fails because the PyBOMBS environment is not available for the
file manager.

M

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> Thanks again for all your help.
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
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> 
> Generating:
> '/home/dave/pybombsprefix1/share/gnuradio/examples/uhd/uhd_wbfm_receive.py'
> 
> Executing: /usr/bin/python2 -u
> /home/dave/pybombsprefix1/share/gnuradio/examples/uhd/uhd_wbfm_receive.py
> 
> linux; GNU C++ version 5.3.1 20160413; Boost_105800;
> UHD_003.010.000.git-0-ef57ffcb
> 
> -- USRP-B100 clock control: 10
> 
> -- r_counter: 2
> 
> -- a_counter: 0
> 
> -- b_counter: 20
> 
> -- prescaler: 8
> 
> -- vco_divider: 5
> 
> -- chan_divider: 5
> 
> -- vco_rate: 1600.000000MHz
> 
> -- chan_rate: 320.000000MHz
> 
> -- out_rate: 64.000000MHz
> 
> -- 
> 
> UHD Warning:
> 
> Unable to set the thread priority. Performance may be negatively affected.
> 
> Please see the general application notes in the manual for instructions.
> 
> EnvironmentError: OSError: error in pthread_setschedparam
> 
> gr::log :INFO: audio source - Audio sink arch: alsa
> 
> Volk warning: no arch found, returning generic impl
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> *From:*Derek Kozel [mailto:address@hidden
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 07, 2016 2:58 PM
> *To:* Dave
> *Cc:* Martin Braun; GNURadio Discussion List
> *Subject:* Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Issues with Pybombs and Package
> Manager Install on Ubuntu 16.04
> 
>  
> 
> Hello Dave,
> 
> Here are the instructions for setting up USB permissions on Linux.
> http://files.ettus.com/manual/page_transport.html#transport_usb_udev
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Derek
> 
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> 
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Dave <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Martin.
> 
> I successfully deleted UHD and I believe successfully installed gnuradio
> et el using pybombs.  I then ran setup_env.sh.
> 
> However now I cannot seem to connect to the B100.
> 
> I ran uhd_find_devices and followed the instructions to download images
> as per the transcript that follows.  Was PyBombs supposed to take care
> of downloading the images?  If not, it seems the pybombs instructions
> should tell one to do so.
> 
> In any event per the following transcript it now appears I have a
> permission issue to access my USB ports.    Any advice as to what to do
> next?
> 
> Thanks,  Dave
> 
> Transcript of error follows.............................
> 
> address@hidden:~/pybombsprefix1$ . ./setup_env.sh
> 
> address@hidden:~/pybombsprefix1/bin$ uhd_find_devices
> 
> linux; GNU C++ version 5.3.1 20160413; Boost_105800;
> UHD_003.010.000.git-0-ef57ffcb
> 
>  
> 
> UHD Warning:
> 
>     Could not locate B100 firmware. Please run:
> 
>      "/home/dave/pybombsprefix1/lib/uhd/utils/uhd_images_downloader.py"
> 
> No UHD Devices Found
> 
> address@hidden:~/pybombsprefix1/bin$
> /home/dave/pybombsprefix1/lib/uhd/utils/uhd_images_downloader.py
> 
> Images destination:      /home/dave/pybombsprefix1/share/uhd/images
> 
> Downloading images from:
> http://files.ettus.com/binaries/images/uhd-images_003.010.git-197-g053111dc.zip
> 
> Downloading images to:  
> /tmp/tmpi2vldX/uhd-images_003.010.git-197-g053111dc.zip
> 
> 52600 kB / 52600 kB (100%)
> 
> Images successfully installed to: /home/dave/pybombsprefix1/share/uhd/images
> 
> address@hidden:~/pybombsprefix1/bin$ uhd_find_devices
> 
> linux; GNU C++ version 5.3.1 20160413; Boost_105800;
> UHD_003.010.000.git-0-ef57ffcb
> 
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> UHD Error:
> 
>     USB open failed: insufficient permissions.
> 
>     See the application notes for your device.
> 
> No UHD Devices Found
> 
> End of transcript.......................
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discuss-gnuradio
> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf
> Of Martin Braun
> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2016 10:05 AM
> To: address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Issues with Pybombs and Package Manager
> Install on Ubuntu 16.04
> 
> On 07/06/2016 11:53 PM, Dave wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Martin.  I have changed my subscription to individual messages.
> 
>> 
> 
>> I ran the command you mentioned below and attached the result.  I’m 
> 
>> not sure if I should delete all the entries listed or even why I get 
> 
>> all the “permission denied” messages.  As you will see I executed the 
> 
>> command both with and without “sudo”.
> 
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>> address@hidden:~$ find / -name multi_usrp.hpp
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>> find: ‘/sys/kernel/debug’: Permission denied
> 
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>> /usr/include/uhd/usrp/multi_usrp.hpp
> 
> Here's the culprit. You still have an old UHD installed. Remove that and
> start from scratch.
> 
> M
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