cRIO Drops connection after deploy

[Greg McKaskle]

I would suggest connecting up a serial cable or running netconsole to see what is going to the console. That sounds like your cRIO may be crashing either during deploy or shortly after.

Greg McKaskle

[DominickC]

Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle

I would suggest connecting up a serial cable or running netconsole to see what is going to the console. That sounds like your cRIO may be crashing either during deploy or shortly after.

Greg McKaskle

And what would I be looking for?

Alan -

I've tried both using the large "FINISH" button on the front panel of RobotMain, as well as the stop icon next to the run icon in the LabVIEW toolbar above the VI.

When I say "switch to the Driver Station", I am referring to the application. I switch from RobotMain to the 2013 Driver Station.

I have not tried waiting before switching, but I will try tomorrow.

[Greg McKaskle]

If you look at the console during boot, it is similar to what you'll see on a linux console or a DOS console. The stream of text will tell you that is is booting, some components and some version numbers, and at some point will stop changing.

Then if you have an error at the driver or OS level, it will print out details about the error -- very useful.

If it crashes, it will often tell you the library name, maybe an address or reason for the crash -- also very useful.

Sometimes it crashes and doesn't tell you anything, but you see the boot sequence and know for certain that it crashed.

Greg McKaskle

[DominickC]

I assume I have to reformat the cRIO to enable the NetConsole?

[Mark McLeod]

If you didn't make that selection when you first imaged the cRIO, then yes you have to go back and click the box so the netconsole part of the image gets downloaded to the cRIO.

[Alan Anderson]

Enabling NetConsole doesn't require reformatting the cRIO. You just have to run the Imaging Tool and apply the appropriate selection.

[DominickC]

Ah, gotcha. I'll have to do this Tuesday/Wednesday...we were just given the chassis to populate with various electronic components and wires.

Dom