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*** drc-soft troubleshooting ***
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  o TCP configured port problem
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bbr-dev100|boot/apps/drc-soft-test>boot/start_standalone.cmd
#!./bin/Linux24SL3_i386_gcc323/soft_drc_mon
epicsEnvSet(EPICS_CA_SERVER_PORT, "5068")
epicsEnvSet(EPICS_CA_AUTO_ADDR_LIST, "NO")
(...)
############################################################################
###  EPICS IOC CORE built on May  3 2005
###  EPICS R3.14.7 $R3-14-7$ $2004/12/06 22:31:52$
############################################################################
cas warning: Configured TCP port was unavailable.
cas warning: Using dynamically assigned TCP port 42252,
cas warning: but now two or more servers share the same UDP port.
cas warning: Depending on your IP kernel this server may not be
cas warning: reachable with UDP unicast (a host's IP in EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST)
CAS: UDP server port bind error was "Address already in use"
iocInit: All initialization complete
(...)
epics> filename="../../../src/libCom/taskwd/taskwd.c" line number=170
task 0x8884e30 suspended

This means that someone is already using the port 5068 (set at the beginning
of the boot). To check that (and also identify the "culprid"), log on the same
 machine and try:

lsof | grep 5068

To get rid of the problem, the simpler is to use another IR2 subnet machine to
start the soft IOC in standalone mode.

Nicolas Arnaud, 2006/08/13