On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:31 AM, bob wole <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:44 AM, Tom Rondeau <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 2:07 AM, bob wole <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
>>> Gnuradio 3.7.8rc1
>>>
>>>
>>> I am running this flowgraph "fecapi_async_to_stream.grc" that comes with
>>> gr-fec. After running for a while following error always show up
>>>
>>> ....
>>> ....
>>> DEBUG: 16384, 560, 272
>>> DEBUG: 16384, 560, 272
>>> FATAL: Missing a required length tag on port 0 at item #14965440
>>> thread[thread-per-block[7]: <block fec_tagged_decoder (7)>]: Missing
>>> length tag.
>>>
>>> The only thing that changes is the item#.
>>> Testing further ....
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bob
>>>
>>
>> Bob,
>>
>> You led us down a buggy path on that one. This, I'm pretty sure, is
>> related to Richard Bell's problem for a few weeks ago where adding a time
>> sink caused problems in his data stream. I have to say, I kind of dismissed
>> that as impossible, but nope, it's a real problem.
>>
>> The problem isn't with the GUI sinks; you can replace them with null
>> sinks and you get the same problem. It's a race condition in our tag
>> pruning method that was changed in 3.7.6. We have a patch that we're
>> putting in now that will be part of 3.7.8.
>>
>> The patch goes backwards a bit to how tag pruning was originally done.
>> However, with the map, we no longer have to restart the iterator at begin()
>> like we used to, and we can terminate early, so this should still be much
>> faster than the original.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>
> Tom,
>
> Thanks for the update. Which block exactly is causing this? Should I wait
> for version 3.7.8 then?
>
>
> --
> Bob
>


It's not a block, it was in how the scheduler was handling tags.

The patch was applied to the master branch yesterday, and 3.7.8 will be out
shortly.

Tom
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