Troubleshooting

Slow running and latency behavior

symptoms

Phoebus is slow or nearly freezing when there are a lot of views opened
or when a view is connected to a lot of process variables.

procedure

Increase the Java Heap Size allocation. It works for any Java Application (Eclipse, CS-Studio …)
Edit launching scripts phoebus.sh or phoebus.bat
and configure JVM options Xms and Xmx (Java Heap Minimum Size and Java Heap Maximum Size)
java -Xms2048m -Xmx2048m

Impossible to run Phoebus under linux

symptoms

If you get the following error message:
/bin/java : permission denied
or
Error initializing QuantumRenderer: no suitable pipeline found
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error initializing QuantumRenderer: no suitable pipeline found
  at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumRenderer.getInstance(QuantumRenderer.java:283)
  at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.init(QuantumToolkit.java:253)
  at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.getToolkit(Toolkit.java:268)
  at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.startup(PlatformImpl.java:291)
  at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.startup(PlatformImpl.java:163)
  at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.startToolkit(LauncherImpl.java:659)
  at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(LauncherImpl.java:679)
  at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication$2(LauncherImpl.java:196)
  at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:831)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error initializing QuantumRenderer: no suitable pipeline found
  at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumRenderer$PipelineRunnable.init(QuantumRenderer.java:95)
  at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumRenderer$PipelineRunnable.run(QuantumRenderer.java:125)
  ... 1 more
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: No toolkit found
  at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.getToolkit(Toolkit.java:280)
  at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.startup(PlatformImpl.java:291)
  at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.startup(PlatformImpl.java:163)
  at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.startToolkit(LauncherImpl.java:659)
  at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(LauncherImpl.java:679)
  at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication$2(LauncherImpl.java:196)
  at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:831)

procedure

Change the jdk and javafx folders rights :
chmod -R 755 Phoebus_install

Choose OS target when building Phoebus

symptoms

Phoebus is built on an OS (Linux for instance) but will run on another one (Windows for instance)

procedure

It is possible to do a cross-build by specifying -Djavafx.platform=<os> on the Maven command line, where os is linux, win or mac.

Cannot modify Phoebus layout anymore

symptoms

Impossible to close some views or replace them, even after restarting Phoebus.

procedure

All the view settings are stored in a file named memento.
To reset all the settings, you must delete this file :

  • under linux : /home/user/.phoebus/memento

  • under windows : C:\users\.phoebus\memento

Start alarm services without the console

symptoms

Phoebus Alarm Server or Phoebus Alarm Logger starts with a console.

procedure

The services can also be started without any prompt.
Start the service with -noshell argument
#Phoebus alarm server
ExecStart=/opt/alarm-phoebus-server/current/alarm-server.sh -settings ${SERVER}/settings.ini -config ${CONFIG} -noshell

#Phoebus alarm logger
ExecStart=/opt/alarm-logger/current/alarm-logger.sh -properties ./application.properties -noshell

No PV found by Alarm Server

symptoms

Phoebus Alarm Server does not find any PV.

procedure

Phoebus Alarm Server doesn’t use the environment variable EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST.
It uses the parameter org.phoebus.pv.ca/addr_list in settings.ini to find the Channel Access list.
The path to the settings.ini can be given by the –settings argument
ExecStart=/opt/alarm-phoebus-server/current/alarm-server.sh -settings ${SERVER}/settings.ini -config ${CONFIG} -noshell