MS cannot connect; Location Update Request not received by BTS?

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Abdulghafar Shabaneh abdulghafar1412 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 21:51:28 UTC 2016


Hi

That's the same that is happening with me since about two weeks, and I was
unable to solve it. They told me it might be uhd problem, but I installed
different uhds with the same issue.

osmo-bitb shows the same error like this:
<0000> chan_alloc.c:342 (bts=0,trx=0,ts=7,pchan=TCH/F) Allocating lchan=0
as TCH_F
<0004> abis_rsl.c:1727 (bts=0,trx=0,ts=7,ss=0) Activating ARFCN(60) SS(0)
lctype TCH_F r=EMERGENCY ra=0xab ta=3
<0004> abis_rsl.c:536 (bts=0,trx=0,ts=7,pchan=TCH/F) Tx RSL Channel
Activate with act_type=INITIAL
<0004> abis_rsl.c:1127 (bts=0,trx=0,ts=7,ss=0) state NONE -> ACTIVATION
REQUESTED
<0004> abis_rsl.c:1456 (bts=0,trx=0,ts=7,ss=0) CHANNEL ACTIVATE ACK
<0004> abis_rsl.c:1127 (bts=0,trx=0,ts=7,ss=0) state ACTIVATION REQUESTED
-> ACTIVE
<0004> abis_rsl.c:806 (bts=0,trx=0,ts=7,ss=0) RF Channel Release CMD due
error 1
<0004> abis_rsl.c:718 (bts=0,trx=0,ts=7,ss=0) DEACTivate SACCH CMD
<0004> abis_rsl.c:1127 (bts=0,trx=0,ts=7,ss=0) state ACTIVE -> RELEASE DUE
ERROR
<0004> abis_rsl.c:863 (bts=0,trx=0,ts=7,ss=0) RF CHANNEL RELEASE ACK
<0004> abis_rsl.c:767 (bts=0,trx=0,ts=7,ss=0) is back in operation.


it once showed this error:
<0022> control_if.c:286 Failed to parse ip access message: -5
<0000> chan_alloc.c:355 Failed to allocate SDCCH channel
<0004> abis_rsl.c:1678 BTS 0 CHAN RQD: no resources for SDCCH 0x10


osmo-pcu is not working fine with me, can this help to solve the problem?,
this is the output for using it with and without sudo.
pi at raspberrypi:~ $ osmo-pcu -r 1
No config file: 'osmo-pcu.cfg' Using default config.
<0001> osmobts_sock.cpp:227 Opening OsmoPCU L1 interface to OsmoBTS
<0001> osmobts_sock.cpp:264 Failed to connect to the osmo-bts PCU socket,
delaying... '/tmp/pcu_bts'
<0001> osmobts_sock.cpp:227 Opening OsmoPCU L1 interface to OsmoBTS
<0001> osmobts_sock.cpp:264 Failed to connect to the osmo-bts PCU socket,
delaying... '/tmp/pcu_bts'
^CSignal 2 received.
full talloc report on 'Osmo-PCU context' (total      1 bytes in   1 blocks)
pi at raspberrypi:~ $ sudo osmo-pcu -r 1
No config file: 'osmo-pcu.cfg' Using default config.
<0001> osmobts_sock.cpp:227 Opening OsmoPCU L1 interface to OsmoBTS
<0001> osmobts_sock.cpp:285 osmo-bts PCU socket has been connected
<0001> pcu_l1_if.cpp:357 BTS not available
pi at raspberrypi:~ $

I use USRP2 , I used recently a reference clock of 10 MHz but didn't solve
the issue, but it is good to know that N210 is with the same error.

Another thing that my network rarely shows on the MS, but the osmo-nitb
still shows the output every minute or more or when I do a mobile network
search.

Thanks
Abdulghafar

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Holger Freyther <holger at freyther.de> wrote:

>
> > On 27 Sep 2016, at 05:47, Bruce Smith <brucemate at mail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
>
> Dear Bruce,
>
> I have never used osmo-trx/uhd or related with OpenBSC but in terms of
> figuring out what is broken let's have a look at the different components.
>
>
> > There's a delay of ~10s at the line marked **** where the BTS seems to
> wait for a location update request from the MS; which never gets received,
> hence the BTS times out and releases the channel. Using a phone in
> diagnostic mode, this message appears to be sent correctly, however the BTS
> never receives/processes it.
>
> So OpenBSC/osmo-nitb seems to work correctly. It doesn't "ignore" a
> message and it is just missing. My hypothesizes that you might have time to
> explore:
>
> a.) osmo-trx not being able to decode the message?
> b.) The osmo-bts-trx is not "receiving" data from osmo-trx?
> c.) osmo-bts-trx not getting the LAPDm framing right?
>
>
> >
> > I've tried using older configuration files (which have worked with older
> builds), as well as the sample configuration files contained with each of
> the master branches, but to no differing effect.
> >
> > Given the MS can see and attempt to connect to the BTS, I'm assuming the
> transceiver chain is working correctly... my thoughts are that perhaps I've
> got some simple configuration set incorrectly somewhere along the way.
> >
>
> > libosmocore (master) - 2016-08-30
> > libosmo-abis (master) - 2016-09-05
> > libosmo-netif (master) - 2016-07-07
> > openggsn (master) - 2016-06-05
> > libosmo-sccp (master) - 2016-07-07
> > openbsc (master) - 2016-09-05
> > osmo-bts (master) - 2016-09-06
> > osmo-pcu (master) - 2016-09-06
> > osmo-trx (master) - 2016-08-11
> > uhd_003.009.002-0
>
> Could you downgrade your osmo-trx and osmo-bts to the 12+ months old
> version? The rest should work just fine and doesn't seem to have the issue.
> So my bet is either osmo-bts (a year ago you must have used a branch, now
> the refactored master branch is used) or osmo-trx?
>
>
> holger
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