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

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Abdulghafar Shabaneh abdulghafar1412 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 16:08:49 UTC 2016


Hi

I have tried to downgrade to a lot of branches of the osmo-bts, but
unfortunately was unable to catch a good one!, most of them don't build and
install correctly with errors in make or ./configure commands.

 osmo-trx seems to be working fine with the 3.008.004 UHD, it was showing
that Transceiver successfully tuned the down link and up-link frequencies.

I decided to quit with this USRP unless you have a help of which osmo-bts
can be compatible and working with current osmo-nitb for USRPs. Can you
suggest any help?

Thanks
Abdulghafar


On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Abdulghafar Shabaneh <
abdulghafar1412 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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