Libusb pipe failures on Windows, Ubuntu (vm) with multiple SDRs

[matirko]

Hi all,

Not sure if this is the right place, but I figured I'd ask here rather than creating an issue (since I don't think it's an issue with SDRtrunk itself). I have three SDR dongles - two RTL_SDR.com v3's, and one Nesdr SmartTee (E400). With all of these, when I begin playback, I get a pipe error. I did not have these issues with the dongles on my previous computer with sdrtrunk, although I am not able to test on that setup right now. I've also attempted to use a variety of different USB ports.

I also wanted to test in a different environment, so I set up a Ubuntu vm on my computer (admittedly, the same one with the original issues.) I got the same results - pipe error when attempting to start a channel.

Drivers for Windows have been installed with the most recent Zadig. (and removed and re-installed)

sdrtrunk is the latest (v0.5.0), system is a Ryzen 9 7950x, ROG Strix X670E-A, 64gb DDR5. I'm kinda thinking that maybe there is some issue with the newer Ryzen / AMD chipsets and libusb, since I see a reddit thread where a similar issue was encountered. Unfortunately, I don't have any USB 2.0 ports to try. I did try disabling xhci handoff, and got the same results.

Logs from both types of devices (windows):

E400 Tuner (NooElec NeSDR):
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2023-01-09 12:47:37.993 INFO  i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - Discovering tuners ...  [17MB/56MB 30%]
2023-01-09 12:47:38.058 INFO  i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - LibUsb API Version: 1.0.262  [17MB/56MB 31%]
2023-01-09 12:47:38.058 INFO  i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - LibUsb Version: 1.0.22.11312  [17MB/56MB 31%]
2023-01-09 12:47:38.067 INFO  i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - LibUsb - discovered [13] potential usb devices  [17MB/56MB 31%]
2023-01-09 12:47:38.070 INFO  i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - Discovered tuner at USB Bus [5] Port [8] Tuner Class [RTL-2832]  [17MB/56MB 31%]
2023-01-09 12:47:38.072 INFO  i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - Tuner: USB Tuner - RTL-2832 USB Bus:5 Port:8 - Added / Starting ...  [18MB/56MB 33%]
2023-01-09 12:47:40.598 INFO  i.g.d.d.f.c.ComplexPolyphaseChannelizerM2 - Sample Rate [2400000.0] providing [96] channels at [25000.0] Hz each  [21MB/56MB 38%]
2023-01-09 12:47:40.599 INFO  i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - Tuner: USB Tuner - RTL-2832 USB Bus:5 Port:8 - Applying Tuner Configuration  [21MB/56MB 38%]
2023-01-09 12:47:41.105 INFO  i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - LibUsb Hotplug event notification Is Not Supported on this platform.  [22MB/56MB 40%]
2023-01-09 12:47:41.110 INFO  i.g.d.s.SettingsManager - SettingsManager - loading settings file [C:\Users\Michael\SDRTrunk\settings\settings.xml]  [22MB/56MB 40%]
2023-01-09 12:47:41.739 INFO  i.g.d.p.PlaylistManager - Loading playlist [C:\Users\Michael\SDRTrunk\playlist\default.xml]  [21MB/64MB 33%]
2023-01-09 12:47:41.768 INFO  i.g.dsheirer.gui.SDRTrunk - starting main application gui  [23MB/64MB 37%]
2023-01-09 12:48:03.479 ERROR i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - Error obtaining channel from tuner [RTL-2832/E4000 00000001]  [101MB/240MB 42%]
org.usb4java.LibUsbException: USB error 9: error writing byte buffer: Pipe error
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.rtl.RTL2832TunerController.write(RTL2832TunerController.java:798)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.rtl.RTL2832TunerController.writeDemodRegister(RTL2832TunerController.java:683)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.rtl.RTL2832TunerController.enableI2CRepeater(RTL2832TunerController.java:578)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.rtl.RTL2832TunerController$ControllerAdapter.enableI2CRepeater(RTL2832TunerController.java:1507)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.rtl.e4k.E4KEmbeddedTuner.setTunedFrequency(E4KEmbeddedTuner.java:284)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.rtl.RTL2832TunerController.setTunedFrequency(RTL2832TunerController.java:142)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.frequency.FrequencyController.setFrequency(FrequencyController.java:203)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.frequency.FrequencyController.setFrequency(FrequencyController.java:175)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.TunerController.setFrequency(TunerController.java:244)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.manager.PolyphaseChannelSourceManager.getSource(PolyphaseChannelSourceManager.java:443)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.manager.TunerManager.getSource(TunerManager.java:501)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.manager.TunerManager.getSource(TunerManager.java:437)
        at io.github.dsheirer.controller.channel.ChannelProcessingManager.startProcessing(ChannelProcessingManager.java:382)
        at io.github.dsheirer.controller.channel.ChannelProcessingManager.start(ChannelProcessingManager.java:303)
        at io.github.dsheirer.gui.playlist.channel.ChannelConfigurationEditor.lambda$getPlayButton$3(ChannelConfigurationEditor.java:372)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
2023-01-09 12:48:03.480 ERROR i.g.d.g.p.c.ChannelConfigurationEditor - Error starting channel [Control] - No Tuner Available  [101MB/240MB 42%]

RTL2832/R820T Tuner (RTL_SDR blog v3):
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2023-01-09 12:50:34.579 INFO  i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - Discovering tuners ...  [16MB/56MB 30%]
2023-01-09 12:50:34.635 INFO  i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - LibUsb API Version: 1.0.262  [17MB/56MB 31%]
2023-01-09 12:50:34.636 INFO  i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - LibUsb Version: 1.0.22.11312  [17MB/56MB 31%]
2023-01-09 12:50:34.645 INFO  i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - LibUsb - discovered [13] potential usb devices  [17MB/56MB 31%]
2023-01-09 12:50:34.648 INFO  i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - Discovered tuner at USB Bus [5] Port [8] Tuner Class [RTL-2832]  [18MB/56MB 32%]
2023-01-09 12:50:34.649 INFO  i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - Tuner: USB Tuner - RTL-2832 USB Bus:5 Port:8 - Added / Starting ...  [18MB/56MB 32%]
2023-01-09 12:50:36.689 INFO  i.g.d.d.f.c.ComplexPolyphaseChannelizerM2 - Sample Rate [2400000.0] providing [96] channels at [25000.0] Hz each  [21MB/56MB 38%]
2023-01-09 12:50:36.690 INFO  i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - Tuner: USB Tuner - RTL-2832 USB Bus:5 Port:8 - Applying Tuner Configuration  [21MB/56MB 38%]
2023-01-09 12:50:37.075 INFO  i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - LibUsb Hotplug event notification Is Not Supported on this platform.  [21MB/56MB 39%]
2023-01-09 12:50:37.078 INFO  i.g.d.s.SettingsManager - SettingsManager - loading settings file [C:\Users\Michael\SDRTrunk\settings\settings.xml]  [21MB/56MB 39%]
2023-01-09 12:50:37.579 INFO  i.g.d.p.PlaylistManager - Loading playlist [C:\Users\Michael\SDRTrunk\playlist\default.xml]  [23MB/64MB 36%]
2023-01-09 12:50:37.607 INFO  i.g.dsheirer.gui.SDRTrunk - starting main application gui  [25MB/64MB 39%]
2023-01-09 12:51:06.406 ERROR i.g.d.g.p.r.SystemEditor - Error retrieving system information  [111MB/568MB 19%]
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot read field "left" because "<local2>" is null
        at java.base/java.util.TreeMap.rotateLeft(Unknown Source)
        at java.base/java.util.TreeMap.fixAfterInsertion(Unknown Source)
        at java.base/java.util.TreeMap.addEntry(Unknown Source)
        at java.base/java.util.TreeMap.put(Unknown Source)
        at java.base/java.util.TreeMap.put(Unknown Source)
        at io.github.dsheirer.rrapi.RadioReferenceService.getTypesMap(RadioReferenceService.java:888)
        at io.github.dsheirer.gui.playlist.radioreference.SystemEditor.initRadioReferenceDecoder(SystemEditor.java:342)
        at io.github.dsheirer.gui.playlist.radioreference.SystemEditor.lambda$setSystem$5(SystemEditor.java:283)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
2023-01-09 12:51:14.295 ERROR i.g.d.s.t.m.TunerManager - Error obtaining channel from tuner [RTL-2832/R820T 00000001]  [280MB/568MB 49%]
org.usb4java.LibUsbException: USB error 9: error writing byte buffer: Pipe error
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.rtl.RTL2832TunerController.write(RTL2832TunerController.java:798)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.rtl.RTL2832TunerController.writeDemodRegister(RTL2832TunerController.java:683)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.rtl.RTL2832TunerController.enableI2CRepeater(RTL2832TunerController.java:578)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.rtl.RTL2832TunerController$ControllerAdapter.enableI2CRepeater(RTL2832TunerController.java:1507)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.rtl.r820t.R820TEmbeddedTuner.setTunedFrequency(R820TEmbeddedTuner.java:144)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.rtl.RTL2832TunerController.setTunedFrequency(RTL2832TunerController.java:142)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.frequency.FrequencyController.setFrequency(FrequencyController.java:203)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.frequency.FrequencyController.setFrequency(FrequencyController.java:175)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.TunerController.setFrequency(TunerController.java:244)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.manager.PolyphaseChannelSourceManager.getSource(PolyphaseChannelSourceManager.java:443)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.manager.TunerManager.getSource(TunerManager.java:501)
        at io.github.dsheirer.source.tuner.manager.TunerManager.getSource(TunerManager.java:437)
        at io.github.dsheirer.controller.channel.ChannelProcessingManager.startProcessing(ChannelProcessingManager.java:382)
        at io.github.dsheirer.controller.channel.ChannelProcessingManager.start(ChannelProcessingManager.java:303)
        at io.github.dsheirer.gui.playlist.channel.ChannelConfigurationEditor.lambda$getPlayButton$3(ChannelConfigurationEditor.java:372)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
2023-01-09 12:51:14.296 ERROR i.g.d.g.p.c.ChannelConfigurationEditor - Error starting channel [Control] - No Tuner Available  [280MB/568MB 49%]

[matirko]

Fixed - I ended up updating the chipset drivers and also trying every USB port, one at a time. Seems like I've only got 2 ports that work for this.