emane 0.8.1 not supported and no error messages provided

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Install emane 0.8.1
2.Run any emane emulation
3.emane process will not run correctly

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Everything to work.  Both emane and emanetransportd running.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
emane 0.8.1
ubuntu 12.04
svn core 4.4svn3

Please provide any additional information below.
When manually running emane with the autogenerated platform file the antenna 
configuration items cause an ABORT.  "ABORT ConfigureException: unexpected 
configuration item (item:antennaazimuthbeamwidth, value:360.0)"

Looking at the release notes (attached) included in emane 0.8.1 antenna 
settings have been depreciated.  There are also changes in values of fields for 
throughput among other things.

Might I suggest as a temporary patch verifying that a supported emane version 
is present (7.3?) before running an emane scenario and providing a CEL code if 
it's wrong.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bebemas...@gmail.com on 8 Mar 2013 at 3:17

Attachments:

• ReleaseNotes-0.8.1.html

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In 4.4svn6 and SVN r706 (2013-02-13) onward, support for EMANE 0.8.1 was added. 
Also there is backwards-compatibility with 0.7.4; CORE will detect 0.8.1+ 
versus 0.7.4- and adjust the XML appropriately.

Failure scenario is still an issue. I've had problems where EMANE threw an 
exception but the CEL did not light (no indication other than lack of traffic.) 
The code uses check_call() which only checks the process return code, but needs 
to do more.

Original comment by ahrenh...@gmail.com on 8 Mar 2013 at 3:31

• Changed state: Started

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fixed in r706

bug #191 added for silent failure problem

Original comment by ahrenh...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2013 at 10:09

• Changed state: Fixed