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<p>Offliners,</p>
<p>There have been several reports of strange behavior with RPC and
hdgeant4 over the past day or so. I've built some new version sets
to try and address the issue. Unfortunately, there is a bit of
speculation here (see below) and I am not sure that these new
version sets will solve problems folks have been seeing, but the
changes are small and I think they are worth a try.</p>
<h3>New, recommended version sets<br>
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<ul>
<li>version_4.26.0.xml</li>
<li>recon-2017_01-ver03_20.xml</li>
<li>recon-2018_01-ver02_12.xml</li>
<li>recon-2018_08-ver02_11.xml</li>
</ul>
<p>version_4.26.0.xml is now the default at JLab<br>
</p>
<h3>Old, deprecated version sets</h3>
<ul>
<li>version_4.25.0.xml</li>
<li>recon-2017_01-ver03_19.xml</li>
<li>recon-2018_01-ver02_11.xml</li>
<li>recon-2018_08-ver02_10.xml</li>
</ul>
<p>Please try to avoid using these.<br>
</p>
<p>The recent use of libtirpc to replace RPC calls needed by ROOT is
suspected to be causing large number of RPC calls. This
replacement was part of the work to make our software compatible
with future distributions, those beyond our current default of
CentOS 7.7. So the new version sets simply drop the use of
libtirpc when building hdgeant4 to see if that is what is causing
the problem.</p>
<p> -- Mark</p>
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