gEDA-user: New user - Hierarchy problem

["Steve Taylor" <steven.taylor56@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I an a new user of gEDA and have completed one single level schematic and  
am working on a second schematic. This second one has a top level page  
with a lower level section repeated four times. After a lot of reading on  
the web, looking at the examples, and experimentation, I have created the  
symbol for the underlying sheet and added pins for the connections to the  
circuits. I have given the pins labels, type, number, and sequence  
numbers. I added the "source=" attribute pointing to my underlying  
schematic file. In the schematic source I have added six in-1.sym and two  
out-1.sym connectors and have assigned a refdes to each equal to the label  
of the pins on the upper level symbol for the schematic. From the top  
level schematic, I can use the "Down Schematic" and "Down Symbol"  
functions to navigate between them all.

When I run gnetlist -g drc2 on the lower level schematic, it says that  
there are no errors and no warnings but does complain that I have eight  
pins that do not have a type attribute and then names the eight IO  
connectors by their refdes attributes.

When I run the same command on the top level schematic, I get a long list  
of "Duplicated references for every symbol in the underlying schematic, I  
get another list for duplicate slot 1 of every symbol, and I get errors on  
three of my inputs, listing the components to which they should have been  
connected, saying the nets connect to only one pin. The other three inputs  
and the two outputs are fine. In fact, if I run gnetlist -g pads to create  
a net list, one of the three nets that that says it only has one pin  
connected, actually has the complete list of pins that should have been  
connected, including pins on the top level and into the lower level  
schematics. That now leaves me with two nets that don't connect between  
the upper and lower levels and I can't figure out what is going on. They  
all have the same types of pins, attributes, etc.

I am evidently doing something wrong and I need some help in pointing me  
in the right direction.

Thanks,
Steve


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