Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:20:29 -0600
From: "Eric H. Neilsen, Jr."
Subject: Re: 2.5m obslog 20020206 (MJD 52312)
Atsuko-
ank@apo.nmsu.edu wrote:
> We noticed the no gang message during afternoon checkout and that is
> why we did teamster -force.
Doing a teamster -force will only solve a no gang problem if a dead
teamster was the cause. Did the no gang complaints stop after the
teamster command?
> Later we had other problems which seemed to
> have started when we did the above command and later resulted in
> rebooting the crate to fix it as we noted in the log. Do I understand
> it correctly that 13, 14 hours later, when we ran endNight, the data
> was still not being copied over to the tapes?
Correct. Note that gangs being transferred and frames being archived are
two separate things, although both could break simultaneously if the DA
is sufficiently confused.
> But by the time you and
> Jon ran it few hours later, it was copied over? We did not see any
> action of data being archived to tapes after we ran endNight and before
> we went to bed.
The endNight output you sent makes it look to me as if it started the
archiver going, and indeed, when Jon and I ran it later in the morning,
all the frames were appropriately archived. We had no problems. We even
checked the pool to make sure there were no unarchived frames.
> So I am rather surprised that the data was archived at
> all --- did it just do it while no one was watching?
		-Eric