Subject: Re: 2.5m obslog 20091126 (MJD 55162)
From: Robert Lupton the Good
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:53:15 -0500
> Sop and mcp stopped right cooperation and sop became confused with
> on/off
> statuses of FFs and lamps during observations of BOSS cartridges. We
> applied
> "sop restart" to fix. We think that the confusion starts if we run
> any mcp
> open & close command during not completed  related sop command.
> During the reading out
> of the science exposure, we closed FF and turned on lamps for post
> calibs. But this caused "sop doCalibs" failed with an error
> "failed to close screens...". We opened FF, and tried the command
> again,
> it still failed,  then we closed, opned, closed FF, and turned lamps
> off
> and tried the "sop doCalibs" again, the same error. The problem was
> fixed
> by "sop restart".
Mixing mcpMenu and sop commands is not recommended as it can confuse
STUI; this has come up before.  However you shouldn't be able to hang
sop so please file a ticket describing a minimal set of operations
that cause this problem.
					R