Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:38:12 +0000
From: Jon Brinkmann
Subject: Re: [sdss3-25mlog 586] Re: 2.5m obslog 20120317 (MJD 56004)
I've not touched the apoActor since summer of 2010.  David Margala
added disk space monitoring to it a bit more than a year ago.
If it's OK, I can add more debugging to it to find out where it's
hanging.
Jon
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 02:24:05PM -0600, Elena Malanushenko wrote:
> I think I better not until apo actor could return proper code of fault.
> We might need issue some exceptions to check apo actor with
> apo ping, or
> apo status, or
> apo version
>
> and if it does not return anything, it means it is not available.
>
> And when you disconnect from STUI after work
> you can see quitting of stui processes which were not completed
> and were hanging during the whole stui session :
>
> 20:04:52 APO.elenam 40 stui F Aborted; Actor='apo'; Cmd='ping'; Text="disconnected"
> 20:04:52 APO.elenam 45 stui F Aborted; Actor='apo'; Cmd='version'; Text="disconnected"
> 20:04:52 APO.elenam 46 stui F Aborted; Actor='apo'; Cmd='status'; Text="disconnected"
> 20:04:52 APO.elenam 47 stui F Aborted; Actor='apo'; Cmd='ping'; Text="disconnected"
> 20:04:52 APO.elenam 52 stui F Aborted; Actor='apo'; Cmd='ping'; Text="disconnected"
>
> We need to wait for Jon.
> Elena
>
> On Mar 18, 2012, at 2:14 PM, snedden@apo.nmsu.edu wrote:
>
> > We know how to restart the apo actor. If Jon hasn't changed anything in
> > apoActor, maybe it would be okay to put it back into testActors?
> >
> > Steph
> >
> >> The last update of status of apo actor in
> >> archiver was  on
> >>        2012-03-13T17:04:25.090355
> >> 5 days ago
> >>
> >> Garrett, sorry.
> >> I think I wrote email about the removing of apo actor from
> >> testAcrots.  I did it for Stephanie for afternoon check, as apo
> >> actor hanged us many times.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mar 18, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Garrett Ebelke wrote:
> >>
> >>> I was unaware that the apo actor was removed from the testActors script,
> >>> when I ran the testActors script several times, everything came back ok
> >>> each time, so we assumed it was not a faulty actor. I guess if we have
> >>> this problem again then we will restart the apoActor.
> >>>
> >>> -Garrett
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Kaike,
> >>>>
> >>>> I do not know, I did not observe.
> >>>>
> >>>> It is not running now. ( ~1 hour ago I have checked it).
> >>>> And if other actors show "not availble" in case of
> >>>> problem (run  "ecamera ping" to see ) "apo ping" does not return
> >>>> code of fault.
> >>>> I removed  "apo ping" from  "testActors" two weeks ago
> >>>> as it hangs my script and prevent the testing of other actors.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Elena
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mar 18, 2012, at 1:19 PM, Kaike Pan wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> was apoActor running last night?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Mar 18, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Elena Malanushenko wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> During last several night I got several complaines about
> >>>>>> apo actor problem and not all of my scripts were working
> >>>>>> as expected if it related with apo actor.
> >>>>>> i did not change anything in apo data reading during last several
> >>>>>> months and I need to ask Jon as he might changed
> >>>>>> something but did not expect to give us some follow up
> >>>>>> problems.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> dustcounts, enclosure status   are  from apo actor
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Elena
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Mar 18, 2012, at 5:12 AM, gebelke@apo.nmsu.edu wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>                   APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>                             OBSERVING LOG
> >>>>>>>                      Saturday March 17, 2012
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>                              (MJD 56004)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ----  Observing Team ----
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Viktor Malanushenko
> >>>>>>> Garrett Ebelke
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ---- Observing Plan ----
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 17 Mar 2012  56004.0  0.28  02:35 11:47  07:16 16:29  BOSS  9.2
> >>>>>>> hours
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ---- Observing Summary ----
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The entire night was lost due to high dust, high winds and heavy
> >>>>>>> cloud
> >>>>>>> coverage.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The STUI dustCounter script and weatherPlot script are not working
> >>>>>>> on
> >>>>>>> either
> >>>>>>> minidru or landru.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>>> Message 582 of sdss3-25mlog - Logs of nightly APO activities.
> >>>>>> sdss3-25mlog@sdss3.org
> >>>>>> https://sdss3.org/mailman/listinfo/sdss3-25mlog
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Elena Malanushenko
> >>>> elenam@apo.nmsu.edu
> >>>> All things are difficult before they are easy.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Elena Malanushenko
> >> elenam@apo.nmsu.edu
> >> All things are difficult before they are easy.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Message 586 of sdss3-25mlog - Logs of nightly APO activities.
> >> sdss3-25mlog@sdss3.org
> >> https://sdss3.org/mailman/listinfo/sdss3-25mlog
> >>
> >
> >
>
> Elena Malanushenko
> elenam@apo.nmsu.edu
> All things are difficult before they are easy.