ELOG 40m

Reflective Memory Network is restored

Reflective Memory Network is restored, all watchdogs and oplevs are returned to the "enabled" state.

In order to revive the computers, several things were done.

1) Following Mr. Adhikari's elog entry #353, I walked around the interferometer room, and switched off the power keys in all crates with computers whose names are contained in the MEDM Reflective Memory screen, including the rack with the framebuilder. By the way, it was nontrivial to find the switch in the 1Y4 crate that would shut off/on processors "c1susvme1" and "c1susvme2": the switch turned out to be located at the rear side of the crate, and it is not a key but it is a button.

2) I was trying to follow wiki-40 computer restart procedures, but every time that I was trying to run "startup.cmd" screen from the corresponding target subdirectory, I got the error message "Device or resource busy".
By the way, one more thing was learned: if you firstly open in terminal burtgooey, select the snap file, then reboot the processor, and then will try to burt-restore it, you will get the message "Status Not OK". In order to really burt-restore the processor which was recently rebooted, you need to close the terminal with burtgooey and open burtgooey in a new terminal window which should be opened after rebooting the processor.

Feeling that my activities according to wiki-40 procedures do not revive computers, I invited Alex Ivanov.

3) Alex tried to touch the memory card in "c1iovme" in rack 1Y2, because once before this card failed causing network problems, but this did not help.

4) We shutted off and restarted again (pressing the power-switching button) the black Linux machine "c1dcuepics" (located in the very bottom below the framebuilder). Alex says that this machine is responsible for all EPICS. It was not restarted for 182 days, and probably some process there went wrong.

After restarting this machine "c1dcuepics" we were able to follow wiki-40 procedures for restarting all other computers (whose names are on the MEDM RFM network). We ran correcponding "startup.cmd" files and burt-restored them without error messages.

Now all the computers work and communicate in a proper way.

Mr. Joseph Betzwiezer was helping me with all these activities (we decided that it is more important that cameras for now), thanks to him. But our joint skills turned out to be insufficient, so Alex Ivanov's contribution was the most important.

477

Wed May 14 14:05:40 2008

Andrey

Computer Linux-2, MEDM screen "Watchdogs"

Computer "Linux-2", MEDM screen "C1SUS_Watchdogs.adl": there is no indication for ETMY watchdogs, everything is white. There is information on that screen "C1SUS_Watchdogs.adl" about all other systems (MC, ETMX,...), but something is wrong with indicators for ETMY on that particular control computer.

486

Sun May 18 18:59:15 2008

I added rosalba to the hosts file for the control room machines (131.215.113.103).

I also removed the updateddb cron from our op440m crontab because it was running at 5 PM
even though I had set it to run at 5:57 AM. If it still runs then, it must be because of
another crontab.

492

Thu May 22 11:25:19 2008

One of the new Netgear Prosafe 24 port switches was mounted in the 1X4 rack,, roughly in the middle, away from the top and bottom rack mounted electronics. At the moment, its IP has been set to 131.215.113.250, gateway 131.215.113.2 (which is what I saw as the only listed gateway on linux1 using route -n) and mask 255.255.255.0.

I'm planning to set the next three IP address for the switches as *.251, *.252 and *.253, which don't look to have been used yet.

495

Sun May 25 16:20:27 2008

I have installed joinPDF 2.1 on rosalba. Since its written in Java, I didn't have to tinker with it at all to work on a 64-bit machine. Now Caryn can put all of her plots into 1 file.

498

Sun May 25 21:14:14 2008

I set up an EPICS gateway server on Nodus so that we can look at 40m MEDM screens from off-site.
The gateway is set up to allow read access to all channels and write access to none of them.

The executable is /cvs/cds/epics/extensions/gateway; it was already installed. A script to start
up the gateway is in target/epics-gateway. For the time being, I haven't set it up to start itself
on boot or anything like that.

To make it work, you have to set the environment variable EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST to the IP address of
Nodus. For instance, something like this should work:

setenv EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST 131.215.115.52

On Windows you can set up environment variables in the "System" Control Panel. On one of the tabs
there's a button that lets you set up environment variables that will be visible to all programs.

On Andrey's machine I installed the Windows EPICS extensions, i.e. MEDM and its friends. I also
installed the cool Tortoise SVN client which lets you interact with SVN repositories through
the windows explorer shell. (The right-click menu now contains SVN options.) I checked out
the MEDM directory from the 40m SVN onto the desktop. You should be able to just right-click in
that window and choose "SVN Update" to get all the newest screens that have been contributed to
SVN; however, there are currently some problems with the 40m SVN that make that not go smoothly.

At the moment on Andrey's (Windows) machine you can go into the MEDM folder and double-click on
any screen and it will just work, with the exception that not all the screens are installed
due to SVN difficulties.

501

Wed May 28 12:51:32 2008

Two more switches mounted

Two more Prosafe 24 port switches have been mounted in the racks, one in 1Y9 and one in 1Y6. (The first one was placed in 1X4).

The one in 1Y9 has been set to an IP address of 131.215.113.251, while the one in 1Y6 is set to 131.215.113.252, and these have been labeled as such.

508

Fri May 30 21:30:15 2008

I installed svn on op440m.  This involved installing the following packages from sunfreeware:

apache-2.2.6-sol9-sparc-local  libiconv-1.11-sol9-sparc-local   subversion-1.4.5-sol9-sparc-local
db-4.2.52.NC-sol9-sparc-local  libxml2-2.6.31-sol9-sparc-local  swig-1.3.29-sol9-sparc-local
expat-2.0.1-sol9-sparc-local   neon-0.25.5-sol9-sparc-local     zlib-1.2.3-sol9-sparc-local
gdbm-1.8.3-sol9-sparc-local    openssl-0.9.8g-sol9-sparc-local

The packages are located in /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/solaris/packages.  The command line to install
a package is "pkgadd -d " followed by the package name.  This can be repeated on nodus to get
svn over there.  (Kind of egregious to require an apache installation for the svn _client_, I 
know.)

509

Sun Jun 1 19:25:10 2008

rana

new monitor on op440m

I installed the new 24" flat screen on op440m. I increased the screen resolution from 1280x1024 to 1900x1200 using
the obscure 'fbconfig' command. You can type Google it if you want.

The old monitor is on the surplus cart. If you are reading this and think you might walk from the 40 over to
Bridge, please wheel the cart full of old computer equipment (on the north side of the control room) over to Larry.

I also copied over all the images on the D40 to a folder on Kirk's computer and deleted the originals.

Dan Busby also visited us last week to help us move the drill press from the Y arm down into the sub basement
of W Bridge.

510

Sun Jun 1 19:39:35 2008

Phil Ehrens gave me a DVD of the 40m elog, apache, and (Jamie's) SVN archive.
I copied it to nodus:/home/controls/dvd-from-ehrens.  Once we get the elog
running on nodus, we can copy the datafile over again from dziban (so that
we don't lose any elog entries) and switch over.

513

Tue Jun 3 10:19:45 2008

Several of us transported the big new awesome Sun box from Bridge over to
the 40m last week. If I recall correctly, it's a SunFire X4600 with
something like sixteen 64-bit AMD processor cores at 2.8 GHz. It sounds
like a jet engine when it starts up (before the cooling fans are throttled
back) and has four power supplies (each with its own connection
to the wall). It has slick removable hard disks and fan units too. Our
working name for it is "megatron".

Anyway. It came with two hard disks, one with Solaris 10 installed. I took
the other hard disk over to Alex, who copied a Realtime Linux installation
onto it. Alex says it boots and runs fine.

It remains for you guys to install the machine onto rails and install the
whole thing into a rack. Before it goes into service as a realtime control
machine, you might as well install Matlab on it and do some heavy-duty
computation.

514

Tue Jun 3 10:40:27 2008

Alex let me know the secret location of the latest dataviewer executable for Linux. It is:

http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~aivanov/upload/dv/Control/dc3

If your linux dataviewer on linux2 has the "year field not filled in" bug, you should download this into /usr/local/bin/dc3 (after making a backup of that file).

It looks like there's no dataviewer installed on rosalba yet. We should figure out a better directory layout for the linux machines; currently dataviewer is installed locally on linux2. It should be in /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/something so that all the linux machines see the same installation.

538

Wed Jun 18 16:07:57 2008

The RFM network tripped off around noon today. It's still down. The problem appears to be with the EPICS interface (c1dcuepics). Trying to restart one of the end stations yields the error: No response from EPICS.

Possible causes include (but not limited to): busted RFM card on c1dcuepics, busted PMC bus on c1dcuepics, busted fiber from c1dcuepics to the RFM switch. We need Alex.

544

Wed Jun 18 18:50:09 2008

rana

It can only be attributable to human error. (HAL - 2001)

There has been another one of "those" events and all of the front end machines are down.

We poked around and Rob determined that the FEs can't get the EPICS data from EPICS. The
dcuepics machine is hooked up and running and all of the epics binaries are running. We also
tried resetting its RFM switch as well as power cycling the box using the "poweroff" command.

Not a sausage.

Rob points out that although the Signal Detect lights are on on the cards, the 'Own Data' light
is not on on the dcuepics' card although it is on for some of the cards on the other boxes.

We have placed messages with the Russian. If anyone sees him, don't let him go without fixing things.
Also, make sure to follow him around with notepad and possibly a camera to record what it is that
he does. If he's muttering, maybe try to use a sensitive hidden sound recorder.

545

Thu Jun 19 15:52:06 2008

Alberto

Measure of the current absorbed by the new Megatron Computer

Together with Rich Abbot, sam Abbot and I measured the current absorbed by the new Megatron computer that we installed yesterday in the 1Y3 rack. The computer alone absorbs 8.1A at the startup and then goes down to 5.9A at regime. The rest of the rack took 5.2A without the computer so the all rack needs 13.3 at the startup and the 11.1A.

We also measured the current for the 1Y6 rack where an other similar Sun machine has been installed as temporary frame builder and we get 6.5A.

Alberto, Rich and Sam Abbot

586

Fri Jun 27 19:59:44 2008

C1susvme2 and C1iovme crashed which sent the optics swinging and tripped the watchdogs.

Koji and I were able to restore c1susvme2 without any trouble.

We have been unable to revive c1iovme. We have tried telneting in and running startup.cmd,
the process runs for a while then hangs with "DAQ init failed -- exiting".

Resetting the board doesn't help. I didn't try keying the whole crate.

All optics are back to normal with damping restored.

587

Sat Jun 28 03:10:25 2008

Quote:

I tried keying the crate, then keying the DAQ controller & AWG, then powering down & restarting the framebuilder.
On coming up, the framebuild doesn't start a daqd process, and I can't get one to start by hand (it just prints "652", and then stops).
No error messages and daqd doesn't appear in the prstat.

I then tried keying the DAQ controller again (after the fb0 reboot), which blew the watchdogs on all the suspensions. So then I went around and keyed all the crates.

Now, the suspension controllers are back online. Still no c1iovme, and now the framebuilder/DAQ/AWG are also hosed. We can try keying all the crates again, in the order that Yoichi did last week.

After some more poking around, I found the daqd log file. It's now complaining about

Jun 28 03:00:39 fb daqd[546]: [ID 355684 user.info] Fatal error: channel `C1: PSL-FSS_MIXERM_F' is duplicated 126

This is the second error message like this. It first complained about C1: PSL-FSS_FAST_F, so I commented that out of C1IOOF.ini and rebooted the framebuilder (note this is an actual reboot of the full solaris machine). Eventually I discovered that C1IOOF.ini and C1IOO.ini are essentially identical. They presumably will keep getting these duplicate channel errors until one of them is completely removed.

C1IOO.ini has a modification time of seven PM on Friday night. Who did this and didn't elog it? I've now modified C1IOOF.ini, and I don't remember when it was last modified.

588

Sat Jun 28 14:56:44 2008

In short, I was editing the ini files yesterday evening, I didn't e-log it and after some investigation this afternoon it apears
that I am to blame for all the computer problems which followed.

I wanted to edit C0EDCU.ini and C1IOOF.ini to change C1: PSL-FSS_FAST to a fast channel as C1: PSL-FSS_FAST_F
was dead.

I opened these files and made backups. It appears this is where it all went awry. My backup for C1IOOF
is called C1IOO.ini.090627 i.e. missing the F.

Later c1susvme2 and c1iovme crashed. After failing to bring c1iovme back I wondered if my edits had
caused the problems so I restored the back up files. It appears that here I wrote over C1IOO with my backup of
C1IOOF (presumably because I had made a typo in the name).

To remedy the situation we could restore C1IOO from e.g. chans/archive/C1IOO_080618_160028.ini

No excuses for not e-logging this activity.

589

Sat Jun 28 23:23:50 2008

All of the computers are now showing green lights.

Remaining problems:

Alignment scripts are failing with "ERROR: LDS - NDS server error #13"
I think this is a server transmission error.

Dataviwer shows all channels as zero.

592

Sun Jun 29 14:53:02 2008

Quote:

Fixed. Just started the testpoint manager on fb40m.

su
/usr/controls/tpman &

593

Sun Jun 29 18:58:43 2008

rana

1e20 is too big for AWG and/or IOVME

While testing out my matlab/awgstream based McWFS diagnostic script I accidentally put a
huge excitation into

C1:IOO-WFS1_PIT_EXC

. This went to 1e20 and then caused
some SUS to trip and c1susvme2 to go red. I tried booting it via the normal procedures
but it wouldn't come back, even after 2 crate power cycles. I also tried booting AWG
via the vmeBusReset, but that didn't do it. Then I booted c1iovme from the telnet prompt
and then I could restart c1susvme2 successfully.

The reason the excitation was so large is that the following filter command is unstable:
[b,a] = butter(4,[0.02 30]/1024);

The low pass part is OK, but it looks like making such a low frequency digital filter
is not. Que lastima. On the bright side, the code now has some excitation amplitude
checking.

606

Mon Jun 30 16:00:02 2008

josephb, sam

Sam and I setup Cat6 cable from Megatron to the 1Y6 Switch (131.215.113.252) and also connected the 1Y6 Hub to the control room switch.

While I was at it, I checked the configurations of the two switchs now connected (one in 1X4 and one in 1Y6) to the martian network. For some reason, the 1X4 had switched to DHCP enabled and was using 131.215.113.105 as an IP address. I had thought I had setup it correctly initially, so am not sure what caused the change.

The easiest way I know of to check the setup is use smartwizard discovery program from the Netgear install CD (in the equipment manual file cabinet of the control room) on a windows machine. The passwords have been set to the controls password.

Megatron should now see and be accessible through the martian network.

608

Tue Jul 1 09:26:33 2008

Tue Jul 1 11:53:38 2008

I took a tour of the FE machines and power cycled all of them.
After executing the software restart procedures of those computers, the RFM network got back to the normal state.
For some reason, the computers requiring startup.cmd (like c1lsc) halt after running this command. Actually the computer is running ok, but the command freezes. Basically, what it does is simply to load a kernel module. I don't know what is wrong.
Anyway, I just closed the terminal after running startup.cmd and it seems fine for now.

614

Tue Jul 1 13:34:29 2008

Quote:

For some reason, the computers requiring startup.cmd (like c1lsc) halt after running this command. Actually the computer is running ok, but the command freezes. Basically, what it does is simply to load a kernel module. I don't know what is wrong.
Anyway, I just closed the terminal after running startup.cmd and it seems fine for now.

This is normal. On the linux RTFEs (Real-Time Front Ends), the real-time code totally hijacks the kernel, disallowing any interrupts. The system thus becomes totally unresponsive while the code is running, and communicates only through the RFM and the VME backplane.

625

Wed Jul 2 17:19:03 2008

John

op440m - shutdown and restarted

After 160days op440m was getting a little slow.

631

Thu Jul 3 13:54:26 2008

Does mDV work on rosalba? It can't find NDS_GetChannels. Looking on mafalda, I see that NDS_GetChannels is a mexglx. I think this means someone may need to compile it for 64-bit matlab before we can have mDV on rosalba. When that's done, we should get mDV running on megatron.

636

Sun Jul 6 16:17:40 2008

I was able to check out the 40m SVN here in Livingston using this command:

svn co svn+ssh://controls@nodus.ligo.caltech.edu/cvs/cds/caltech/svn/trunk/medm

As you might guess, this uses ssh in place of the web server (which we don't have yet).

641

Mon Jul 7 14:02:05 2008

Yoichi

SVN conversion progress

So far /cvs/cds/caltech/medm, /cvs/cds/caltech/chans and /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts have been converted to svn working copies.
Now /cvs/cds/caltech/target is being converted.

644

Tue Jul 8 00:14:28 2008

Rob thought it would be nice to have some alarms on the cpu loads and FE syncs.
I added all these channels to the alarm handler config file and wrote a script
which would set their values (HIHI,HIGH etc).

Ezcawrite allowed me to set the alarm levels (and ezcaread would give the correct
value) but no matter what I set the value to the alarm wouldn't sound.

After experimenting with a few other channels it appears that the alarm handler will
not show alarms if the alarm levels are absent from the db file (even though ezca
gives a value).

I edited the following files so we can have alarms on the cpus.

In c1iscepics:
lsc40m.db
asc40m1.db

In c1losepics:
bs.db
etmx.db
etmy.db
itmx.db
itmy.db
mc1.db
mc2.db
mc3.db
prm.db
srm.db

I saved backups in the appropriate folders.

Next time we have a bootfest please also do c1iscepics and c1losepics so these changes
will be implemented.

654

Thu Jul 10 13:47:12 2008

Now you can access to the svn repository on nodus by https.
To perform a checkout, you can use the following command

svn co --username svn40m https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:30889/svn/trunk/chans

This will check out "chans" directory.
The password for svn40m is written in the usual place.
You can also access the URL by a web browser to see the repository in a very primitive way.
A nice web interface for browsing the repository is planed but not yet implemented.

658

Fri Jul 11 00:30:24 2008

rob

Metaphysics

strange SUS controllers

rob, johnnieM

We were hampered early tonight by the fact that someone sneakily turned off the HP RF Ampflier on the AS table.

After that, we were hampered further by mode cleaner strangeness. It would occasionally spontaneously unlock & blow its watchdogs. It never made it through the ontoMCL script (putting DC-CARM onto the MCL). After some investigation, we found that c1susvme1 and c1susvme2 were running stochastically late (SYNC_FE != 0), even though their computation times never got above 61. Also, the end SUS controllers were never late.

Weird.

After rebooting the vertex SUS controllers and the c1lsc, things appear to be working again.

667

Mon Jul 14 12:43:07 2008

John

Restarted fb40m, tpman and c1ass

682

Wed Jul 16 16:28:14 2008

Fixed IP address on Switch

Realized today that the change I made back on June 30th to the switch was to the wrong switch. I had disabled the DHCP setting and mislabeled the switch in the control room (which seems to not have affected anything).

I've turned DHCP back on and labeled it correctly using the Netgear "Smartwizard discovery" program.

695

Fri Jul 18 17:06:20 2008

Jenne

Computers down for most of the day, but back up now

[Sharon, Alex, Rob, Alberto, Jenne]

Sharon and I have been having trouble with the C1ASS computer the past couple of days. She has been corresponding with Alex, who has been rebooting the computers for us. At some point this afternoon, as a result of this work, or other stuff (I'm not totally sure which) about half of the computers' status lights on the MEDM screen were red. Alberto and Sharon spoke to Alex, who then fixed all of them except C1ASC. Alberto and I couldn't telnet into C1ASC to follow the restart procedures on the Wiki, so Rob helped us hook up a monitor and keyboard to the computer and restart it the old fashioned way.

It seems like C1ASC has some confusion as to what its IP address is, or some other computer is now using C1ASC's IP address.

As of now, all the computers are back up.

700

Fri Jul 18 19:43:55 2008

Yoichi

DAQ

PSL fast channels cannot be read by dataviewer

At this moment only the PSL fast channels have trouble.
Rob restarted fb40m, c1IOVME, but no effect.

724

Wed Jul 23 16:31:02 2008

Joe, Rana, Alberto,

we found out the password for Megatron so we could log in and set a new one so that now it's the same as that for controls.
The IP address is 131.215.113.59.

We had to switch to another LAN ports to actually connect it.

725

Wed Jul 23 17:19:48 2008

We changed the IP address. Ther new one is 131.215.113.95.

Joe, Alberto

Quote:

742

Sat Jul 26 15:09:57 2008

I was reviewing the PSL Overview screen this afternoon and op440m completely froze when I center-clicked on the REF CAVITY TRANSMISSION indicator. It was unresponsive to any keyboard or mouse control. The moon button had no effect to shut the machine down.

Called Alberto in and we logged into op440m from rosalba. From there we logged in as 'root' and run a shutdown script '/usr/sbin/shutdown -i S -g 1'. The medm screens started disappearing from the op440m display and we were eventually asked to enter System Maintenance Mode. From here we selected RUN LEVEL 5: "state 5: Shut the machine down so that it is safe to remove the power". Following this the machine turned itself off.

We powered it back on, logged back in as controls and restarted the medm screens. Everything seems to be running fine now.
Aidan.

744

Sun Jul 27 20:49:21 2008

After Aidan did whatever he did on op440m, I had to restart ntpd. I noticed it didn't actually do
anything so I restarted it by hand with the '-l' option to make a logfile. Essentially, the
problem is that NTPD is not allowed access to the outside world's NTP servers by our NAT router;
this should be fixed.

So for now I set all of the .conf files to point to rana and nodus' IP addresses. According to the
log files, that is successful. Rosalba and Mafalda, however, seem to have correct time but are
looking at rhel.ntp.pool.org and time.nist.gov, respectively. Maybe these have special rules?

For reference, the linux machines' conf files are /etc/ntp.conf
and the solaris machines' conf files are /etc/inet/ntp.conf

I also logged into dcuepics (aka scipe25) and did as instructed.

777

Thu Jul 31 16:11:22 2008

Matlab now works on megatron.

I did a few things:

1) Added to the PATH environment variable. Did this in .bash_profile in the /home/controls directory by adding the line

PATH=$PATH:/cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux64/matlab/bin/
export PATH

This probably should be somewhere else up further up the line, but I was too lazy to figure it out.

2)Fixed a gateway mistake I had added earlier so the megatron could use the NAT router and see the outside world so yum worked.

3) Removed the i386 based libXp and openmotif packages.

4) Installed the x86_64 based libXp and openmotif packages.

Edit: Forgot that I also added the following line to the /etc/fstab file in order to mount the shared code. This was stolen directly from Rosalba's /etc/fstab file. This was so that it could see the matlab code.
linux1:/home/cds/ /cvs/cds nfs rw,bg,soft 0 0

779

Fri Aug 1 10:45:46 2008

Megatron now running tcsh

At Rana's request, I've remotely switched Megatron over to using tcsh. I had to ssh -X in order ot use the "/sbin/system-config-users" program which is a graphical UI for modifying users. I had to go to preferences and uncheck hide system users, which then allowed me to see the controls user (at the bottom of the list), and edit it.

I also created a .tcshrc file in the /home/controls directory and copied the information from the .bashrc file, and also moved the matlab path definition into the PATH environment variable.

Does anyone know if sourcing /cvs/cds/caltech/cshrc.40m would be usable on a 64 bit machine, or does a new one need to be made for Megatron and/or Rosalba?

780

Fri Aug 1 11:51:15 2008

justing

Omnistructure

added /cvs/cds/site directory

I added a /cvs/cds/site directory. This is the same as is dicsussed here. Right now it just has the text file 'cit' in it, but eventually the other scripts should be added. I'll probably use it in the next version of mDV.

815

Fri Aug 8 12:21:57 2008

Switched X end ethernet connections over to new switch

In 1X4, I've switched the ethernet connections from c1iscex and c1auxex over to the new Prosafe 24 port switches. They also use the new cat6 cables, and are labeled.

At the moment, everything seems to be working as normally as it was before. In addition:

I can telnet into c1auxex (and can do the same to c1auxey which I didn't touch).
I can't telnet into c1iscex (but I couldn't do that before, nor can I telnet into c1iscey either, and I think these are computers which once running don't let you in).

822

Mon Aug 11 11:36:11 2008

josephb, Steve

c1susvme1 minor problems

Around 11 am c1susvme1 start having issues. Namely C1:SUS-PRM_FE_SYNC was railing at some large value like 16384 (2^14). I presume this means the computer was running catastophically late.

I turned off the BS and ITM watch dogs (the PRM was already off), tried hitting reset and sshing in, and running startup, but this didn't help. I then turned off the c1susvme2 associated watch dogs (MC1-3, SRM) and went out to do a hard reboot by switching the crate power off. c1susvme2 came back up fine, was restarted and associated watch dogs turned back on. However, c1susvme1 came back up without mounting /cvs/cds/.

As a test, I replaced the ethernet connection with a CAT6 cable to the Prosafe switch in 1Y6, and then ran reboot on c1susvme1. When it came back up, it had mounted properly, and I was able to run the ./startup.cmd file. At this point it seems to be happy. The new cable is in the trays coming in from the top of the 1Y4 and 1Y6 and approriately labeled.

Edit: Apparently ITMX and ITMY became excited after the reboot (perhaps I turned the watchdogs back on too early? Although that was after the DAQ light was listed as green for c1susvme). Steve noticed this when the alarms went off again (I had turned them off after the reboot seemed successful), and he damped them. Interestingly, the BS remained unexcited.

823

Mon Aug 11 12:42:04 2008

Continuing saga of c1susvme1

Coming back after lunch around 12:30pm, c1susvme1's status was again red. After switching off watchdogs, a reboot (ssh, su, reboot) and restarting startup.cmd, c1susvme1 is still reporting a max sync value (16384), occassionally dropping down to about 16377. The error light cycles between green and red as well.

At this point, I'm under the impression further reboots are not going to solve the problem.

Currently leaving the watchdogs associated with c1susvme1 off for the moment, at least until I get an idea of how to proceed.

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Mon Aug 11 13:59:23 2008

While poking around the crate, I noticed an error light on one of the c1susvme2 related boards was lit, while the corresponding light on the c1susvme1 was not. This confuses me as the c1susvme1 is the one having problems.

As a quick sanity check, I unplugged the ethernet connection from the c1susvme1 labeled board, and confirmed I couldn't log into it, and then plugged it back in, restarted it, and re-ran the startup script. This time c1susvme1 seemed to come up fine. Re-enabling the watchdogs doesn't seem to kick anything, and in fact seems to be bringing everything into line properly.

Although the error light on the c1susvme2 clk drvr board is still on. So I'm not sure what thats trying to tell us. Open to suggestions.

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Mon Aug 11 15:07:49 2008

Procyon aka fb40m switched to new switch

I've connected Procyon to the Prosafe 24 port switch with a new, labeled Cat6 cable. Quick tests with dataviewer shows that its working.

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Tue Aug 12 12:05:36 2008

Yoichi