We should be able to tell with the data. The other day we killed the
data recorder process and rebooted the iBOB, and everything is back to
normal. This time I only killed the data recorder process, so the
script shouldn't reboot the iBOB (unless it can't ping it). Therefore
I would say that if only rebooting the data recorder code solves it,
that it's a software and not a hardware problem.
Observations start around 7 tonight Arecibo time, so we don't have to
wait long to find out.

Laura


On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Andrew Siemion <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Laura,
>
> Shoot.  Can you tell if the beam switcher is actually getting stuck, or if
> the reporting is just screwed up?
>
> - Andrew
>
> On 4/23/10 12:53 PM, "Laura Spitler" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>> It looks like sometime during observations on Thursday the beam got
>> stuck again. I killed the data recorder process, which you will soon
>> receive an email about. I'll take a look at the new data we collect
>> tonight to see if everything is back to normal. Clearly this is a
>> recurring problem that we need to look into.
>>
>> Laura
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Andrew Siemion <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi Dan,
>>>
>>> Thanks, a bottle of Ron del Barillitos would be great!
>>>
>>> - Andrew
>>>
>>> On 4/20/10 4:23 PM, "Dan Werthimer" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> andrew and laura,
>>>>
>>>> i'm at arecibo for another 13 hours, so let
>>>> me know if you want me to do anthing.
>>>>
>>>> dan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 4/20/2010 4:12 PM, Andrew Siemion wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Laura noticed that sV.v had stopped switching beams.  We have made some
>>>>> changes to the status check script to:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. check to make sure the ibob is responding to pings
>>>>> 2. include the ibob in the power off - power on sequence
>>>>> 3. power off - power on both the ibob and bee2 upon any error condition
>>>>>
>>>>> - Andrew
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 4/20/10 4:08 PM, "[email protected]"<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> SERENDIP V.5 CRITICAL ERROR REPORT
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The BEE2 is responding to pings:
>>>>>> PING beecourageous (192.168.1.86) 56(84) bytes of data.
>>>>>> 64 bytes from beecourageous (192.168.1.86): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.369
>>>>>> ms
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --- beecourageous ping statistics ---
>>>>>> 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
>>>>>> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.369/0.369/0.369/0.000 ms
>>>>>> The iBOB is responding to pings:
>>>>>> PING ddc (192.168.2.6) 56(84) bytes of data.
>>>>>> 64 bytes from ddc (192.168.2.6): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=5.56 ms
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --- ddc ping statistics ---
>>>>>> 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
>>>>>> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 5.565/5.565/5.565/0.000 ms
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *****The data collection process is **NOT RUNNING** as of Tuesday 20th
>>>>>> April
>>>>>> 2010 07:00:01 PM
>>>>>> Attempting to restart the BEE...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Power off command output:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Power on command output:
>>>>>> Attempting to restart the IBOB...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Power off command output:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Power on command output:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Current Status: 1 ON
>>>>>> 2 OFF
>>>>>> 3 ON
>>>>>> 4 ON
>>>>>> 5 ON
>>>>>> 6 OFF
>>>>>> 7 ON
>>>>>> 8 OFF
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sleeping 60 seconds to wait for fpga devices to come back up...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> !!Success!! The iBOB has awoken:
>>>>>> PING ddc (192.168.2.6) 56(84) bytes of data.
>>>>>> 64 bytes from ddc (192.168.2.6): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=6.43 ms
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --- ddc ping statistics ---
>>>>>> 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
>>>>>> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 6.434/6.434/6.434/0.000 ms
>>>>>> !!Success!! The BEE2 lives!
>>>>>> Sleeping 5 minutes to let the BEE2 boot...
>>>>>> Attempting to restart the whole shebang...
>>>>>> Check output below:
>>>>>> root
>>>>>> copying dr2_config_short into dr2_config
>>>>>> copying old output files for safekeeping
>>>>>> killing any previous setispec_dr runs
>>>>>> killing old disk buf collector...
>>>>>> killing previous ssh instances to run sendstatus on o...@beecourageous
>>>>>> initalizing the iBOB
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 7 beam, 2 pol
>>>>>> Number of beams: 7
>>>>>>   Number of pols: 2
>>>>>>   Number of cycles: 1
>>>>>> Dwelltime: 1
>>>>>> Max address: 14
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 0x0000 / 00000 ->  0x000000ED / 0b00000000000000000000000011101101 /
>>>>>> 0000000237
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 0x0001 / 00001 ->  0x000000EB / 0b00000000000000000000000011101011 /
>>>>>> 0000000235
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 0x0002 / 00002 ->  0x000000E7 / 0b00000000000000000000000011100111 /
>>>>>> 0000000231
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 0x0003 / 00003 ->  0x000000DE / 0b00000000000000000000000011011110 /
>>>>>> 0000000222
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 0x0004 / 00004 ->  0x000000DD / 0b00000000000000000000000011011101 /
>>>>>> 0000000221
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 0x0005 / 00005 ->  0x000000DB / 0b00000000000000000000000011011011 /
>>>>>> 0000000219
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 0x0006 / 00006 ->  0x000000D7 / 0b00000000000000000000000011010111 /
>>>>>> 0000000215
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 0x0007 / 00007 ->  0x000000BE / 0b00000000000000000000000010111110 /
>>>>>> 0000000190
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 0x0008 / 00008 ->  0x000000BD / 0b00000000000000000000000010111101 /
>>>>>> 0000000189
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 0x0009 / 00009 ->  0x000000BB / 0b00000000000000000000000010111011 /
>>>>>> 0000000187
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 0x000A / 00010 ->  0x000000B7 / 0b00000000000000000000000010110111 /
>>>>>> 0000000183
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 0x000B / 00011 ->  0x0000007E / 0b00000000000000000000000001111110 /
>>>>>> 0000000126
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 0x000C / 00012 ->  0x0000007D / 0b00000000000000000000000001111101 /
>>>>>> 0000000125
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 0x000D / 00013 ->  0x0000007B / 0b00000000000000000000000001111011 /
>>>>>> 0000000123
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 0x000E / 00014 ->  0x00000000 / 0b00000000000000000000000000000000 /
>>>>>> 0000000000
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> rebooting the bee2
>>>>>> tcgetattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>>>>> killing previous sendstatus
>>>>>> deleting previous nohup file
>>>>>> killing running bofs
>>>>>> loading new bofs
>>>>>> nohup: appending output to `nohup.out'
>>>>>> nohup: appending output to `nohup.out'
>>>>>> nohup: appending output to `nohup.out'
>>>>>> nohup: appending output to `nohup.out'
>>>>>> configuring chips
>>>>>> Setting the maximum number of hits to: 25
>>>>>> Setting the scale threshold to 80
>>>>>> done
>>>>>> Connection to beecourageous closed.
>>>>>> starting sendstatus
>>>>>> starting diskbuf cleaner
>>>>>> starting new run
>>>>>> imdonenow
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Disk Usage:
>>>>>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>>>>> /dev/md1              226G   71G  155G  32% /
>>>>>> tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /lib/init/rw
>>>>>> udev                   10M  108K  9.9M   2% /dev
>>>>>> tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
>>>>>> /dev/md0              236M   35M  190M  16% /boot
>>>>>> /dev/sdc1             1.4T  147G  1.3T  11% /mockdata
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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