MDM Trouble Report for 2005 Feb 19

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Statler/Watanabe (Ohio Univ.)
Instrument: Direct/Echelle

Problem(s) Encountered:
/data/pinatubo/visitor became inaccessible from chichon. This was 
resolved by stopping pinatubo, running fsck manually twice
(fortunately we had the root password from when this problem 
occurred the previous Sunday). It was necessary to power down
pinatubo and reboot again to get disks mounted on chichon.

Did emergency shutdown about 8pm due to lightning in the area.
Bringing everything back up was not quite straightforward. Pinatubo
again had disk problems and it was again necessary to run fsck to
fix up the file system, then reboot chichon to get the mounts right.

Computers did not re-establish their link to the outside world.
It was neceesary to cycle the power on the router to fix this.
This was caused by a problem in the Lightning Shutdown Procedure.
It is not enough to simply say  to restart do everything in 
reverse order.  We guess that one needs to FIRST re-plug-in
the T1 line to the back of the router before turning on the main
UPS breaker.

No hours of observing lost; weather was bad anyway.

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Submitted on 2005 Feb 20 [4:26:52]