MDM Trouble Report for 2009 Jul 11

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Mark Reynolds (UofM)
Instrument: retrocam

Problem(s) Encountered:
I used retrocam for an hour at the beginning of the evening before switching to TIFKAM.
When I returned to retrocam to get flats at the end of the night I ran into a problem. 
Retrocam was unable to change filters, and simply hung when I pressed the filter change 
button. I was trying to change from r --> g, the error message said that the IFW was 
unreachable. The IFW box on the telescope currently indicates 
that the r filter is still in position.

Inspection of the cable around the box does not reveal any loose connections. Upon restarting 
retrocam it would again hang, I've included the retrocam start up messages below, the IP
message appears in a seperate pop-up box after a few minutes.

I'll try rebooting the computers tomorrow afternoon and see if that help.
Regardless retrocam is not critical for my observations so there is NO NEED 
for this problem to be fixed tomorrow. (enjoy your weekend Bob!)

 start_retrocam
Starting RETROCAM...
[1] 14478
[1]    Exit 1                        /opt/apogee/bin/xpans
[1] 14479
Loading runtime default variables
Loading RETROCAM and IFW control utilities
Loading RETROCAM command scripting
Loading MDM TCS interface utilities
Loading FitsTcl
Gsc_Init
Dss_Init
Oracle_Init
Xtcs_Init
Ccd_Init
Loading Digital Sky survey access
Loading GSC catalog access
Loading Oracle
Loading graphics package
Loading CCD package
Loading BWidget package
Loading Tclx package
Building user interface
Loading online help
Loading camera properties
Configuring user interface
Configuring user interface (catalogs)
Configuring user interface (system)
Configuring user interface (geometry)
Configuring user interface (temperature)
Configuring user interface (ccd)
Configuring user interface (filter)
Configuring user interface (telescope)
Initializing camera...
Configuration system: Interface =  NET
Configuration system: IP =  140.252.83.103
Initializing ALTA camera...
setting up ALTA camera API definitions...
...done


ERROR
Unable to locate IP address for ALTA-E




PS. The RA/DEC drives went into the GUIDE2 state a number of times tonight,
as suggested by Bob simply pressing the stop button on the xtcs widget
wakes the drives back up. 

Also no problems with TIFKAM after the optics board replacement (cheers Bob)

------------------------------

Submitted on 2009 Jul 12 [5:32:48]
NOTE: This trouble report replaces the previous report for 2009 Jul 11