MDM Trouble Report for 2010 Oct 9

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): Ondrej Pejcha (Ohio State University)
Instrument: CCDS

Problem(s) Encountered:
At one point the TCS GUI became partially frozen - the GUI accepted
commands only intermittently, but did not execute them at all.
The telescope was still tracking. Prospero showed the link to TCS 
sometimes up sometimes down. Tried to reinitialize with tcinit 
and telinit but did not work, tried to close and open TCS GUI, 
but no change. Then killed all tserver processes 
(there were many of them) and then issued  telescope restart , 
which finally solved the problem. One hour lost.

After this procedure the TCS GUI showed approximately correct RA&Dec, 
but apparently not entirely correct. Had to home the telescope. 
Another 30 minutes lost.

The issue did not repeat. It might be worthwile to add to the 
Reverberation campaign manual the possibility that things 
might get correctedd with  telescope restart .

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Submitted on 2010 Oct 9 [5:36:44]