MDM Trouble Report for 2017 May 10

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): Edmund Hodges-Kluck (Michigan)
Instrument: Templeton

Problem(s) Encountered:
The telescope would not move in the Dec direction. Point or offset
commands in the E/W direction moved the telescope, but any command
involving N/S threw a 'point not converging' error; JSkyCalc also
could not move the telescope. The hand paddle GUI was able to move
the telescope in the E/W direction and did not throw errors for
N/S offsets, but it was obvious from the tilt meter that the 
paddle would not move the telescope N/S. 

I restarted the tcs services and the control panel, but nothing
changed. I homed the dome, moved the telescope to zenith, and used
'zero', following suggestions in the trouble report archive, but
without success. Finally, I tried to home the Dec axis. This 
failed (ERROR home axis=m_dec fatal following error), and then
the telescope would not move at all because it did not know where
it was. Further attempts to move the telescope with the hand
paddle led to  ERROR in service ether=localhost,0x1341  and shut
down the rtel service, which required a 'telescope stop' and
'telescope start' to fix. 

I then used 'home force dec' to force the telescope to recognize
its location, and then 'zero'ed it at zenith. This re-enabled
pointing/offset, but Declination motion still failed. I stowed
the telescope and gave up for the night. 

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Submitted on 2017 May 10 [23:58:47]