Problem(s) Encountered:

When I was closing up for the night, when the dropleaf closed, TCS read out an error saying  ERROR - dropleaf adam set digit error .  After that, I was unable to control the dome.  i tried closing the slit and opening the dropleaf, but none of my commands seem to be recognized by TCS (thetext on the session log was black, no blue text).  I even tried  tx slit close dammit , but that didn''t work.  I tried quiting and reopening TCS, but that had no impact.  in the end, the 2.4m observers had to close the slit for me (the dropleaf wasstill closed)

Solutions:

Failure with closing the dome was resolved by closing the xtcs GUI, then typing telescope stop, followed by telescope start (cycling the telescope servers) in a mdm13ws1 terminal window.  The first attempt at correcting the problem resulted in an error when attempting to close the dropleaf.  The error stated something along the lines of a “digit error”.  It was an error I hadn’t seen before.  I did a second attempt of cycling telescope servers, which resulted in the system coming back to full functionality.  I will however want to test it some more this afternoon before completely signing off on this one.

It is also worth noting that when this error occurs, the problem involves all commands issued from the tcs GUI.  For example, attempting to move the telescope (point ha=0 dec=60 nodome) after the error results in no motion as well.  Not sure why the command line becomes nonresponsive unfortunately.