Re: [BLAST_SHIFTS] Shift summary 02/28/2004 A (0-4)

From: Karen Dow (kdow@mit.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 01 2004 - 09:24:16 EST


         The ET problem is covered in the on-line manual, just not as a
separate topic. It falls under the heading "I've started a run, and I see
triggers in the scalers, but no events are coming in". I'll do something
to make it more obvious...

                                         Karen

At 03:58 AM 2/28/2004 -0500, Electronic Log Book wrote:
>Operators: tavi vziskin vziskin
>
>
>At 3:00 ran into ET problem. The following message was displayed int he
>ER_start window:
>
>Error writing events... Cancel ET read loop!
>daLogMsg: Error writing events... Cancel ET read loop!
>
>As it turned out. $DATADIR directory was full. There is no entry on how
>to deal with this problem in the manual under "Common Problems and
>Solutions", maybe it's not common enough. I wasn't sure what I can do
>with the files and wherther I can erase them or not. But I read in the
>manual that these files are copied to spuds every 5 minutes. I checked
>and they are indeed there. So, to clean up space I deleted file from
>/scratch/dblast07/blast/data/data/ files 4501-4519 and as it turned out
>5090-5096. Now it's only 97% full. It seems to me that this clean up
>should be done by people who know not by people on shift and before this
>happens, but it's just me.



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