Re-starting ISPI
If the GUI hangs, you will need to restart ISPI, you should start from
the simplest restart, building to a more full restart as neccessary.
- Single click the red 'EXIT'
button on the ISPI Control GUI (with the really cool
cross section view of ISPI).
- Quit the 'ArcVIEW Main
Application' window by first clicking
on the 'EXIT' button in the window and then pulling down the 'File' menu in the top, left corner of
the window, and going to 'Quit'.
- Single click on the
'ArcVIEW' button in the vnc session xload box. This will pop up
the ISPI Control
GUI, and an 'ArcVIEW Main
Application'
window. The Application
window should have two round buttons, labelled 'Connected?' that appear
red.
- On the ISPI Control GUI, there is a white arrow icon in the
upper left corner of the window. Single
click on the white arrow. This arrow should now turn black. The
two
buttons in the Application window should turn green.
- Minimize the Application window by clicking on the underscore
'_' icon on the blue bar,
in the upper right corner of each window. You
are now
ready to
operate ISPI.
- Quit as above for the simple
restart. Now check to see if there are any remaining labview
processes. To do
this, from a terminal window,
connected to ctioa9 type the command "ps
-ef | grep labview". Note the process# attached to the labview
processes.
- Kill all the remaining
labview processes with the command "kill
-9 process#" from the same
terminal window. You really only need to kill the
parent process
in order to kill all the subprocesses. The parent is the
process with a 1 next to the process#.
- Verify with ps -ef | grep
labview that all the labview processes are killed.
- Now continue to re-start the GUI as above in the simple restart.
- Frustration level rising, deep
breath, restart
- Do as in the less simple
re-start above. Kill the "TightVNC: ispi's X
desktop (ctio:9)" by clicking on the X in the upper, right
corner of the
window. THIS IS THE ONLY X IN
A BOX THAT
YOU SHOULD EVER CLICK ON IN ANY PART OF THE VNC DESKTOP!
- Click the ISPI
VNC icon in the upper left of the ctioa8 desktop.
- Single click on the
'ArcVIEW' button in the vnc session xload box. This will pop up
the ISPI Control
GUI, and an 'ArcVIEW Main
Application'
window. The Application
window should have two round buttons, labelled 'Connected?' that appear
red.
- On the ISPI Control GUI, there is a white arrow icon in the
upper left corner of the window. Single
click on the white arrow. This arrow should now turn black. The
two
buttons in the Application window should turn green.
- Minimize the Application window by clicking on the underscore
'_' icon on the blue bar,
in the upper right corner of each window. You
are now
ready to
operate ISPI.
- Call the mountain electronics support to reboot ctioa9 and/or
power cycle the instrument at the telescope.
- After rebooting, follow the normal startup.
- If in doubt, or really stuck, phone
the instrument scientists:
- Contact scientist cell phone: 09-499-6216
- Nicole van der Bliek: home: 211869; office:
205
- Malcom Smith: office: 217
- Roberto De Propris: office: 203
February 15, 2007