Re: 19991108: I need some assistance

Karli,

Run the ldm from  home on the command line with the messages to the
screen, ie.

% bin/rpc.ldmd -vl - etc/ldmd.conf

This should give us a clue of the problem.

Robb...



On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Karli Lopez wrote:

> Rob,
> 
> Hello again, I tried deleting the queue but unfortunately that wasn't
> the problem.  So I tried getting it into verbose mode by typing :
> kill -USR2 `cat ldmd.pid`
> but I got a "can't find pid" error.  Thinking at the moment that -USR2
> stood for the username I typed:
> kill -ldm `cat ldmd.pid`
> which apparently worked though I got a list of what seemed to me some
> unix commands in uppercase (or perhaps verbose information?) but when I
> checked the pid's the process wasn't running.
> Now, whenever I start ldm, it runs for a few seconds but immeadetly
> after, it crashes.  However the ldmd.log file is completely empty, so is
> the ldm-mcidas.log file, after the run. So I don't have a chance to get
> it back to the original mode.
> So I am completely confused as to what the problem might be.  Thanks
> 
> Karli Lopez
> 
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> > Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 09:38:37 -0700 (MST)
> > From: Robb Kambic
> > Subject: Re: 19991108: I need some assistance
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> > On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Unidata Support wrote:
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> > > >To: address@hidden
> > > >From: McIDAS
> > > >Subject: I need some assistance
> > > >Organization: McIDAS proyect
> > > >Keywords: 199911061941.MAA06721
> > >
> > > I'm sorry that this message may be too informal (and perhaps vague), but
> > > I am short on time at the moment.  For the past couple of months we've
> > > been having a weird problem with LDM where it shuts down for no apparent
> > > reason and if you start it, will shut itself down the next day.  Now, I
> > > haven't had the opportunity to get into it since It has been very hard
> > > lately to access this computer until now. I have no idea what it could
> > > be. Any assistance would be gladly appreciated.
> >
> > Karli,
> >
> > It may be a corrupt queue causing the problem. I would do:
> >
> > % ldmadmin stop
> > % ldmadmin delqueue
> > % ldmadmin mkqueue
> > % ldmadmin start
> >
> > If this doesn't solve the problem, run the ldm in verbose mode. Look in
> > the HOME directory for file ldmd.pid, then do:
> >
> > % kill -USR2 `cat ldmd.pid`
> >
> > This will put the ldm in verbose mode, do it again and it puts the ldm
> > into debug mode.  Do it once more, returns the ldm to silent mode.  A word
> > of caution, your log files will be much larger because every ldm action is
> > written to the ldm file.  So when the ldm dies, you should be able to find
> > out the problem.
> >
> > Robb...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Karli Lopez
> > >
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> 

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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