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Re: sunset.meteor.wisc.edu outage last night 0608 -> 1316 UTC

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  • Subject: Re: sunset.meteor.wisc.edu outage last night 0608 -> 1316 UTC
  • Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 10:32:05 -0600
Pete Pokrandt wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> The ldm on sunset.meteor.wisc.edu died last night with the following
> error:
> 
> Oct 04 06:08:37 3Q:sunset waldo(feed)[3356963]: assertion
> "info->sz <= xdrs->x_handy" failed: file "pq.c", line 5090
> 
> I found out about it this morning and restarted the ldm.
> 
> This would also have affected the Genuine Imitation Difax maps during
> that time, since they had no data.
> 
> I am feeding the lost data through (recovered from the UIUC data
> archive, many thanks David!) locally, but not to my downstream sites, so
> I don't overwhelm them with data.
> 
> Sorry for the outage. I'll keep an eye on it, all should be good now
> though.
> 
> Pete
> 
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Hi Pete,

Looks like something failed in the translation out of XDR format for
that product.  I'm not sure why.  Perhaps your queue got corrupted in
some way.  Perhaps there's a bad spot on your disk.  If it fails again,
it might be worthwhile to remake your queue.  A bad block scan wouldn't
hurt.

Anne
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