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Dave, > Virga's LDM stopped saving IDS+ data this morning; when I tried to > stop it ("ldmadmin stop") it refused ("Waiting for the LDM to > terminate") for almost an hour (I was in class). I tried killing it > manually but couldn't seem to finish off all the rpc processes. > Running "ldmadmin stop" again produced and error message ("Feb 19 > 17:51:00 UTC virga.sfsu.edu : make_lockfile: another ldmadmin process > exists"), followed by endless more of "Waiting for the LDM to > terminate". > > I finally killed the rpc processes with "kill -9 ###", deleted the > queue (not much choice: "The writer-counter of the product-queue is > not zero. Either a process has the product-queue open for writing or > the queue might be corrupt."), remade the queue, and got things > rolling again. > > Can you see anything diagnostically meaningful from your perspective? I was on Virga as the LDM user when you restarted the LDM. I saw that the downstream LDM process that should receive IDS data from idd.unidata.ucar.edu wasn't doing anything. I also saw that the log file timestamps were in local time instead of UTC. I haven't yet figured-out what the problem is. > -- Dave > > ************************************************************ > * Dr. Dave Dempsey | ^ ___ > \|/ * > * Dept. of Geosciences | ) ^ /||_||\ > --0-- * > * San Francisco State University | ) ) / ||_|| \ /|\ * > * 1600 Holloway Ave. | ) ) / ||_|| > \ * > * San Francisco, CA 94132 | ) ) / ||_|| \ ^ * > * > | ) ) ) ||_|| \ * > * Phone: (415) 338-7716 | ) ) )~||~||~~~~ \~~* > * FAX: (415) 338-7705 | ) ) ) ) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~* > * Email: address@hidden | ) ) ) ) ) ~ ~ ~ ~ * > ************************************************************ Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: TXN-293177 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Open