News, Oracle maintenance, PMAC connection, Andor at P23, MacroServer issues

• Oracle maintenance: FS-EC overlooked an announcement. Marcus prepared the fall-back solution. The Oracle service was never really interrupted.

• PMAC connections, P64, P10: at P64 the PMAC is connected via an Ubuntu box running the Tango server, P10 has an old PMAC with RS232.

• Andor at P23: tango server does not start. Time for tests needed.

• MacroServer issues: now and then the MacroServer gets stuck. The script SardanaDiag.py has been created which produces these versioned files containing diagnostic output:

  p10user@haspp10e1:~$ ls -al /online_dir/Diag/
  total 324
  drwxr-xr-x 2 p10user irc    4096 Aug 21 10:16 .
  drwxrwxrwx 5 root    root  53248 Aug 21 10:16 ..
  -rw-r--r-- 1 p10user irc  131711 Aug 21 10:16 MacroServer.log
  -rw-r--r-- 1 p10user irc   61548 Aug 21 10:16 MacroServerBT.log
  -rw-r--r-- 1 p10user irc   66863 Aug 21 10:16 Pool.log
  

  MacroServer.log, Pool.log contain the last 1000 lines of the MacroServer and Pool log files.

  MacroServerBT.log contains the backtrace of the MacroServer.

  Please enter

  $ SardanaDiag.py
  

  when the MacroServer gets stuck and let us know.