This is true. There are likely all sorts of hung processes/sessions and locked user accounts because of the power failure while the software was in use. If they were running as nmrsu, as Daniel points out, that could lock it up for all users, until the hung processes and other communications glitches are cleared from both the computer and the console. Once cleared, a full restart on both should restore everything to working once again.
Kristie M. Adams, Ph.D.
NMR Spectroscopy, Compendial Development Laboratory
The United States Pharmacopeial Convention
12601 Twinbrook Parkway
Rockville, MD 20852
Office: 301-230-3389
kma_at_usp.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Plant,Daniel [mailto:dan_at_mbi.ufl.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 8:12 AM
To: 'Robert Honeychuck'; ammrl_at_ammrl.org
Subject: RE: AMMRL: TopSpin won't start
Long ago (uxnmr), there was a user file in curdir after a crash that would hang the system until you removed it...
Can you delete the file that was up during the outage?
Usually I go back to the nmrsu directory to see if it's just a user problem but this one may hang it up for everyone.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Honeychuck [mailto:rhoneych_at_gmu.edu]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 2:05 PM
To: ammrl_at_ammrl.org
Subject: AMMRL: TopSpin won't start
Hello all.
A student was in TopSpin on my DPX 300 during a power failure. The console turned itself off. I replaced the battery pack on the 230 V UPS and turned the instrument back on. Now Linux is good, but TopSpin won't start. The Flexlm license seems to be OK. The internal boards are not damaged: fcutest, tcutest, and rcutest find no errors.
The error message mentions a read-only file system, but the permissions look OK in Konqueror.
Here is the error message on attempted startup by user chem. The 1.3 is correct. This is where our topspin resides.
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CPR : Path to prog : "/opt/topspin1.3/prog"
CPR : Path to exp : "/opt/topspin1.3/exp"
CPR : Path to conf : "/opt/topspin1.3/conf"
CPR : waiting for FLEXlm license
CPR : Your FLEXlm license is valid until 6-nov-2023 CPR : could not correct permissions of current data directory /opt/topspin1.3/prog/curdir/chem: Read-only file system Program is exiting...
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Thank you very much.
Robert Honeychuck
Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry
George Mason U
Fairfax VA 22030
rhoneych_at_gmu.edu
Received on Tue Sep 23 2014 - 09:13:24 MST