Shane AO  

Problem: Unexpectedly Low Strehl

Manifestation:

• Unexpectedly low Strehl values (e.g. during afternoon activities, compared with previous days values).
• In Messages window, repeated messages of the following form:

   
     Aug  1 11:05:59 real kernel: last message repeated 14476 times 
     Aug  1 11:07:00 real kernel: last message repeated 14475 times 
     Aug  1 11:08:01 real kernel: last message repeated 14476 times 
     

  indicate a problem which results in poor performance of the Shane AO system.

Solution/Recovery:

• Locate the terminal labelled shaneao; Place cursor in this window to make it the active window.
• Hit return/enter key to acquire a python (>>>) prompt.
• At the python prompt, type exit(). This stops the underlying shaneao software process(es).
• Having stopped the process(es), at the python (>>>) prompt, type shaneao. This (re-)starts the underlying shaneao software process(es).

Cause:

• Unknown

Associated Issues:

• None.

Change Log:

2018-12-22: First version.