[daip] AIPS problem accessing data

[Jose Afonso]

Dear DAIP (Eric?),

I am currently facing a problem with accessing my data with AIPS. I have 
installed 31DEC08 version (still to upgrade to current one), and 
everything has been working fine until last week, when the access to one 
of the data disks had some problems. AIPS started reporting that the 
filesystem was read-only, and I traced this back to a problem with a 
sata disk connection.

(log messages showed something like:
Mar 27 15:39:26 midas kernel: [286861.009348] ata5: port is slow to 
respond, ple
ase be patient (Status 0xd0)
Mar 27 15:39:31 midas kernel: [286865.992112] ata5: device not ready 
(errno=-16)
, forcing hardreset
Mar 27 15:39:31 midas kernel: [286865.992117] ata5: soft resetting link
Mar 27 15:39:31 midas kernel: [286866.181041] ata5.00: configured for 
UDMA/33
Mar 27 15:39:31 midas kernel: [286866.181057] ata5: EH complete
)

The local system manager had a look and found some connection error that 
seems to be solved now. However, when trying to access my many data 
files with AIPS I now get (example):

 >ind 2
AIPS 1: PROTECTED!
 >pcat
AIPS 1: Catalog on disk  1
AIPS 1:  Cat Usid Mapname      Class   Seq  Pt     Last access      Stat
 >help
AIPS 1: ZDIR: COULD NOT TRANSLATE LOGICAL =
AIPS 1: ZDIR:
AIPS 1: ZTXMAT ERROR =      2
AIPS 1: SYNTAX!
 >free
AIPS 1: Disk Volume name              Total Full       Free Timd Access
AIPS 1:  #                           blocks    %     blocks days
AIPS 1:  1  <2/aips/DATA/MIDAS_1  240362688    2  233945184  365 Alluser
AIPS 1:  2  <1/aips/DATA/MIDAS_1  240348400   23  184081824  365 Alluser
AIPS 1:  3  <2/aips/DATA/MIDAS_2  240362688    2  233945184  365 Alluser
AIPS 1:  4  <1/aips/DATA/MIDAS_2  240348400   23  184081824  365 Alluser

(the data areas above are correct, I just don't seem to be able to read 
anything on them...)

perhaps the disk problems when I last exited AIPS created some file that 
has now not recognizing me as a permitted user...? The user number I am 
using is the same as before, 2. If I use "3", a previously unused user, 
then everything works fine:
 >pcat
AIPS 1: Catalog on disk  1
AIPS 1:  Cat Usid Mapname      Class   Seq  Pt     Last access      Stat
AIPS 1: Catalog on disk  2
AIPS 1:  Cat Usid Mapname      Class   Seq  Pt     Last access      Stat
AIPS 1: Catalog on disk  3
AIPS 1:  Cat Usid Mapname      Class   Seq  Pt     Last access      Stat
AIPS 1: Catalog on disk  4
AIPS 1:  Cat Usid Mapname      Class   Seq  Pt     Last access      Stat
etc...

so the problem seems to affect only user 2 (was actually the only user 
with files on this machine) and not new users.

I would very much appreciate any help you may offer on this - seems an 
easy problem, but outside my low-level understanding of AIPS workings...

Many thanks
Jose

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Jose Manuel Afonso
Observatorio Astronomico de Lisboa
Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-018 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 361 67 45/30 Fax: +351 21 361 67 52
Email: jafonso at oal.ul.pt
Webpage: http://www.oal.ul.pt/~jafonso