[daip] strange DELAY error

Andrew Biggs abiggs at eso.org
Tue Mar 12 05:15:08 EDT 2013


Hi Eric. You're right about the header being corrupted. Instead of a
256x256 image, it now claims to be a 1024x1024 image. In fact, the entire
header information for this file (facet 64 - the last) has been copied
from facet 31!

This is probably an important clue - when the data are UVSUB'd (I'm
peeling) AIPS does it in two passes, facets 1-30 and 31-64 - presumably
this isn't a coincidence. So, it is probably nothing to do with CCEDT.

I tried to recover the situation last night by renaming the corrupted file
and replacing it with a copy of a previous map of facet 64. I then copied
the CC table from the corrupted to copied file - this looks fine with
PRTCC. When I then ran UVSUB I got the following message:

UVSUB2  Task UVSUB  (release of 31DEC13) begins
UVSUB2  You are using a non-standard program
UVSUB2  SETGDS: imaging done with reprojected tangent point(s)
UVSUB2  Using Clean Component source model
UVSUB2  FACSET: 0.879338 Jy found from 2553 components
UVSUB2  Create GROTHN3     .UVSUB .   3 (UV)  on disk  2  cno  269
UVSUB2  QINIT: did a GET  of    120570 Kwords, OFF          1772161
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field    1 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field    2 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field    3 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field    4 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field    5 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field    6 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field    7 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field    8 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field    9 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   10 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   11 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   12 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   13 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   14 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   15 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   16 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
AIPS 2: ** press RETURN for more, enter Q or next line to quit print **
#
 localhos  AIPS (31DEC13)   4003     12-MAR-2013  09:06:31    Page    3
Task     messages for user 4003
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   17 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   18 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   19 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   20 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   21 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   22 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   23 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   24 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   25 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   26 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   27 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   28 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   29 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM: at visibility number           1
UVSUB2  ALGMEM: at visibility number      200001
UVSUB2  ALGMEM: at visibility number      400001
UVSUB2  ALGMEM: at visibility number      600001
UVSUB2  ALGMEM: at visibility number      800001
UVSUB2  ALGMEM:  1024 - 0 cells, with      800104 Pts
UVSUB2  TABINI: Recovering old CC table version   3
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   31 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   32 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   33 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   35 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   36 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   37 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   38 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   40 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   42 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   43 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   45 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   47 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   48 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   52 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   56 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   57 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   58 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   59 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   60 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   62 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   63 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM field   64 Ipol gridded model subtraction chns    1-  240
UVSUB2  ALGMEM: at visibility number           1
UVSUB2  ALGMEM: at visibility number      200001
UVSUB2  ALGMEM: at visibility number      400001
UVSUB2  ALGMEM: at visibility number      600001
UVSUB2  ALGMEM: at visibility number      800001
UVSUB2  ALGMEM:  1024 - 0 cells, with      800104 Pts
UVSUB2  Copied FQ file from vol/cno/vers  2  268   1 to  2  269   1
UVSUB2  Copied AN file from vol/cno/vers  2  268   1 to  2  269   1
UVSUB2  Appears to have ended successfully
UVSUB2  localhos 31DEC13 TST: Cpu=   3426.0  Real=   3913  IO=     17647

The "recovering old CC table version 3" is a bit strange and, looking this
morning, the copied facet 64 again has the header information from facet
31.



I'm not sure if this has ever happened on my Linux box - could this be an
external disk issue?

I'll probably be doing more of this today so I'll try and be alert for
weirdness.

Cheers,

Andy

On 11/03/2013 23:25, "Eric Greisen" <egreisen at nrao.edu> wrote:

>Andrew Biggs wrote:
>> Hi there. I've recently been experiencing quite a few instances of the
>> following error when I try and, say, TVLOD an image:
>> 
>> AIPS 2: ZMI2: DELAY 1
>> AIPS 2: ZMI2: DELAY 2
>> AIPS 2: ZMI2: REQUEST FOR BYTES 1 THRU = 524288
>> AIPS 2: ZMI2: BEYOND EOF = 262144
>> AIPS 2: ZMIO: OPER=READ LUN=16 BLKNO=           1 8-BIT-BYTES=524288
>> AIPS 2: ZERROR: IN ZMI2 ERRNO = 22 (Invalid argument)
>> AIPS 2: TVLOAD: MINIT DISK I/O ERROR =     3
>> 
>> This seems to be related to having earlier run CCEDT on the image - a
>> missing CC table somehow seems to result e.g. 1 and 3 are there, but
>>not 2.
>> 
>> 
>> Do you have any idea what might be causing this? Can the image be
>> recovered?
>
>The DELAY messages are there to defend us from file systems that do not
>keep their file size info up to date (Lustre here at Socorro for one).
>They are real time delays of 1 sec and are done to try to prevent the
>error that follows.  The TVLOD thinks that the data file 524288 bytes
>long while it is in fact 1/2 of that.  Has the image header become
>corrupted?  Can you provide details of the CCEDT issue?  Do this
>promptly, I leave Thursday on vacation until April.
>
>Eric





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