[Dxspider-support] User database/info seems to vanish

Michael Carper, Ph.D. mike at wa9pie.net
Fri Nov 23 22:40:23 CET 2018


No.  What’s the process for that?

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 1:41 PM Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> Have you tried deleting your users.v3 and then regenerating it from
> user_asc?
>
>
> Dirk
>
> On 23/11/2018 19:30, Michael Carper, Ph.D. wrote:
>
> Well, actually, after adding space... I still find that this comes up
> every time I connect (even after filling it out):
>
> Please enter your name, set/name <your name>
> Please enter your QTH, set/qth <your qth>
> Please enter your location with set/location or set/qra
> Please enter your Home Node, set/homenode <your home DX Cluster>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 11:03 PM Michael Carper, Ph.D. <mike at wa9pie.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I'll look into that, Dirk.  But since doubling the disk space, the
>> original problem I reported has vanished.
>>
>> Mike, WA9PIE
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 6:55 PM Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm struggling to understand why (one presumes) DXSpider is consuming so
>>> much disk space.
>>>
>>> On GB7DJK I have 20 years of data
>>>
>>> spots 3.4G
>>> logs 5.5G
>>> debug 1.3G
>>>
>>> debug is only so big because I have several users and node links, each
>>> day is 120-150MB and there will be up to 11 files.
>>>
>>> Is there any evidence in the debug files of restarts? (grep orft debug/*)
>>>
>>> This is what a "normal" restart or stoppage from any signal except KILL
>>> should look like:
>>>
>>> If you find that string in one of your debug files, what happens before
>>> that? Specifically before the actual start string - something like:
>>>
>>> 1542243714^DXSpider V1.57, build 135 (git: c60ec0c[r]) started
>>> 1542243714^Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
>>>
>>> "orft we jolly well go" is the end of initialisation and "bye bye
>>> everyone - bye bye" indicates the end of a controlled shutdown (either by
>>> command or a TERM or other catchable signal). [ed: (cough) older people in
>>> the UK may recognise these as catch phrases from the TV and radio]
>>>
>>> They are there as erm.. "unusual" strings that one can grep for.
>>>
>>> 73 Dirk G1TLH
>>>
>>> On 23/11/2018 00:14, Michael Carper, Ph.D. wrote:
>>>
>>> I just doubled the disk space.  It's now got (55% free):
>>>
>>> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>> /dev/sda1        40G   17G   21G  45% /
>>> tmpfs           1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /dev/shm
>>>
>>> Mike, WA9PIE
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 2:57 PM Michael Carper, Ph.D. <mike at wa9pie.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dirk,
>>>>
>>>> The specs on this machine are as follows:
>>>>
>>>> Google Cloud Platform
>>>> Machine type; n1-standard-1 (1 vCPU, 3.75 GB memory)
>>>> ********
>>>> Disk Usage (GB)
>>>> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>>> /dev/sda1        20G   18G  1.5G  93% /
>>>> tmpfs           1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /dev/shm
>>>> ********
>>>> Memory Usage (MB)
>>>>              total       used       free     shared    buffers
>>>>  cached
>>>> Mem:          3707       3587        120          0        159
>>>>  3045
>>>> -/+ buffers/cache:        382       3324
>>>> Swap:            0          0          0
>>>> ********
>>>>
>>>> ...maybe it's low on disk space?
>>>>
>>>> Mike, WA9PIE
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 6:38 AM Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <
>>>> dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What machine is this running on and what are you using for disk space?
>>>>>
>>>>> Dirk
>>>>>
>>>>> On 15/11/2018 07:36, Michael Carper, Ph.D. via Dxspider-support wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Greetings all.
>>>>>
>>>>> Recently, it seems my node (WA9PIE-2) has lost its user database.  The
>>>>> node has probably restarted without cause.
>>>>>
>>>>> I say the node has lots its user database because my own login is
>>>>> greeted with the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello WA9PIE, this is WA9PIE-2 in Prosper, TX
>>>>> running DXSpider V1.55 build 0.181
>>>>> ===
>>>>> Questions about the WA9PIE-2 Global DX Spotting Network:
>>>>> email: mike at wa9pie.net
>>>>> ===
>>>>> Cluster: 396 nodes, 344 local / 3207 total users  Max users 6269
>>>>> Uptime 3 22:26
>>>>> Please enter your name, set/name <your name>
>>>>> Please enter your QTH, set/qth <your qth>
>>>>> Please enter your location with set/location or set/qra
>>>>> Please enter your Home Node, set/homenode <your home DX Cluster>
>>>>> WA9PIE de WA9PIE-2 15-Nov-2018 0727Z dxspider >
>>>>>
>>>>> I've logged into my own node many times and have set all these
>>>>> values.  Why would it lose them?  Why would it restart?
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone else seen this happen?  Does anyone know what I can do to
>>>>> avoid it and get the node back to "normal?"
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike, WA9PIE
>>>>>
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