Troubleshooting

Here are some solutions to common problems that have occurred before. In general, if you can't solve a problem, contact a former computer engineer. Some former engineers are listed here with most recent first:

• Harold Hyte [email protected]
• Ben Shealy [email protected]
• Yates Monteith [email protected]
• David Cohen [email protected]

Power Outages

In case of a power outages, follow these steps to the best of your ability:

1. Go to the transmitter.
2. Ensure that the transmitter and exciter are on.
3. Ensure that the transmitter computer is on. Backup automation and transmitter management software should start automatically.
4. Go to the station.
5. Turn on all of the "Program 1" buttons on the sound board. Every single one of them.
6. Turn on Jemaine and Bret (the RAID arrays).
7. Restart John. John should mount Bret and start archiving automatically.
8. Restart George the Web server. George will mount Jemaine through John.
9. Restart Automatrix. When Automation, DJ Studio, and Cart Machine initialize, they should be able to load tracks if ZAutoLib is mounted to the network.
10. If the station has been down for more than 4 hours, play the Sign On cart. In DJ Studio, search "psa", it should be first on the list.
11. Start Automation.

NOTE: For some reason I haven't been able to make George mount Archibald and ZAutoLib during boot. Whenever I try, George just hangs. So anytime you restart George you will need to mount these drives manually. The commands to do this can be found in the home directory inside mount_commands.

Automation is Down

1. Reboot George and John using sudo reboot.
2. Run the commands listed inside mount_commands on George.
3. If you encounter errors, try running umount inside /var/www/Jemaine and John.
4. If this further does not fix the error, try manually power-ing off John and pressing the power buttons on the RAID drives.