[ome-users] restarting ome server(s) - mac os x

[Chris Allan]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 02:55:15PM -0700, Bob Marinelli wrote:
> Dear OME developers,

Hi Bob.

> 
> Very nice system, would appreciate a bit of installation help.
> 
> Installation script finished OK, was able to log in as an OME user
> OK, created a project, create a dataset, browsed to a local image
> directory, selected a few hundred tiff images to import, the import
> started up fine, and it was possible to watch progress. After a
> while progress stopped (at say 274 orf 491 tasks). I had been watching
> with top (regular unix top, not ome top) and it looks like some part(s)
> of the image store and/or image server went poof.
> 
> The Home->Options->Tasks is stuck at Last Step 274, N steps 491,
> and the Clear Selected option hangs. In fact, everything i.e. command
> line "ome top" hangs too. It feels as though some critical ome server
> process died & I've looked through the documentation but can't find
> the instructions on how to restart the server(s).

OME runs behind/in Apache. Restart Apache and OME is restarted. :)

> 
> It certainly looks like it wants to work :) please give me some hints as
> to restarting things. I did find 274 or so files in Files so everything did
> look good up until it stopped.
> 
> Question 1: where can we find the OME logs, especially a log showing
> what the image import unhappy about? The tiff files are all pretty much
> the same size etc.

As OME runs behind/in Apache, the log files are Apache's.
"/var/log/httpd" on OS X as far as I can recall.

> 
> Question 2: what server(s) should be running, and how are they
> manually restarted?

As above.

> 
> Question 3: how to clear the Tasks list? Or will restarting server(s)
> cause the task list to restart?

Click "Clear All" on the tasks page. Restarting Apache will not clear
the task list.

> 
> This is all on Apple G5 with OS X 10.4.1 (Tiger). I followed the
> Panther instructions, but installed a few problematic Perl modules
> manually. The script did make it all the way through with few if any
> warnings. Postgres came up just fine, as did the Apache installation,
> and OME's login came up OK.

We have not, as of yet (certainly in Dundee), spent a significant amount
of time testing OME on Tiger, so some things may not work correctly.

> 
> Apache & OME & postgres are all on the same host.
> 
> Thanks very much,
> 
> Bob

Ciao.

-Chris