Trouble Shooting SICS

Here there is some information about how to solve problems with the SINQ data acquisition system SICS.

Basic Information

This section contains information on things which need to be understood before even trying to start troubleshooting SICS. Also fundamental techniques used for debugging SICS problems are described.

• Overview of how SICS is organized
• Neutron Data Acquisition
• Interacting with the histogram memory WWW Interface
• Running SICS
• Log files and tracing
• Finding source code and manuals
• Debugging at the Instrument
• Debugging SICS server startup
• General trouble shooting hints
• Avoiding Trouble with SICS

Recipes for SICS Trouble Shooting

• SICS does not work at all
• SICS parameters lost
• Counting does not work
• Some hardware does not work!
• Synchronisation to AFS fails
• No communication with sample environment
• SICS hanging or in funny state