[dms-discuss] electronic keys are down, for now

Braden Pellett braden at davismakerspace.org
Tue Oct 22 18:38:11 PDT 2013


Haha, it will go on the priority feature list...

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 03:22:18PM -0700, Lauren Norton wrote:
> You should write a code to apologize for itself.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Braden Pellett
> <braden at davismakerspace.org>wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > For the moment, the electronic door locking mechanism is down.  Physical
> > keys only for now until it is fixed.
> >
> > Basically after a recent upgrade to the OS on the door control computer,
> > it looks like a bug was tripped in my code that would cause the process to
> > die without cleaning up after itself, thus if this occurred while the door
> > was being unlocked, it would continuously try to unlock it.
> >
> > This happened at least once yesterday, and now it happened again while Tim
> > was there, and he sent me a message that he has deactivated the computer
> > until the issue can be resolved.
> >
> > It sounds like the continuous unlock cycle caused some damage to the
> > physical mechanism as well, though I'll let Tim speak to that.
> >
> > I'm very sorry that my code caused this problem.
> >
> >   - Braden



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