Interpreting Console Messages

If you have a console, these are messages you may see:

Message	Interpretation
hdlc error	the message is too short for an hdlc message
bit error	seven 1-bits were found in a row; this is a protocol violation and indicates noise
short record	the record is too small to obey NOAAPORT conventions
long record	the record is too long to obey NOAAPORT conventions
clock stopped	no data; this usually indicates a hardware problem
no flags found	the data is garbage; check for hardware problems
spool wrapped	no one is reading the FIFOs; data is being lost

There may also be messages from the system that are unrelated to the ingest process, for example disk error or full disk.