BOINC 6.11/6.12, change log and news.

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Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 41054 - Posted: 7 Nov 2011, 22:22:38 UTC Last modified: 9 Nov 2011, 19:50:22 UTC BOINC 6.12.43 available for testing for Linux, Windows and Macintosh. Disclaimer On development versions of BOINC: - Expect parts of it to be broken, or in the least to work in a different way than you are used to. - Expect work failures, deadline misses and losing all your accumulated work in progress, or not getting credit for your work due to unknown and unforeseen circumstances. - Only use it when you are willing to participate in the Alpha test program and do not mind sending (bug) reports in to the developers on the email list specially assigned for this purpose. REMINDER TO ALL ALPHA TESTERS: It's far easier for the developers to fix problems when you send message logs with the appropriate flags set. The main flags are: <cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run. <work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much). <rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode. <sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information. Use these flags from the cc_config.xml file. When sending logs, make sure to CC David, Rom, or Charlie separately, since the email list will drop attachments! Report any problems you get with it to the Alpha email list. This list needs registration. Reporting bugs on this forum or any project's forum isn't very productive as the developers simply do not have time to scour through all forums looking for posts with your bug reports in them. While it may happen that we - other volunteers - forward your problem to them, history has shown it is quite difficult being the middle man in this when more information is needed from you. Hence why it's better for all concerned that you report the problem directly to the developers, who will come back directly to you when they need more information or better logs or to tell you that they've checked in a fix for the specific problem. The actual change log was taken from the Alpha email list and the Trac Timeline repository changes check-ins. This disclaimer was written by the volunteer moderators of this forum and approved of by the BOINC development team. Change Log 6.12.42 --> 6.12.43 client/API: pass bool using_sandbox in APP_INIT_DATA; says whether the client is using account-based sandboxing. Needed by vboxwrapper. ID: 41054 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 40831 - Posted: 25 Oct 2011, 12:18:27 UTC BOINC 6.12.42 available for testing for Linux. Disclaimer On development versions of BOINC: - Expect parts of it to be broken, or in the least to work in a different way than you are used to. - Expect work failures, deadline misses and losing all your accumulated work in progress, or not getting credit for your work due to unknown and unforeseen circumstances. - Only use it when you are willing to participate in the Alpha test program and do not mind sending (bug) reports in to the developers on the email list specially assigned for this purpose. REMINDER TO ALL ALPHA TESTERS: It's far easier for the developers to fix problems when you send message logs with the appropriate flags set. The main flags are: <cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run. <work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much). <rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode. <sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information. Use these flags from the cc_config.xml file. When sending logs, make sure to CC David, Rom, or Charlie separately, since the email list will drop attachments! Report any problems you get with it to the Alpha email list. This list needs registration. Reporting bugs on this forum or any project's forum isn't very productive as the developers simply do not have time to scour through all forums looking for posts with your bug reports in them. While it may happen that we - other volunteers - forward your problem to them, history has shown it is quite difficult being the middle man in this when more information is needed from you. Hence why it's better for all concerned that you report the problem directly to the developers, who will come back directly to you when they need more information or better logs or to tell you that they've checked in a fix for the specific problem. The actual change log was taken from the Alpha email list and the Trac Timeline repository changes check-ins. This disclaimer was written by the volunteer moderators of this forum and approved of by the BOINC development team. Change Log 6.12.42 Lib: make sure strip_whitespace can handle the overlapped string case. ID: 40831 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 40624 - Posted: 10 Oct 2011, 21:15:59 UTC Last modified: 11 Oct 2011, 9:48:37 UTC BOINC 6.12.41 available for testing for Windows and Macintosh. Disclaimer On development versions of BOINC: - Expect parts of it to be broken, or in the least to work in a different way than you are used to. - Expect work failures, deadline misses and losing all your accumulated work in progress, or not getting credit for your work due to unknown and unforeseen circumstances. - Only use it when you are willing to participate in the Alpha test program and do not mind sending (bug) reports in to the developers on the email list specially assigned for this purpose. REMINDER TO ALL ALPHA TESTERS: It's far easier for the developers to fix problems when you send message logs with the appropriate flags set. The main flags are: <cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run. <work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much). <rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode. <sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information. Use these flags from the cc_config.xml file. When sending logs, make sure to CC David, Rom, or Charlie separately, since the email list will drop attachments! Report any problems you get with it to the Alpha email list. This list needs registration. Reporting bugs on this forum or any project's forum isn't very productive as the developers simply do not have time to scour through all forums looking for posts with your bug reports in them. While it may happen that we - other volunteers - forward your problem to them, history has shown it is quite difficult being the middle man in this when more information is needed from you. Hence why it's better for all concerned that you report the problem directly to the developers, who will come back directly to you when they need more information or better logs or to tell you that they've checked in a fix for the specific problem. The actual change log was taken from the Alpha email list and the Trac Timeline repository changes check-ins. This disclaimer was written by the volunteer moderators of this forum and approved of by the BOINC development team. Change Log 6.12.40 client: fix a memory leak; would lose ~120 bytes each time a job is started. client: fix memory leak when reading stderr of completed job. This caused 128KB + size of stderr loss for each job. client: print error message if reading stderr fails (e.g. because of malloc failure). Change Log 6.12.41 client (Mac): there was no error check of the creation of a memory-mapped file used for communication with an app. Add a check, and don't start the job if it fails. ID: 40624 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 40527 - Posted: 3 Oct 2011, 20:57:42 UTC BOINC 6.12.39 available for testing for Windows. Disclaimer On development versions of BOINC: - Expect parts of it to be broken, or in the least to work in a different way than you are used to. - Expect work failures, deadline misses and losing all your accumulated work in progress, or not getting credit for your work due to unknown and unforeseen circumstances. - Only use it when you are willing to participate in the Alpha test program and do not mind sending (bug) reports in to the developers on the email list specially assigned for this purpose. REMINDER TO ALL ALPHA TESTERS: It's far easier for the developers to fix problems when you send message logs with the appropriate flags set. The main flags are: <cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run. <work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much). <rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode. <sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information. Use these flags from the cc_config.xml file. When sending logs, make sure to CC David, Rom, or Charlie separately, since the email list will drop attachments! Report any problems you get with it to the Alpha email list. This list needs registration. Reporting bugs on this forum or any project's forum isn't very productive as the developers simply do not have time to scour through all forums looking for posts with your bug reports in them. While it may happen that we - other volunteers - forward your problem to them, history has shown it is quite difficult being the middle man in this when more information is needed from you. Hence why it's better for all concerned that you report the problem directly to the developers, who will come back directly to you when they need more information or better logs or to tell you that they've checked in a fix for the specific problem. The actual change log was taken from the Alpha email list and the Trac Timeline repository changes check-ins. This disclaimer was written by the volunteer moderators of this forum and approved of by the BOINC development team. Change Log 6.12.39 client: with VBox on Win, the process graph sometimes has cycles. Not sure where this comes from. But avoid infinite recursion when traversing descendants. ID: 40527 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 40322 - Posted: 23 Sep 2011, 18:26:44 UTC Last modified: 29 Sep 2011, 17:42:16 UTC BOINC 6.12.38 available for testing for Linux, Windows and Macintosh. Disclaimer On development versions of BOINC: - Expect parts of it to be broken, or in the least to work in a different way than you are used to. - Expect work failures, deadline misses and losing all your accumulated work in progress, or not getting credit for your work due to unknown and unforeseen circumstances. - Only use it when you are willing to participate in the Alpha test program and do not mind sending (bug) reports in to the developers on the email list specially assigned for this purpose. REMINDER TO ALL ALPHA TESTERS: It's far easier for the developers to fix problems when you send message logs with the appropriate flags set. The main flags are: <cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run. <work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much). <rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode. <sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information. Use these flags from the cc_config.xml file. When sending logs, make sure to CC David, Rom, or Charlie separately, since the email list will drop attachments! Report any problems you get with it to the Alpha email list. This list needs registration. Reporting bugs on this forum or any project's forum isn't very productive as the developers simply do not have time to scour through all forums looking for posts with your bug reports in them. While it may happen that we - other volunteers - forward your problem to them, history has shown it is quite difficult being the middle man in this when more information is needed from you. Hence why it's better for all concerned that you report the problem directly to the developers, who will come back directly to you when they need more information or better logs or to tell you that they've checked in a fix for the specific problem. The actual change log was taken from the Alpha email list and the Trac Timeline repository changes check-ins. This disclaimer was written by the volunteer moderators of this forum and approved of by the BOINC development team. Change Log 6.12.38 client: Update Windows detection code to support Windows 8. (From: [P3D] Crashtest) client: Disable GPU detection of Windows when running as a service to avoid a deadlock condition with the latest ATI drivers. ID: 40322 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 40316 - Posted: 23 Sep 2011, 10:43:28 UTC Service installation problem? The problem is still with the ATI 11.7 (or 11.8) catalysts, which break the detection of the card. If you do not use your GPU, you can get around this with a cc_config.xml file that contains the following lines: <cc_config> <options> <no_gpus>1</no_gpus> </options> </cc_config> This will require a restart of the client. If you do use your GPU, you shouldn't install as a service on Windows 7 and Vista anyway due to the session 0 problem. In the mean time, Rom is including a fix that will disable the GPU detection. It'll be in the forthcoming 6.12.38. This will however break GPU detection when installed as a service on Windows XP as well. Sorry for that, but it's either, or. That will get fixed in a future release, until that time, go complain at ATI/AMD that they need to fix their drivers! And please report back when they said they did. ;-) ID: 40316 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 40298 - Posted: 22 Sep 2011, 19:24:46 UTC Last modified: 23 Sep 2011, 10:42:11 UTC BOINC 6.12.37 available for testing for Windows and Macintosh. Disclaimer On development versions of BOINC: - Expect parts of it to be broken, or in the least to work in a different way than you are used to. - Expect work failures, deadline misses and losing all your accumulated work in progress, or not getting credit for your work due to unknown and unforeseen circumstances. - Only use it when you are willing to participate in the Alpha test program and do not mind sending (bug) reports in to the developers on the email list specially assigned for this purpose. REMINDER TO ALL ALPHA TESTERS: It's far easier for the developers to fix problems when you send message logs with the appropriate flags set. The main flags are: <cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run. <work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much). <rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode. <sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information. Use these flags from the cc_config.xml file. When sending logs, make sure to CC David, Rom, or Charlie separately, since the email list will drop attachments! Report any problems you get with it to the Alpha email list. This list needs registration. Reporting bugs on this forum or any project's forum isn't very productive as the developers simply do not have time to scour through all forums looking for posts with your bug reports in them. While it may happen that we - other volunteers - forward your problem to them, history has shown it is quite difficult being the middle man in this when more information is needed from you. Hence why it's better for all concerned that you report the problem directly to the developers, who will come back directly to you when they need more information or better logs or to tell you that they've checked in a fix for the specific problem. The actual change log was taken from the Alpha email list and the Trac Timeline repository changes check-ins. This disclaimer was written by the volunteer moderators of this forum and approved of by the BOINC development team. Change Log 6.12.36 client (and API and manager): change the data structure used for system process info. -- Old: vector of PROCINFO. Descendants of a process were found by recursively iterating through the vector. Operations are O(n). -- New: map of (id, PROCINFO), and each PROCINFO has a vector of its children. Operations are O(log(n)) Also combined Mac/Win/Linux variants of code that was essentially the same. code shuffle. more code shuffling: -- proc_control: controlling processes. -- procinfo: enumerating and querying processes. -- run_app_windows: launching apps as other users on Win. client/API: Add a mechanism so that apps can report sub-processes that are not descendants (e.g., virtual machines). These processes are then counted as part of the app, not as "non-BOINC CPU time". This fixes a bug where processing was incorrectly suspended because CPU usage by VM apps exceeded the "CPU usage limit" pref. Implementation: -- The PIDs of the processes in question are passed from app to client via shared-memory, in the app_status channel. A new variant of boinc_report_app_status() supports this. -- The VBox wrapper queries the PID of the VM, and reports it in this way. -- Procinfo_app() includes a new argument: a list of PIDs that are part of the app, although not ancestrally related to the main process. -- In the client, ACTIVE_TASK now includes a vector "other_pids". If this is nonempty, it's passed to procinfo_app(). Fix build break Mac: add proc_control.cpp to XCode project. lib: if OS_Darwin use procinfo_mac.cpp instead of procinfo_unix.cpp. lib, api: update XCode project to build same source files in each library as corresponding make files. Change Log 6.12.37 vboxwrapper: report network usage to the client. client: include the above in enforcing network quota preferences for virtual machine wrappers. ID: 40298 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 39575 - Posted: 11 Aug 2011, 13:24:16 UTC BOINC 6.12.35 available for testing for Macintosh. Charlie Fenton wrote: I have released BOINC 6.12.35 for the Mac alpha testing. This fixes a couple more bugs for Mac OS 10.7 Lion: - An installer bug which sometimes caused BOINC to say it had a permissions error. - A bug which caused Lion to open BOINC's windows on system restart. It also adds a bit of code which is needed to support future Einstein@home GPU applications. The changes since 6.12.34 are for the Macintosh only. Please continue testing 6.12.34 on Windows and Linux. With your help, we would like to get it tested and released as soon as possible. Cheers, --Charlie Disclaimer On development versions of BOINC: - Expect parts of it to be broken, or in the least to work in a different way than you are used to. - Expect work failures, deadline misses and losing all your accumulated work in progress, or not getting credit for your work due to unknown and unforeseen circumstances. - Only use it when you are willing to participate in the Alpha test program and do not mind sending (bug) reports in to the developers on the email list specially assigned for this purpose. REMINDER TO ALL ALPHA TESTERS: It's far easier for the developers to fix problems when you send message logs with the appropriate flags set. The main flags are: <cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run. <work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much). <rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode. <sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information. Use these flags from the cc_config.xml file. When sending logs, make sure to CC David, Rom, or Charlie separately, since the email list will drop attachments! Report any problems you get with it to the Alpha email list. This list needs registration. Reporting bugs on this forum or any project's forum isn't very productive as the developers simply do not have time to scour through all forums looking for posts with your bug reports in them. While it may happen that we - other volunteers - forward your problem to them, history has shown it is quite difficult being the middle man in this when more information is needed from you. Hence why it's better for all concerned that you report the problem directly to the developers, who will come back directly to you when they need more information or better logs or to tell you that they've checked in a fix for the specific problem. The actual change log was taken from the Alpha email list and the Trac Timeline repository changes check-ins. This disclaimer was written by the volunteer moderators of this forum and approved of by the BOINC development team. Change Log: Mac Client: Call NSVersionOfRunTimeLibrary("cuda") to set cc.display_driver_version (from Oliver Bock.) Mac installer: Bug fixes for OS 10.7 Lion: LoginItemAPI.c did not set hidden properlty for login items, so use AppleScript instead, to prevent Lion from opening BOINC windows at system startup. Fix a bug I introduced on 8 August which prevented launching WaitPermissions.app. Mac uninstaller: Remove Charity Engine BOINC app if present. ID: 39575 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 39420 - Posted: 3 Aug 2011, 0:19:24 UTC - in response to Message 39346. Last modified: 3 Aug 2011, 0:20:24 UTC BOINC 6.12.34 released for testing for Macintosh. Charlie Fenton wrote: I have released BOINC 6.12.34 for alpha testing. This contains several fixes for Mac OS 10.7 Lion. With your help, we would like to get it tested and released as soon as possible. Note also that I have added OS 10.7 to the test matrix. Cheers, --Charlie Disclaimer On development versions of BOINC: - Expect parts of it to be broken, or in the least to work in a different way than you are used to. - Expect work failures, deadline misses and losing all your accumulated work in progress, or not getting credit for your work due to unknown and unforeseen circumstances. - Only use it when you are willing to participate in the Alpha test program and do not mind sending (bug) reports in to the developers on the email list specially assigned for this purpose. REMINDER TO ALL ALPHA TESTERS: It's far easier for the developers to fix problems when you send message logs with the appropriate flags set. The main flags are: <cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run. <work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much). <rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode. <sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information. Use these flags from the cc_config.xml file. When sending logs, make sure to CC David, Rom, or Charlie separately, since the email list will drop attachments! Report any problems you get with it to the Alpha email list. This list needs registration. Reporting bugs on this forum or any project's forum isn't very productive as the developers simply do not have time to scour through all forums looking for posts with your bug reports in them. While it may happen that we - other volunteers - forward your problem to them, history has shown it is quite difficult being the middle man in this when more information is needed from you. Hence why it's better for all concerned that you report the problem directly to the developers, who will come back directly to you when they need more information or better logs or to tell you that they've checked in a fix for the specific problem. The actual change log was taken from the Alpha email list and the Trac Timeline repository changes check-ins. This disclaimer was written by the volunteer moderators of this forum and approved of by the BOINC development team. Change Log: Mac: Fix bug where menubar icon menu did not work after changing skin. MGR: Fix "Can't load Image" messages in Simple View. SCR: Fix delay dismissing screensaver under Mac OS10.7. Mac installer: Work around bug in Mac OS 10.7 dscl merge command. ID: 39420 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 39395 - Posted: 1 Aug 2011, 19:41:50 UTC Rom Walton wrote: I've updated the installers for the 6.12.34 build, the older installer included an outdated zlib1.dll which caused boinc.exe to crash on some computers. If you experienced boinc.exe crashing, please re-download the installer and try again. The issue should be resolved now. ----- Rom ID: 39395 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 39346 - Posted: 29 Jul 2011, 0:54:03 UTC BOINC 6.12.34 released for testing for Windows and Linux Rom Walton wrote: Howdy Folks, We have a bug fix release for the 6.12 client. This release should no longer display the 'BOINC Diagnistics..." error dialog when the screensaver starts on some peoples machines for Windows. On Linux this build should now work on most Linux machines as OpenSSL has been statically linked in. Please give this build a try and report test results back via http://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha as quickly as possible. We would like to promote this build to a public release ASAP. Thanks in advance. ----- Rom Disclaimer On development versions of BOINC: - Expect parts of it to be broken, or in the least to work in a different way than you are used to. - Expect work failures, deadline misses and losing all your accumulated work in progress, or not getting credit for your work due to unknown and unforeseen circumstances. - Only use it when you are willing to participate in the Alpha test program and do not mind sending (bug) reports in to the developers on the email list specially assigned for this purpose. REMINDER TO ALL ALPHA TESTERS: It's far easier for the developers to fix problems when you send message logs with the appropriate flags set. The main flags are: <cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run. <work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much). <rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode. <sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information. Use these flags from the cc_config.xml file. Report any problems you get with it to the Alpha email list. This list needs registration. Reporting bugs on this forum or any project's forum isn't very productive as the developers simply do not have time to scour through all forums looking for posts with your bug reports in them. While it may happen that we - other volunteers - forward your problem to them, history has shown it is quite difficult being the middle man in this when more information is needed from you. Hence why it's better for all concerned that you report the problem directly to the developers, who will come back directly to you when they need more information or better logs or to tell you that they've checked in a fix for the specific problem. The actual change log was taken from the Alpha email list and the Trac Timeline repository changes check-ins. This disclaimer was written by the volunteer moderators of this forum and approved of by the BOINC development team. Change Log: WINSCR: Remove diagnostics screensaver dialog when the screensaver fails to be able open up the log files. Mac: Fix bug where menubar icon menu did not work after changing skin. Mac: Refine bug fix for menubar icon menu not working after changing skin. lib: Fix the various '????' fields in the diagnostics framework during a crash on Windows. Somewhere along the lines I messed up with the conversions of single-byte characters vs. double-byte characters. MGR: Fix "Can't load Image" messages in Simple View. SCR: Fix delay dismissing screensaver under Mac OS10.7. ID: 39346 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 38401 - Posted: 13 Jun 2011, 21:17:22 UTC They keep being bugged... So, for the new retry: BOINC 6.12.33 available for testing for Windows, Linux and Macintosh. Disclaimer On development versions of BOINC: - Expect parts of it to be broken, or in the least to work in a different way than you are used to. - Expect work failures, deadline misses and losing all your accumulated work in progress, or not getting credit for your work due to unknown and unforeseen circumstances. - Only use it when you are willing to participate in the Alpha test program and do not mind sending (bug) reports in to the developers on the email list specially assigned for this purpose. REMINDER TO ALL ALPHA TESTERS: It's far easier for the developers to fix problems when you send message logs with the appropriate flags set. The main flags are: <cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run. <work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much). <rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode. <sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information. Use these flags from the cc_config.xml file. Report any problems you get with it to the Alpha email list. This list needs registration. Reporting bugs on this forum or any project's forum isn't very productive as the developers simply do not have time to scour through all forums looking for posts with your bug reports in them. While it may happen that we - other volunteers - forward your problem to them, history has shown it is quite difficult being the middle man in this when more information is needed from you. Hence why it's better for all concerned that you report the problem directly to the developers, who will come back directly to you when they need more information or better logs or to tell you that they've checked in a fix for the specific problem. The actual change log was taken from the Alpha email list and the Trac Timeline repository changes check-ins. This disclaimer was written by the volunteer moderators of this forum and approved of by the BOINC development team. Change Log: MGR: Event Log menu item restores Event Log when Minimized; fixed on Mac and Windows XP, hopefully on other versions of Windows OS. client: fix bug in logic that defers work fetch if upload active. client: initialize some PROJECT fields (from Ian Hay). May fix bug in defer work fetch while uploading logic. I tell you, 6.12.36 has good vibes. That seems to be the winner... ;-) ID: 38401 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 38308 - Posted: 9 Jun 2011, 23:51:08 UTC Last modified: 10 Jun 2011, 23:40:37 UTC BOINC 6.12.32 retracted for Windows, Linux and Macintosh. Disclaimer On development versions of BOINC: - Expect parts of it to be broken, or in the least to work in a different way than you are used to. - Expect work failures, deadline misses and losing all your accumulated work in progress, or not getting credit for your work due to unknown and unforeseen circumstances. - Only use it when you are willing to participate in the Alpha test program and do not mind sending (bug) reports in to the developers on the email list specially assigned for this purpose. REMINDER TO ALL ALPHA TESTERS: It's far easier for the developers to fix problems when you send message logs with the appropriate flags set. The main flags are: <cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run. <work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much). <rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode. <sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information. Use these flags from the cc_config.xml file. Report any problems you get with it to the Alpha email list. This list needs registration. Reporting bugs on this forum or any project's forum isn't very productive as the developers simply do not have time to scour through all forums looking for posts with your bug reports in them. While it may happen that we - other volunteers - forward your problem to them, history has shown it is quite difficult being the middle man in this when more information is needed from you. Hence why it's better for all concerned that you report the problem directly to the developers, who will come back directly to you when they need more information or better logs or to tell you that they've checked in a fix for the specific problem. The actual change log was taken from the Alpha email list and the Trac Timeline repository changes check-ins. This disclaimer was written by the volunteer moderators of this forum and approved of by the BOINC development team. Change Log: MGR: Restore list view rules again. MGR: Revert wording in Exit and Properties dialogs so existing translations will work. MGR: Event Log menu item restores Event Log when Minimized. ID: 38308 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 38286 - Posted: 8 Jun 2011, 20:51:35 UTC Last modified: 10 Jun 2011, 23:40:16 UTC BOINC 6.12.30 retracted for Windows. BOINC 6.12.31 retracted for Linux and Macintosh. Disclaimer On development versions of BOINC: - Expect parts of it to be broken, or in the least to work in a different way than you are used to. - Expect work failures, deadline misses and losing all your accumulated work in progress, or not getting credit for your work due to unknown and unforeseen circumstances. - Only use it when you are willing to participate in the Alpha test program and do not mind sending (bug) reports in to the developers on the email list specially assigned for this purpose. REMINDER TO ALL ALPHA TESTERS: It's far easier for the developers to fix problems when you send message logs with the appropriate flags set. The main flags are: <cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run. <work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much). <rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode. <sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information. Use these flags from the cc_config.xml file. Report any problems you get with it to the Alpha email list. This list needs registration. Reporting bugs on this forum or any project's forum isn't very productive as the developers simply do not have time to scour through all forums looking for posts with your bug reports in them. While it may happen that we - other volunteers - forward your problem to them, history has shown it is quite difficult being the middle man in this when more information is needed from you. Hence why it's better for all concerned that you report the problem directly to the developers, who will come back directly to you when they need more information or better logs or to tell you that they've checked in a fix for the specific problem. The actual change log was taken from the Alpha email list and the Trac Timeline repository changes check-ins. This disclaimer was written by the volunteer moderators of this forum and approved of by the BOINC development team. Change Log 6.12.30: client: equate notices if their text is the same after removing digits, so that "need 25 GB disk" and "need 24 GB disk" don't result in 2 notices. client: if <ncpus> is specified in config file, set host_info.p_ncpus to that value, so that scheduler requests report that number of CPUs. client: when killing a nonresponsive task, kill its descendant processes too. client: Rom pointed out that on Win in secure mode, the client won't be able to convert descendant PIDs to handles, and therefore won't be able to terminate them. Sigh. So terminate the main process using its handle (we'll still kill descendants in the non-secure case). client: my checkin of 8 Apr 2011 didn't work in some cases, e.g.: client finishes a job before upload starts, work fetch runs and decides to fetch work from that project. Solution: set PROJECT::last_upload_start when job finishes, and clear it when a job is uploaded. Defer scheduler RPC for a limited time if last_upload_start is set, even if a transfer is not active. MGR: Fix bug introduced on 6 Aug 2010: if currently connected host name is empty string, we must treat it as localhost. Implement different logic to skip exit confirmation dialog and avoid shutting down client if second instance of Manager is launched but Select Computer dialog is canceled. MGR: Cleanup compiler warnings. Fixes [trac]#1051[/trac] (From: Steffen Möller). client: condition "Got server request to delete file" messages on <file_xfer_debug>. MGR: change simple view notices window title from Messages to Notices. client: fix boinc_make_dirs() (from Josh Highley). client: allow "non_cpu_intensive" to be specified independently for different apps in a project. This is intended to support projects that use the Attic file distribution system, which needs to have a daemon running. Mac: Add new procinfo.cpp to XCode Project. MGR: Use same exit confirmation dialog wording for Linux as for Windows. MGR: tweak strings related to task FLOP size. MGR: Fix About dialog to show (PowerPC) instead of (x86) when appropriate. MGR: Rework exit dialog, client shutdown logic for second Manager instance. Shut down local Client even If not connected to it. Change Log 6.12.31 MGR: Disable list view rules for now. ID: 38286 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 37994 - Posted: 25 May 2011, 17:48:26 UTC BOINC 6.12.28 available for testing for Windows, Linux and Macintosh. Disclaimer On development versions of BOINC: - Expect parts of it to be broken, or in the least to work in a different way than you are used to. - Expect work failures, deadline misses and losing all your accumulated work in progress, or not getting credit for your work due to unknown and unforeseen circumstances. - Only use it when you are willing to participate in the Alpha test program and do not mind sending (bug) reports in to the developers on the email list specially assigned for this purpose. REMINDER TO ALL ALPHA TESTERS: It's far easier for the developers to fix problems when you send message logs with the appropriate flags set. The main flags are: <cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run. <work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much). <rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode. <sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information. Use these flags from the cc_config.xml file. Report any problems you get with it to the Alpha email list. This list needs registration. Reporting bugs on this forum or any project's forum isn't very productive as the developers simply do not have time to scour through all forums looking for posts with your bug reports in them. While it may happen that we - other volunteers - forward your problem to them, history has shown it is quite difficult being the middle man in this when more information is needed from you. Hence why it's better for all concerned that you report the problem directly to the developers, who will come back directly to you when they need more information or better logs or to tell you that they've checked in a fix for the specific problem. The actual change log was taken from the Alpha email list and the Trac Timeline repository changes check-ins. This disclaimer was written by the volunteer moderators of this forum and approved of by the BOINC development team. Change Log: MGR: Fix shutting down of Client on Linux. client: escape only non-ASCII chars in stderr out, not control chars. ID: 37994 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 37953 - Posted: 24 May 2011, 0:04:16 UTC Last modified: 25 May 2011, 0:02:45 UTC BOINC 6.12.27 available for testing for Windows, Linux and Macintosh. Disclaimer On development versions of BOINC: - Expect parts of it to be broken, or in the least to work in a different way than you are used to. - Expect work failures, deadline misses and losing all your accumulated work in progress, or not getting credit for your work due to unknown and unforeseen circumstances. - Only use it when you are willing to participate in the Alpha test program and do not mind sending (bug) reports in to the developers on the email list specially assigned for this purpose. Rom Walton wrote: Howdy Folks, We have a new build in need of testing. This release should fix the test screensaver crash bug on the Mac as well as the link traversal crash on Linux. This release should resolve the failing to resume task instances when returning from hibernation issue on Windows as well as properly detecting the latest edition of VirtualBox. Please report bugs here and test results to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/. Thanks in advance. ----- Rom REMINDER TO ALL ALPHA TESTERS: It's far easier for the developers to fix problems when you send message logs with the appropriate flags set. The main flags are: <cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run. <work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much). <rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode. <sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information. Use these flags from the cc_config.xml file. Report any problems you get with it to the Alpha email list. This list needs registration. Reporting bugs on this forum or any project's forum isn't very productive as the developers simply do not have time to scour through all forums looking for posts with your bug reports in them. While it may happen that we - other volunteers - forward your problem to them, history has shown it is quite difficult being the middle man in this when more information is needed from you. Hence why it's better for all concerned that you report the problem directly to the developers, who will come back directly to you when they need more information or better logs or to tell you that they've checked in a fix for the specific problem. The actual change log was taken from the Alpha email list and the Trac Timeline repository changes check-ins. This disclaimer was written by the volunteer moderators of this forum and approved of by the BOINC development team. Change Log: client: Detect processor counts when the number of processors exceed 64 on Windows. client: change the handling of account manager replies: --> Old: If the AM sends us a project we're already attached to, and the authenticator is different, print an error message and don't change anything. --> Problem: If the AM is using weak authenticators, and the user has changed their password, the weak authenticator changes. In this case the AM will send the new weak auth, the client will ignore it, and all subsequent scheduler RPCs will fail until the user removes/adds the project. --> Solution: If the AM sends us a new auth for a project, use it. Note: From the time the password is changed on the project to the next AM RPC, the client will have a bad weak auth and scheduler RPCs will fail. That's OK. client: update to previous commit: only change the authenticator if both old and new authenticators are weak (strong authenticators don't change). client: add <http_transfer_timeout_bps> config option. Defines the transfer rate below which the connection is considered idle, and timeout starts. client: implement "report immediately" at the level of individual jobs rather than globally. To use this, projects must add <report_immediately/> to the <result> elements in job templates. client: don't check memory usage immediately after hibernation. client: show HTTP errors in text form as well as number. client: fix problem with recursion in dir_size(), this time for real. client/manager: don't show resource usage for non-CPU-intensive jobs. client: XML-escape the contents of stderr files; otherwise non-ASCII characters in client_state.xml make it invalid XML. client: fix (I think) to scheduling logic. A job is preemptable if it's finished its time slice and --> Old: has checkpointed in last 10 sec. --> New: has checkpointed since the end of the time slice. client: Account for new registry location that the new VirtualBox installer stashes the version number. Check the new location first, if not found go back to the original location. client: add log messages showing steps in exiting all tasks, enabled by <task_debug/> client: remove redundant task-start messages. client: on hibernate, don't wait for apps to exit (NCI apps never will). client: if project is set to "don't request more work", report completed tasks immediately. Mac SCR: Fix Mac crash bug when user clicks SS Test button in system preferences ID: 37953 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 37618 - Posted: 27 Apr 2011, 20:13:29 UTC Last modified: 29 Apr 2011, 1:20:25 UTC BOINC 6.12.26 available for testing for Windows, Linux and Macintosh. Rom Walton wrote: Howdy Folks, This build should fix some runtime estimate problems and some suspend/resume issues when hibernating. Unless a showstopper is found we'll be releasing this build to public as soon as the test pass is complete. Please report the test results as quickly as possible. Please run through the test cases specified here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_matrix.php Report test results here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_form.php Report bugs to the Alpha email list. Thanks in advance. ----- Rom Disclaimer On development versions of BOINC: - Expect parts of it to be broken, or in the least to work in a different way than you are used to. - Expect work failures, deadline misses and losing all your accumulated work in progress, or not getting credit for your work due to unknown and unforeseen circumstances. - Only use it when you are willing to participate in the Alpha test program and do not mind sending (bug) reports in to the developers on the email list specially assigned for this purpose. REMINDER TO ALL ALPHA TESTERS: It's far easier for the developers to fix problems when you send message logs with the appropriate flags set. The main flags are: <cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run. <work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much). <rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode. <sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information. Use these flags from the cc_config.xml file. Report any problems you get with it to the Alpha email list. This list needs registration. Reporting bugs on this forum or any project's forum isn't very productive as the developers simply do not have time to scour through all forums looking for posts with your bug reports in them. While it may happen that we - other volunteers - forward your problem to them, history has shown it is quite difficult being the middle man in this when more information is needed from you. Hence why it's better for all concerned that you report the problem directly to the developers, who will come back directly to you when they need more information or better logs or to tell you that they've checked in a fix for the specific problem. The actual change log was taken from the Alpha email list and the Trac Timeline repository changes check-ins. This disclaimer was written by the volunteer moderators of this forum and approved of by the BOINC development team. Change Log: client: don't use the Snooze mechanism to handle OS-requested suspension (especially with a 1-hour snooze period). Instead, handle them directly. client: fix bug: statement had no effect. client: show error messages from account managers correctly. client: win compile fix. client: fix bugs in runtime estimation of jobs that have run before but are not currently running. Old: -> We maintain the most recent fraction_done in state file. But for apps that checkpoint seldom or never, this is not the relevant value, and frac done may go down when the app runs. -> fraction_done_elapsed_time is not initialized, and can have garbage values for jobs that haven't run yet. New: -> Record, in the state file, the values of fraction_done and fraction_done_elapsed_time at the most recent checkpoint. When the client starts up, use these values. Fix Build Breaks. Mac: We no longer request PowerPC applications on Intel Macs because all projects supporting Macs should have Intel applications by now, and PowerPC emulation ("Rosetta") is not always supported in newer versions of OS X. ID: 37618 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 37587 - Posted: 25 Apr 2011, 20:39:48 UTC Last modified: 25 Apr 2011, 20:40:11 UTC BOINC 6.12.25 available for testing for Windows. BOINC 6.12.23 available for testing for Linux and Macintosh. Rom Walton wrote: Howdy Folks, The big fix for this release is with the notice feature. There was a bug that caused news feeds to be deleted every other scheduler request to the project server. Fixing this bug should reduce quite a few of the bogus new notice balloons when nothing new is displayed. Please report bugs here and test results to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha Thanks in advance. ----- Rom Rom Walton wrote: Okay, this build (6.12.25) should now be working on all supported versions of Windows. Please report bugs here and test results to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha. Thanks in advance. ----- Rom Disclaimer On development versions of BOINC: - Expect parts of it to be broken, or in the least to work in a different way than you are used to. - Expect work failures, deadline misses and losing all your accumulated work in progress, or not getting credit for your work due to unknown and unforeseen circumstances. - Only use it when you are willing to participate in the Alpha test program and do not mind sending (bug) reports in to the developers on the email list specially assigned for this purpose. REMINDER TO ALL ALPHA TESTERS: It's far easier for the developers to fix problems when you send message logs with the appropriate flags set. The main flags are: <cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run. <work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much). <rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode. <sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information. Use these flags from the cc_config.xml file. Report any problems you get with it to the Alpha email list. This list needs registration. Reporting bugs on this forum or any project's forum isn't very productive as the developers simply do not have time to scour through all forums looking for posts with your bug reports in them. While it may happen that we - other volunteers - forward your problem to them, history has shown it is quite difficult being the middle man in this when more information is needed from you. Hence why it's better for all concerned that you report the problem directly to the developers, who will come back directly to you when they need more information or better logs or to tell you that they've checked in a fix for the specific problem. The actual change log was taken from the Alpha email list and the Trac Timeline repository changes check-ins. This disclaimer was written by the volunteer moderators of this forum and approved of by the BOINC development team. Change Log: client: if PREFS::max_ncpus_pct is 0, don't set it to 100; doing so prevents PREFS::max_ncpus from having any effect. client: defer reporting completed tasks if an upload started recently; we might be able to report more tasks once the upload completes. MGR: Remove unneeded asserts. MGR: Add missing keyboard accelerators for the event log. MGR: Re-enable the next button when the terms of use wizard page when the back button is pressed. client: add <heartbeat_debug> log flag client: show trickle-up and int file upload msgs if <app_msg_receive> set client: if scheduler RPC reason is trickle-up, say so (from Ian Hay) MGR: restore "non CPU intensive" to task description MGR: project properties: show if RPC in progress or trickle-up pending. (show these low-probability things only if present) (from Ian Hay) MGR: Check to see if keyboard accelerators can be redefined on the fly. MGR: Add missing event handler map item. client: fix bug that cause notice RSS feeds to disappear and reappear, and notices to erroneously be shown as new. client: when estimating job runtime based on fraction done, use the elapsed time when fraction done was last reported, not current elapsed time. Fix problem where est time remaining increases linearly, then abruptly decreases when new frac done is reported. From Bruce Allen. client: fix a couple of the messages that are appended to a job's stderr when the job is aborted client: replace % with %% in messages from scheduler (else they're interpreted as format strings) MGR: Adjust the width of the various tabs in advanced view if the notice text width changes. MGR: Remove dead code. client/MGR: Rebuilt all libraries and update the Windows installer package to account for latest Windows patches.S ID: 37587 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 37570 - Posted: 24 Apr 2011, 2:15:56 UTC BOINC 6.12.24 available for testing for Windows. But don't install it, it'll give runtime errors on BOINC Manager on just about any system with Windows Vista or better. Wait for 6.12.25 ID: 37570 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15483	Message 37549 - Posted: 20 Apr 2011, 22:26:48 UTC Last modified: 21 Apr 2011, 23:24:38 UTC BOINC 6.12.23 has been retracted from testing for Windows, Linux and Macintosh. Rom Walton wrote: URGENT Abort trying to install this build for right now... I'll have a new build out tomorrow. MS released new versions of their C Runtime Library which are different then what libcurl, zlib, and OpenSSL are linked against. I have to rebuild all those libraries and update the installer package to account for these latest Windows patches. ----- Rom ID: 37549 ·

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