So we are (finally) ramping up our boinc contributions, and ive got a weird problem. I have 20+ hosts on the other side of a VPN that are working fine. I have 14 hosts i've tried to add recently that are not working at all. I'm using boinctasks to manage the clients, and BT conencts fine, and correctly reports no tasks ever get assisnged. I initially thought this a fault with boinc tasks, but now i think it's boinc. All hosts are the same motherboard/processor/ram/harddrive/video card/OS.
So this is what i have in my stdoutdea.txt

5-Nov-2012 20:05:50 [PrimeGrid] Message from server: 321 (LLR) needs 114.44MB more disk space.  You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 114.44 MB.
05-Nov-2012 20:05:50 [PrimeGrid] Message from server: PPS (Sieve) needs 476.84MB more disk space.  You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 476.84 MB.
05-Nov-2012 20:05:50 [PrimeGrid] Message from server: PPS (LLR) needs 114.44MB more disk space.  You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 114.44 MB.
05-Nov-2012 20:05:50 [PrimeGrid] Message from server: The Riesel Problem (Sieve) needs 190.73MB more disk space.  You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 190.73 MB.
05-Nov-2012 20:05:50 [PrimeGrid] Message from server: Sophie Germain (LLR) needs 114.44MB more disk space.  You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 114.44 MB.
05-Nov-2012 20:05:50 [PrimeGrid] Message from server: Woodall (LLR) needs 114.44MB more disk space.  You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 114.44 MB.
05-Nov-2012 20:05:50 [PrimeGrid] Message from server: Cullen (LLR) needs 114.44MB more disk space.  You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 114.44 MB.
05-Nov-2012 20:05:50 [PrimeGrid] Message from server: Seventeen or Bust needs 114.44MB more disk space.  You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 114.44 MB.
05-Nov-2012 20:05:50 [PrimeGrid] Message from server: The Riesel Problem (LLR) needs 114.44MB more disk space.  You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 114.44 MB.
05-Nov-2012 20:05:50 [PrimeGrid] Message from server: Genefer needs 247.96MB more disk space.  You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 247.96 MB.
05-Nov-2012 20:05:50 [PrimeGrid] Message from server: Prime Sierpinski Problem (LLR) needs 114.44MB more disk space.  You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 114.44 MB.
05-Nov-2012 20:05:50 [PrimeGrid] Message from server: Genefer (World Record) needs 381.47MB more disk space.  You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 381.47 MB.
05-Nov-2012 20:05:55 [DistrRTgen] Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
05-Nov-2012 20:05:55 [DistrRTgen] Requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU
05-Nov-2012 20:06:00 [DistrRTgen] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
05-Nov-2012 20:06:00 [DistrRTgen] Message from server: No tasks sent
05-Nov-2012 20:06:00 [DistrRTgen] Message from server: Distributed Rainbow Table Generator (distrrtgen) needs 95.37MB more disk space.  You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 95.37 MB.

Makes it look simple to me, right? however there is also this( every time is start boinc)

 05-Nov-2012 19:52:06 [---] OS: Linux: 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64
05-Nov-2012 19:52:06 [---] Memory: 31.32 GB physical, 128.00 GB virtual
05-Nov-2012 19:52:06 [---] Disk: 1.67 TB total, 1.55 TB free
05-Nov-2012 19:52:06 [---] Local time is UTC -5 hours
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [---] NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 690 (driver version unknown, CUDA version 5000, compute capability 3.0, 2048MB, 522 GFLOPS peak)
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [---] NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 690 (driver version unknown, CUDA version 5000, compute capability 3.0, 2047MB, 522 GFLOPS peak)
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [---] NVIDIA GPU 2: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version unknown, CUDA version 5000, compute capability 3.0, 2048MB, 542 GFLOPS peak)
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [GPUGRID] URL http://www.gpugrid.net/; Computer ID 137720; resource share 10000
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [Collatz Conjecture] URL http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/; Computer ID 114264; resource share 10000
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [PrimeGrid] URL http://www.primegrid.com/; Computer ID 300527; resource share 10000
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [DistrRTgen] URL http://boinc.freerainbowtables.com/distrrtgen/; Computer ID 52178; resource share 10000
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [---] General prefs: from http://bam.boincstats.com/ (last modified 29-Oct-2012 12:26:38)
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [---] Host location: none
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [---] General prefs: using your defaults
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [---] Preferences:
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [---]    max memory usage when active: 16037.78MB
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [---]    max memory usage when idle: 28868.00MB
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [---]    max disk usage: 10.00GB
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [---]    don't compute while active
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [---]    don't use GPU while active
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [---]    suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [---]    (to change, visit the web site of an attached project,
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [---]    or click on Preferences)
05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [---] Not using a proxy

so now what? df -h shows:
/dev/sda3 1.7T 33G 1.6T 2% /
tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 194M 32M 152M 18% /boot

swap file is empty, ram usaged is at 14 gigs out of 32, and the folder boinc is run from (home folder) is at 3.9 gigs. This folder holds a lot more than just boinc. ive tried running both as the local user, as sudo, and as root.

Im out of idea's, anyone care to take a stab at it?

Im out of idea's, anyone care to take a stab at it?

You're run out of disk space, change your computing preferences to allocate some more, there are three preferences that could be limiting disk usage:

Disk: use at most                     10 GB 

Disk: leave free at least 
Values smaller than 0.001 are ignored 0.1 GB 

Disk: use at most                     50% of total

Try increasing the 'Disk: use at most' to 20 GB first, then increasing the 'Disk: use at most' to 60% of total.

Edit: and while you're at it i'd upgrade all those hosts away from Boinc 6.10.45, that was still a Buggy Alpha release, better to use 6.10.58 or 6.10.60 Minimum.

Claggy

Any way to do this with the boinc manager being installed on the local machine? I'm not seeing what im looking for in the the xml files. Nor can i see it from boinccmd --help, or as a boinc switch. These boxes are used for their gpu computing, however, they don't have the requirements for the manager.

        libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0()(64bit) is needed by boinc-manager-6.10.45-1.r21128svn.el6.x86_64
        libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0(WXU_2.8)(64bit) is needed by boinc-manager-6.10.45-1.r21128svn.el6.x86_64
        libwx_baseu_net-2.8.so.0()(64bit) is needed by boinc-manager-6.10.45-1.r21128svn.el6.x86_64
        libwx_baseu_net-2.8.so.0(WXU_2.8)(64bit) is needed by boinc-manager-6.10.45-1.r21128svn.el6.x86_64
        libwx_baseu_xml-2.8.so.0()(64bit) is needed by boinc-manager-6.10.45-1.r21128svn.el6.x86_64
        libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.8.so.0()(64bit) is needed by boinc-manager-6.10.45-1.r21128svn.el6.x86_64
        libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.8.so.0(WXU_2.8)(64bit) is needed by boinc-manager-6.10.45-1.r21128svn.el6.x86_64
        libwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8.so.0()(64bit) is needed by boinc-manager-6.10.45-1.r21128svn.el6.x86_64
        libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0()(64bit) is needed by boinc-manager-6.10.45-1.r21128svn.el6.x86_64
        libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0(WXU_2.8)(64bit) is needed by boinc-manager-6.10.45-1.r21128svn.el6.x86_64
        libwx_gtk2u_html-2.8.so.0()(64bit) is needed by boinc-manager-6.10.45-1.r21128svn.el6.x86_64
        libwx_gtk2u_html-2.8.so.0(WXU_2.8)(64bit) is needed by boinc-manager-6.10.45-1.r21128svn.el6.x86_64
        libwx_gtk2u_qa-2.8.so.0()(64bit) is needed by boinc-manager-6.10.45-1.r21128svn.el6.x86_64
        libwx_gtk2u_richtext-2.8.so.0()(64bit) is needed by boinc-manager-6.10.45-1.r21128svn.el6.x86_64
        libwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.8.so.0()(64bit) is needed by boinc-manager-6.10.45-1.r21128svn.el6.x86_64

In the mean time, i'll try to find an updated version, but it was hard enough tracking down this rpm for rhel 6.3. i thin it's actually an rpm i copied off a fedora machine. Any suggestions for an easy upgrade on rhel?

Computing preferences are eithier set at one of your projects, for instance at the Computing preferences at PrimeGrid, these are a Global preference, you only need to apply them at one project, they then affect all your projects,
note: you have four available sets of computing preferences (default, home, school and work), so you can tailer you're preferences to your hosts, you just have to move the host to the right venue,
Or you can use Local Preferences from within Boinc Manager, these overide your Web based Computing preferences, but since you're seem to be using Computing Preferences from http://bam.boincstats.com you should adjust them there:

05-Nov-2012 19:52:07 [---] General prefs: from http://bam.boincstats.com/ (last modified 29-Oct-2012 12:26:38)

Claggy

Any way to do this with the boinc manager being installed on the local machine?

BoincTasks: Select the right machine in the computer sidebar, next: Extra->BOINC preference, select the Disk tab.

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TThrottle The way to control your CPU and GPU temperature.
BoincTasks The best view of BOINC.
My other activities

BoincTasks:

Select the Projects tab.
Select the project line and click on the right mouse button.
Choose "properties"

The disk info can be found at the end of the list.

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TThrottle The way to control your CPU and GPU temperature.
BoincTasks The best view of BOINC.
My other activities

Thanks you guys for your help. The response was great and just what i needed.

Just as an update this is what i did to fix the problem. I didn't have access to the boinc tasks machine, i only had ssh access to the machines. So I logged on to GPU grid's website, updated the preferences to allow 100 gigs of disk space use. I then logged into to each client and issued this command:

for url in $(boinccmd --get_project_status | sed -n 's/\s*master URL: //p'); do   boinccmd --project ${url} update; done

All jobless clients updated them selves and requested and received jobs. Thanks again you guys.