1) Message boards : BOINC client : Why can't BOINC report results when it completes them? (Message 3140) Posted 17 Feb 2006 by Roger Chadbourne Post: I was about to query the same thing - I loaded SETI over ten days ago, and after an initial hiccup, it runs well. Not sure I like the "improved" graphics, so much! The problem is that I ended up with four or five completed work units, and an indication that communication had been attemted to download the results which had failed. Rosetta and Einstein operated normally, ran, uploaded and downloade, but the completed SETI units sat there unnoticed and unwanted. Until today. They disappeared. So I checked the stats - no of work units completed - 0.00. OOPS! Secondary problem, probably unconnected, but machine now "freezes" when on standby and has to be reset using the reset button. It matters not whether machine set to go to standby after 10 minutes or 10 hours, it still freezes. This did not happen pre-BOINC. Problem is that it is then impossible to see what has happened as all messages are lost. (AMD Duron 1.3, 224 Mb RAM, Win 98SE)

2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinc is idle (Message 1996) Posted 16 Dec 2005 by Roger Chadbourne Post: Sorry, should have made it clearer. Deleting the hex key and adding a blank line to "gui_rpc_auth.cfg" with Notepad is what fixed it. I had already shut the machine down several times over the previous days to know that that method, while it seems to solve an awful lot of problems, would not work! Again, many thanks. Roger You SHALL go to the ball, Cinderella!! It works!!! Many thanks for your useful advice. That's great! It would be helpful if you let us know which fix worked, but of main importance is that you've been saved from the dreaded Distributed Computing Withdrawal Syndrome. ;-) Michael [/quote]

3) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinc is idle (Message 1994) Posted 16 Dec 2005 by Roger Chadbourne Post: You SHALL go to the ball, Cinderella!! It works!!! I have one small reservation - I had selected "Run Always" to get it going (12:11pm), and it spent the next twenty minutes or so telling me that it was downloading two units, (progress 0%)and running another (progress 30%). The modem was patently downloading nothing, so rather than interrupt whatever was going on, I just left it. Some time later, trying to do some work - (yes, I do work for a living sometimes!!)I noted that everything had slowed down - a quick check told ne that I had less than 16Mb of unused memory. So, downloading or not, I reverted to "Run based on preferences." During a break, I returned to find Rosetti screensaver blasting away merrily. Fantastic. Checked the manager, and found the following: 16/12/05 12:08:33||Starting BOINC client version 5.2.13 for windows_intelx86 16/12/05 12:08:33||libcurl/7.14.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8 zlib/1.2.3 16/12/05 12:08:33||Data directory: C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\BOINC 16/12/05 12:08:34||Processor: 1 AuthenticAMD AMD Duron(tm) processor 16/12/05 12:08:34||Memory: 223.43 MB physical, 1.78 GB virtual 16/12/05 12:08:34||Disk: 18.67 GB total, 13.86 GB free 16/12/05 12:08:34|rosetta@home|Computer ID: 101989; location: home; project prefs: default 16/12/05 12:08:34||General prefs: from rosetta@home (last modified 2005-12-15 03:12:10) 16/12/05 12:08:34||General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 16/12/05 12:08:36||Remote control not allowed; using loopback address 16/12/05 12:11:42|rosetta@home|Resuming computation for result 1n0u__topology_sample_115951_0 using rosetta version 480 16/12/05 12:11:42||Resuming computation and network activity 16/12/05 12:11:42||request_reschedule_cpus: Resuming activities 16/12/05 12:11:42|rosetta@home|Started download of aa1hz6A09_05.200_v1_3.gz 16/12/05 12:11:42|rosetta@home|Started download of 1hz6.pdb.gz 16/12/05 12:12:29|rosetta@home|Sending scheduler request to http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi 16/12/05 12:12:29|rosetta@home|Reason: To fetch work 16/12/05 12:12:29|rosetta@home|Requesting 24508 seconds of new work 16/12/05 12:12:34|rosetta@home|Scheduler request to http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi succeeded 16/12/05 12:12:36||request_reschedule_cpus: files downloaded 16/12/05 12:36:16||Suspending computation and network activity - user is active 16/12/05 12:36:16|rosetta@home|Pausing result 1n0u__topology_sample_115951_0 (removed from memory) 16/12/05 13:22:22||Resuming computation and network activity 16/12/05 13:22:22||request_reschedule_cpus: Resuming activities 16/12/05 13:22:22|rosetta@home|Started download of aa1hz6A09_05.200_v1_3.gz 16/12/05 13:22:22|rosetta@home|Started download of 1hz6.pdb.gz 16/12/05 13:22:22|rosetta@home|Resuming result 1n0u__topology_sample_115951_0 using rosetta version 480 16/12/05 13:22:23|rosetta@home|Finished download of 1hz6.pdb.gz 16/12/05 13:22:23|rosetta@home|Throughput 11850 bytes/sec 16/12/05 13:22:23|rosetta@home|Started download of 1hz6.top7_lowenergy.cst 16/12/05 13:22:26|rosetta@home|Finished download of 1hz6.top7_lowenergy.cst 16/12/05 13:22:26|rosetta@home|Throughput 10706 bytes/sec 16/12/05 13:22:36|rosetta@home|Finished download of aa1hz6A09_05.200_v1_3.gz 16/12/05 13:22:36|rosetta@home|Throughput 108931 bytes/sec 16/12/05 13:22:37||request_reschedule_cpus: files downloaded 16/12/05 13:23:48||Suspending computation and network activity - user is active 16/12/05 13:23:48|rosetta@home|Pausing result 1n0u__topology_sample_115951_0 (removed from memory) So, it appears to be working although the status information looks a little misleading. I can live with that. I think that, unless you consider that something else is wrong, I'll live with it as it is for a week or so, and if happy, will try loading SETI as well and see what happens. Many thanks for your useful advice.

4) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinc is idle (Message 1936) Posted 15 Dec 2005 by Roger Chadbourne Post: OK, OK, so maybe I was frustrated and angry that I had lost an old friend - that still doesn't allow for the fact that it will not work and there seems to be no help around capable of sorting the problem. Not being a quitter (as suggested)I started again from scratch, registering with Rosetti. Nothing happened - I was getting messages that some sort of interface was being attempted, and then failing. Finally, one attempt worked, and loads of data and material is downloaded. Because I had clicked on the "Update" button three times in previous attempts, I received three work units. New Problem No 1 - it only works if I have "Run Always" command selected. I have tried shutting down antivirus and firewall, Spybot, etc, and checking that no other process is working - screensaver still says BOINC is idle. New Problem No 2.It seems, now, incapable of communicating with the server. Work unit 1 completed, and attempts made to return result. Monitoring modem shows no activity. It has now completed all three units, and is unable to send results or access new work. 15/12/05 12:46:21||Starting BOINC client version 5.2.13 for windows_intelx86 15/12/05 12:46:21||libcurl/7.14.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8 zlib/1.2.3 15/12/05 12:46:21||Data directory: C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\BOINC 15/12/05 12:46:21||Processor: 1 AuthenticAMD AMD Duron(tm) processor 15/12/05 12:46:21||Memory: 223.43 MB physical, 1.78 GB virtual 15/12/05 12:46:21||Disk: 18.67 GB total, 13.96 GB free 15/12/05 12:46:21|rosetta@home|Computer ID: 101989; location: home; project prefs: default 15/12/05 12:46:21||General prefs: from rosetta@home (last modified 2005-12-14 17:49:58) 15/12/05 12:46:21||General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 15/12/05 12:46:23||Remote control not allowed; using loopback address 15/12/05 12:46:23|rosetta@home|Sending scheduler request to http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi 15/12/05 12:46:23|rosetta@home|Reason: Requested by user 15/12/05 12:46:23|rosetta@home|Requesting 259200 seconds of new work, and reporting 3 results 15/12/05 12:46:48||Suspending computation and network activity - user is active 15/12/05 12:47:42||Resuming computation and network activity 15/12/05 12:47:42||request_reschedule_cpus: Resuming activities 15/12/05 12:51:30||Suspending computation and network activity - user is active 15/12/05 13:28:15||Resuming computation and network activity 15/12/05 13:28:15||request_reschedule_cpus: Resuming activities 15/12/05 13:31:09||Suspending computation and network activity - user is active 15/12/05 13:32:51||Resuming computation and network activity 15/12/05 13:32:51||request_reschedule_cpus: Resuming activities 15/12/05 15:33:18||request_reschedule_cpus: project op 15/12/05 15:33:23||request_reschedule_cpus: project op I've had to switch back to preferences to use the machine for other tasks - leaving BOINC on "Run Always" slows everything else down and has caused freezing. Currently, as I write this, it's active. During this message, I left the machine for 10 minutes and the "BOINC is idle" screensaver came up. Broadband modem remained inactive the whole time. Any ideas?

5) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinc is idle (Message 1855) Posted 13 Dec 2005 by Roger Chadbourne Post: I have been a member of the SETI project since it started. Every time my computer had a rebuild or major overhaul and I had to reload, SETI forgot me. That is to say, it refused to acknowledge my existance or previous registration. Despite this, it refused my Email address as "an account in that name already exists". Of course it exists - ITS ME!! However, I always found a way around it. Not interested in personal targets or unit credits or whatever, not too fussed when all previous units discounted and I always restarted from zero. Tried BOINC once. It screwed up my computer and didn't work. Dumped it and reloaded the "old" programme, which worked just fine. You really have got it all screwed up, haven't you? Old sysytem closing down - load BOINC. So far, so good. Follow one of the worst "Help" files I have ever seen to set it up. (By the way guys, should I mention that half the buttons that you describe either do not exist or are, in fact, called something else?) Register. Guess what.I don't exist. Try putting in details - "an account in that name already exists." Am I surprised? Find the original key. It fits, Dandidni, it fits! Set up preferences. OK. Six hours later, and all I have is a little bouncing logo saying that BOINC is idle. Idle is not quite the word that I would use. Try to log in to message board. Guess what - I STILL DON'T EXIST!! Persevere, reregister (AGAIN!) and access this panel, which I will simply use to say: GOODBYE, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH.

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