For some unknown reason my seti project has renamed itself as climate prediction project this is what I get when I try to send a completed work unit to seti.

Anybody got any bright ideas how to fix this
resetting the project may affect the climate prediction unit that I am crunching

climateprediction.net - 2005-03-02 21:55:36 - Requesting 8027 seconds of work
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-02 21:55:36 - Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-02 21:55:39 - Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-02 21:55:39 - Message from server: Invalid or missing account ID. Visit this project's web site to get an account ID.
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-02 21:55:39 - No work from project
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-02 21:55:39 - Deferring communication with project for 1 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds

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I don't see anything about SETI in your log - there is a CPDN project, CPDN servers etc.
Bright idea? Somebody had dettached your computer from SETI and put it on CPDN :-)

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I think I remember this problem with early versions of BOINC like 4.05 and ealier. What version are you running?

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&gt; For some unknown reason my seti project has renamed itself as climate
&gt; prediction project this is what I get when I try to send a completed work unit
&gt; to seti.

I can only say the same as Honza concerning the proclaimed kidnap, but trying to contact Seti is not a good idea ATM. It's down again because of a power outage in the whole building. No data loss this time ;), but nevertheless no contact since 28/02/05, 18:00 UTC.

The only idea I have is this:
I've just read in two other fora something similar:
<a href="http://predictor1.scripps.edu/forum_thread.php?id=1351">Here @Predictor</a> and <a href="http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=1181">Here @Einstein</a>

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Grüße vom Sänger

Hi,
I had this problem once with LHC &amp; CPDN under BOINC 4.05 or 4.09 (don't remember well). LHC was doing test and each time I tried to have LHC work, boinc contacted CPDN.
I don't why.

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Arnaud

Thanks guys nice to know i'm not alone not much we can do until seti resumes I suppose.
Honza trust me it's a seti project trying to connect to cpdn in fact it has renamed itself as a cpdn project. You don't often see cpdn projects requesting 8000 seconds of work.
I am running 4 projects on this particular computer
(well I was )
seti is renamed cpdn
predictor tries to contact cpdn
cpdn and einstein seem to be ok (touch wood)

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Try a manual update on the renamed projects under the 'projects' tab of the BOINC GUI - when this particular problem was rife with an older version of BOINC, that action fixed the problem for at least one user AFAICR.

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Thanks Nick I will when seti is up again
It didnt work with predictor though

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&gt; Thanks Nick I will when seti is up again
&gt; It didnt work with predictor though

propably an error in the client_state.xml file. Does the client show the correct amount of credits for the renamed seti?

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Bruno
I will check it out when I get home from work
I suspect it does as the projects tab shows two cpdn projects running one with 114562.5 of credits which is seti
the other with 7088.81 which is correct for cpdn

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&gt; Bruno
&gt; I will check it out when I get home from work
&gt; I suspect it does as the projects tab shows two cpdn projects running one
&gt; with 114562.5 of credits which is seti
&gt; the other with 7088.81 which is correct for cpdn

If that is the case you should be able to correct it manully. First take a note of the credit amount listed on the projects tab for the seti project. You would then need to close the BOINC client while opening client_state.xml in a text editor (not Word or something like that, use notepad or similar). Make a back-up of the file just in case.

Search for the occurance of the credit amount. If you find it next to a string that says user_total_credit&gt;, you have found the seti project settings.

A little above the total credit amount you will find a string that say master_url&gt;

If it is followed by http://climateprediction.net/ it should be changed to http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

The line just below is project_name&gt; - if it is followed by climateprediction.net it should be changed to SETI@home

A bit further down, below the user credits, you will find a string that says scheduler_url&gt;

If it is followed by http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi then it should be changed to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi

This should help - if it doesn't, close the BOINC client emediatly and restored the backed up client_state.xml file.

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Thanks Bruno will try it when I get home and post the result

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but be careful do'nt change areas enclosed in signed_xml&gt; tags.

&gt; but be careful do'nt change areas enclosed in signed_xml&gt; tags.

right. Aleays be careful editing the client_state.xml file - that can't be emphasized enough

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Hi,
Just to confirm that the problem exists:

climateprediction.net - 2005-03-05 17:24:43 - Sending request to scheduler: http://burp.xxxxxxx/burp_cgi/cgi
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-05 17:24:49 - Scheduler RPC to http://burp.xxxxxxxx/burp_cgi/cgi failed
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-05 17:24:49 - Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-05 17:24:54 - Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-05 17:24:54 - Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults

First, CPDN tries to contact Burp (Alpha URL modified with xxxxxx) and then after failure contact CPDN scheduler.

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Arnaud

&gt; Thanks Bruno will try it when I get home and post the result

That red seti in my sig just have to get green soon - I'm anxious to know how it goes...

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