I diabled BOINC network access 4 days ago. I reenabled network access and clicked on the "update" function and this is the reply I get every time:

Sending request to scheduler: http//climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi

Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded

SCHEDULER_REPLY::parse(): bad first tag Content-type: text/plain

Can't parse scheduler reply

Deferring communication with project for 2 hours....

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What's happening? How can I fix this?

I haven't had a problem before with BOINC. I have on WU completed and my computer is still computing fine with over 67% done on the current WU.

I am running BOINC version 4.19 on windows 2000 sp4. I am using an AMD 64 +3200 processor.

Any help?

Hayden

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There was a problem at the scheduler end Hayden. I've just successfully trickled, so I guess it's fixed now.

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"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

More can't parse scheduler reply today...

climateprediction.net - 2005-03-15 07:56:15 - Deferring communication with project for 19 seconds
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-15 07:56:34 - Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-15 07:56:44 - Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-15 07:56:44 - SCHEDULER_REPLY::parse(): bad first tag Content-type: text/plain
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-15 07:56:44 - Can't parse scheduler reply
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-15 07:56:44 - Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 8 seconds
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-15 07:57:52 - Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-15 07:58:07 - Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-15 07:58:07 - SCHEDULER_REPLY::parse(): bad first tag Content-type: text/plain
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-15 07:58:07 - Can't parse scheduler reply
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-15 07:58:07 - Deferring communication with project for 4 minutes and 10 seconds

geophi

I think it's a scheduler problem. The project is down at the moment, so they may be working on it.
And the server is having trouble handling messages.


Les

It looks like there's a problem with what's being returned when the project has been taken down. Here's the contents of the reply I just got (I've changed the <> pairs to {}).

<b>Content-type: text/plain

{scheduler_reply}
{message priority="low"}Server can't open database{/message}
{request_delay}3600{/request_delay}
{project_is_down/}
{/scheduler_reply}
{scheduler_reply}
{project_name&gt;climateprediction.net}/project_name}
{host_total_credit}0.000000{/host_total_credit}
{host_expavg_credit}0.000000{/host_expavg_credit}
{host_venue}{/host_venue}
{host_create_time}0{/host_create_time}
{/scheduler_reply}</b>

Looking at the HTTP protocol in Ethereal there are 2 <b>Content-type: text/plain</b> lines in the message sent by the scheduler, with neither being in the data block. This is definitely a problem with the way the BOINC client (in my case 4.19) is parsing the reply.

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"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Content-type: text/plain \\r\\n\\r\\n" is a HTTP Content header that's usually sent out by CGI programs (e.g. the "server" application) through the http server to declare what type of content there is. If you don't send this out the first time, you get HTTP 500 errors. However, if you send it too late, or you send it twice, you get one ending up in the actual "content".

I think this is probably a server bug, and should be noted to someone. I bet the Web Server that the CGI app is running on is sending out "emergancy" or other Content-Type headers by default, and the CGI app/server is sending out extra ones. In that case, one set should be disabled.

Either way, we can't get new work units or whatever, which is a bummer (especially since I can't add the project until BOINC gets a decent reply for the first time from a server).

I'm still getting "Server can't open database" errors (even without the parse errors), so... maybe the server is overloaded? If that's the case, is there anything we can do about it?

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Considering how many people have submitted this question, I think that maybe this error message is an intermittant error that many people are getting that has to do with server overload. Could be that the database server(s) need to be upgraded or that a new server needs to be added to a database server cluster or something. As much as I want to help the ClimatePrediction.Net project, if I can't sign in with BOINC and get work units, what am I supposed to do?

(OT: Is there any way to consolidate forum topics?)

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I've sent details of the problem to the BOINC development mailing list.

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"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Not the same but possibly symptomatic? (From an attempt to connect to "Project Stats" to view completed models.)

Generated on 2005-03-15 10:05:14 UTC
Warning: mysql_pconnect(): Too many connections in /websites/boinc/projects/cpdnboinc/html/inc/db.inc on line 16 Unable to connect to database - please try again later Error: 1040Too many connections

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&gt; Not the same but possibly symptomatic? (From an attempt to connect to
&gt; "Project Stats" to view completed models.)
&gt;
&gt; Generated on 2005-03-15 10:05:14 UTC
&gt; Warning: mysql_pconnect(): Too many connections in
&gt; /websites/boinc/projects/cpdnboinc/html/inc/db.inc on line 16 Unable to
&gt; connect to database - please try again later Error: 1040Too many connections

I've been getting the same problem off and on for the past couple of days. I've started taking a copy of posts before submitting them to avoid having to re-type if the submit fails.

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"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I had the "too many connections" problem a few hours a go. It started while I was trying to upload the post I had written.
I noticed then, and a few weeks ago, that the message I was trying to post GOT posted, but the server wouldn't
let me back in for, perhaps, 10 minutes. With the recent problem, I gave up and logged off. When I finally got back, the message was there.

I too have learned to copy and paste the message to WinWord.

Les