I have been running climateprediction programs for about a year, using a version 4 of your program.

I upgraded a week or so ago with a new 250G hard drive and a re-install of Windows XP. I have not had much success in reconnecting. Reading your website, I saw that you recommended version 5. I removed the old version 4, and downloaded v. 5. I thought I have done everything to re-connect, but my message tab on BOINC Manager shows a recent lack of activity, the last message being: Fetching config from http://www.climateprediction.net/get_project_config.php , following which I have had nothing.

Reading further on your pages, I also realise that I have been a naughty boy in not shutting down BOINC before switching off the machine, and various other misdemeanours. I hope these actions have not proved fatal or ionconvenient; if so, my apologies.

Help, please!

Alan Wood email: alanandval@ntlworld.com
Account No: cfd252d81fb0d48e2f7c581350726eee

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Did you uninstall 4.19 using add remove feature of windows? Your acct shows you contacted the server on the 13th and all the WUs that were downloaded prior errored out

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Did you uninstall 4.19 using add remove feature of windows? Your acct shows you contacted the server on the 13th and all the WUs that were downloaded prior errored out

Yes, Jim, \'Add or Remove Programs\' was used, before downloading V.5. I was following the recommendation to upgrade. I have had 24 messages, the last three when I tried to \'Attach to Project\' for a second time. Does this help?

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Can you post at least 20 lines from the message tab.....

Open Boinc go to the top bar, click on help and then click on, about Boinc, what does it say there.....

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Can you post at least 20 lines from the message tab.....

Open Boinc go to the top bar, click on help and then click on, about Boinc, what does it say there.....

There is mo \'About BOINC\', but the equivalent is \'About BOINC Manager\' which gives version 5.2.13, the Copyright (C) 2005, etc.

Below are all the messages - the last one at 09:42:09 was repeated when I tried to log on to a project for the second time . . .

13/01/2006 09:34:46||Starting BOINC client version 5.2.13 for windows_intelx86
13/01/2006 09:34:46||Starting BOINC client version 5.2.13 for windows_intelx86
13/01/2006 09:34:46||libcurl/7.14.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8 zlib/1.2.3
13/01/2006 09:34:46||Data directory: C:\\Program Files\\BOINC 5
13/01/2006 09:35:11||Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
13/01/2006 09:35:11||Memory: 511.48 MB physical, 1.22 GB virtual
13/01/2006 09:35:11||Disk: 232.88 GB total, 204.25 GB free
13/01/2006 09:35:13||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
13/01/2006 09:35:14||Remote control not allowed; using loopback address
13/01/2006 09:35:14||This computer is not attached to any projects.
13/01/2006 09:35:14||There are several ways to attach to a project:
13/01/2006 09:35:14||1) Run the BOINC Manager and click Projects.
13/01/2006 09:35:14||2) (Unix/Mac) Use boinc_cmd --project_attach
13/01/2006 09:35:14||3) (Unix/Mac) Run this program with the -attach_project command-line option.
13/01/2006 09:35:14||Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for more information
13/01/2006 09:35:16||Running CPU benchmarks
13/01/2006 09:36:15||Benchmark results:
13/01/2006 09:36:15|| Number of CPUs: 1
13/01/2006 09:36:15|| 995 double precision MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
13/01/2006 09:36:15|| 1938 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
13/01/2006 09:36:15||Finished CPU benchmarks
13/01/2006 09:36:16||Fetching config info from http://www.climateprediction.net/get_project_config.php
13/01/2006 09:36:16||Resuming computation and network activity
13/01/2006 09:36:16||request_reschedule_cpus: Resuming activities
13/01/2006 09:42:09||Fetching config info from http://www.climateprediction.net/get_project_config.php

There has been no addition since 09:42:09. Thanks for your interest. Alan

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Whoops you stopped a few lines short of what we needed. We see it start up without being attached to any project, then the last few lines look like the begining of an attempt at attaching. But there is no info about why it is not attaching for you.

A simple way of attaching if you have another computer or access to the old files is to copy the account*.xml files to the new BOINC directory and restarting the client.

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BOINCing since 2002/12/8

Your acct shows you are attached to CPDN and attempted to download 2 WUs and both of they errored out with file transfer errors, this is over my head so will deffer to the more knowledgeable members...

Over
Outcome Client error
Client state Downloading
Exit status -186 (0xffffff46)
Computer ID 346852
Report deadline 27 Dec 2006 23:25:55 UTC
CPU time 0
stderr out <core_client_version>5.2.13</core_client_version>
<message>WU download error: couldn\'t get input files:
<file_xfer_error>
<file_name>sulphur_hxjm_000836626.zip</file_name>
<error_code>-163</error_code>
<error_message>file was not found on server</error_message>
</file_xfer_error>

</message>

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Alan
See Carl\'s post <a href=\"http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=3866#19275\"> here.</a>

Also, your computer is just crashing the models you have been getting, so perhaps you should find out why while you\'re waiting.

I guess it would help to set :

Do work while computer is in use? YES

Currently you have set it to an idle time of 2 minutes before it tries to do something. While you check the BOINC logs, your computer is \"in use\" as you\'re using the keyboard.

That\'s why the logs probably don\'t grow after the initialisation phase.

Whoops you stopped a few lines short of what we needed. We see it start up without being attached to any project, then the last few lines look like the begining of an attempt at attaching. But there is no info about why it is not attaching for you.

A simple way of attaching if you have another computer or access to the old files is to copy the account*.xml files to the new BOINC directory and restarting the client.

Answer: I found two files, account_.xml and account_www.climateprediction.net.xml, and a folder, www.climateprediction.net containing an application file, sulphur_4.22_windows_intelx86, and three zipped folders, sulphur_data, sulphur_se, and sulphur_um,_4.22_windowsx86. I have copied these to the folder with BOINC 5 in, and restarted the program. After a fair amount of activity the program then stops, having said \'resuming activity\'.

The log, edited to get rid of repetitions is below:

14/01/2006 18:10:03||Starting BOINC client version 5.2.13 for windows_intelx86
14/01/2006 18:10:03||libcurl/7.14.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8 zlib/1.2.3
14/01/2006 18:10:03||Data directory: C:\\Program Files\\BOINC 5
14/01/2006 18:10:03||Invalid account filename: account_.xml
14/01/2006 18:10:03||Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
14/01/2006 18:10:03||Memory: 511.48 MB physical, 1.22 GB virtual
14/01/2006 18:10:03||Disk: 232.88 GB total, 204.26 GB free
14/01/2006 18:10:03|climateprediction.net|Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: ; project prefs: default
14/01/2006 18:10:03||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
14/01/2006 18:10:04||Remote control not allowed; using loopback address
14/01/2006 18:10:04|climateprediction.net|Fetching master file
14/01/2006 18:10:09|climateprediction.net|Master file download succeeded
14/01/2006 18:10:14|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
14/01/2006 18:10:14|climateprediction.net|Reason: Requested by user
14/01/2006 18:10:14|climateprediction.net|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work
14/01/2006 18:10:19|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
14/01/2006 18:10:19|climateprediction.net|General preferences have been updated
14/01/2006 18:10:19|climateprediction.net|New host venue: home
14/01/2006 18:10:19||General prefs: from climateprediction.net (last modified 2006-01-13 11:07:56)
14/01/2006 18:10:19||General prefs: using your defaults
14/01/2006 18:10:19||Suspending computation and network activity - user is active
14/01/2006 18:12:16||Resuming computation and network activity
14/01/2006 18:12:16||request_reschedule_cpus: Resuming activities
14/01/2006 18:12:17|climateprediction.net|Started download of sulphur_4.22_windows_intelx86.exe
14/01/2006 18:12:17|climateprediction.net|Started download of sulphur_data_4.22_windows_intelx86.zip
14/01/2006 18:12:48|climateprediction.net|Finished download of sulphur_4.22_windows_intelx86.exe
14/01/2006 18:12:48|climateprediction.net|Throughput 71667 bytes/sec
14/01/2006 18:12:48|climateprediction.net|Started download of sulphur_um_4.22_windows_intelx86.zip
14/01/2006 18:13:08|climateprediction.net|Finished download of sulphur_um_4.22_windows_intelx86.zip
14/01/2006 18:13:08|climateprediction.net|Throughput 60206 bytes/sec
14/01/2006 18:13:08|climateprediction.net|Started download of sulphur_se_4.22_windows_intelx86.zip
14/01/2006 18:13:31|climateprediction.net|Finished download of sulphur_se_4.22_windows_intelx86.zip
14/01/2006 18:13:31|climateprediction.net|Throughput 62243 bytes/sec
14/01/2006 18:13:31|climateprediction.net|Started download of sulphur_hxjm_000836626.zip
14/01/2006 18:13:32|climateprediction.net|Temporarily failed download of sulphur_hxjm_000836626.zip: error 404
14/01/2006 18:13:32|climateprediction.net|Giving up on download of sulphur_hxjm_000836626.zip: file was not found on server
14/01/2006 18:13:32|climateprediction.net|Checksum or signature error for sulphur_hxjm_000836626.zip
14/01/2006 18:13:33|climateprediction.net|Unrecoverable error for result sulphur_hxjm_000836626_1 (WU download error: couldn\'t get input files:<file_xfer_error> <file_name>sulphur_hxjm_000836626.zip</file_name> <error_code>-163</error_code> <error_message>file was not found on server</error_message></file_xfer_error>)
14/01/2006 18:14:36|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
14/01/2006 18:14:36|climateprediction.net|Reason: To fetch work
14/01/2006 18:14:36|climateprediction.net|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 results
14/01/2006 18:14:41||Suspending computation and network activity - user is active
14/01/2006 18:16:49||Resuming computation and network activity
14/01/2006 18:16:49||request_reschedule_cpus: Resuming activities
14/01/2006 18:16:49|climateprediction.net|Started download of sulphur_data_4.22_windows_intelx86.zip
14/01/2006 18:16:49|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
14/01/2006 18:16:51|climateprediction.net|Started download of sulphur_hxt9_000836973.zip
14/01/2006 18:16:53|climateprediction.net|Temporarily failed download of sulphur_hxt9_000836973.zip: error 404
14/01/2006 18:16:53|climateprediction.net|Giving up on download of sulphur_hxt9_000836973.zip: file was not found on server
14/01/2006 18:16:53|climateprediction.net|Checksum or signature error for sulphur_hxt9_000836973.zip
14/01/2006 18:16:54|climateprediction.net|Unrecoverable error for result sulphur_hxt9_000836973_1 (WU download error: couldn\'t get input files:<file_xfer_error> <file_name>sulphur_hxt9_000836973.zip</file_name> <error_code>-163</error_code> <error_message>file was not found on server</error_message></file_xfer_error>)
14/01/2006 18:17:30||Suspending computation and network activity - user is active
14/01/2006 18:20:28||Resuming computation and network activity
14/01/2006 18:20:28||request_reschedule_cpus: Resuming activities
14/01/2006 18:20:28|climateprediction.net|Started download of sulphur_data_4.22_windows_intelx86.zip
14/01/2006 18:20:28|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
14/01/2006 18:20:28|climateprediction.net|Reason: To fetch work
14/01/2006 18:20:28|climateprediction.net|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 results
14/01/2006 18:20:33|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
14/01/2006 18:20:33|climateprediction.net|Message from server: No work sent
14/01/2006 18:20:33|climateprediction.net|Message from server: (reached daily quota of 2 results)
14/01/2006 18:20:33|climateprediction.net|No work from project
14/01/2006 18:21:28|climateprediction.net|Finished download of sulphur_data_4.22_windows_intelx86.zip
14/01/2006 18:21:28|climateprediction.net|Throughput 113779 bytes/sec
14/01/2006 18:28:36||Suspending computation and network activity - user is active
14/01/2006 18:30:37||Resuming computation and network activity
14/01/2006 18:30:37||request_reschedule_cpus: Resuming activities
15/01/2006 00:16:44||Suspending computation and network activity - user is active
15/01/2006 00:18:46||Resuming computation and network activity
15/01/2006 00:18:46||request_reschedule_cpus: Resuming activities
15/01/2006 00:18:46|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
15/01/2006 00:18:46|climateprediction.net|Reason: To fetch work
15/01/2006 00:18:46|climateprediction.net|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work
15/01/2006 00:18:51|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
15/01/2006 00:18:53|climateprediction.net|Started download of sulphur_i0j7_000840499.zip
15/01/2006 00:18:55|climateprediction.net|Temporarily failed download of sulphur_i0j7_000840499.zip: error 404
15/01/2006 00:18:55|climateprediction.net|Giving up on download of sulphur_i0j7_000840499.zip: file was not found on server
15/01/2006 00:18:55|climateprediction.net|Checksum or signature error for sulphur_i0j7_000840499.zip
15/01/2006 00:18:56|climateprediction.net|Unrecoverable error for result sulphur_i0j7_000840499_1 (WU download error: couldn\'t get input files:<file_xfer_error> <file_name>sulphur_i0j7_000840499.zip</file_name> <error_code>-163</error_code> <error_message>file was not found on server</error_message></file_xfer_error>)
15/01/2006 00:19:56|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
15/01/2006 00:19:56|climateprediction.net|Reason: To fetch work
15/01/2006 00:19:56|climateprediction.net|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 results
15/01/2006 00:20:01|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
15/01/2006 00:20:01|climateprediction.net|Message from server: No work sent
15/01/2006 00:20:01|climateprediction.net|Message from server: (reached daily quota of 1 results)
15/01/2006 00:20:01|climateprediction.net|No work from project
15/01/2006 00:20:16||Suspending computation and network activity - user is active
15/01/2006 00:22:18||Resuming computation and network activity

Having reached this point the machine just waits.

I hope this helps in finding where I\'m going wrong!

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I guess it would help to set :

Do work while computer is in use? YES

Currently you have set it to an idle time of 2 minutes before it tries to do something. While you check the BOINC logs, your computer is \"in use\" as you\'re using the keyboard.

That\'s why the logs probably don\'t grow after the initialisation phase.

Answer: I have waited far longer than two minutes to let the computer re-act, but nothing ever happened! This preference was set so as not to slow down the machine when I was using it - whether I would notice it I\'m not sure. However, I have set my preferences as advised; if nothing else, it will stop the message lines concerning \'Stop processing - computer is active\', etc.

Thanks for your interest.

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The failed downloads are a database problem for the last few days. See this thread for more info.

The failed downloads are a database problem for the last few days. See this thread for more info.

Yippee!!! It\'s up and running again - on an application called sulphur_cycle 4.22 and it\'s done 4.11%.

Thanks, everybody, for your help.

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