This machine had been running just fine for several years, when suddenly....

Your computer (host # 844631) described below appears to have a misconfigured BOINC
installation and is crashing models. Would you please have a look at it?

http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=844631


I can't see what the problem is, if there is any problem - the client has one CP task in the backlog and it also seems to be getting tasks from time to time...

It looks like that system has a permissions problem which is preventing it from writing anything to the BOINC projects directory Stanislav.

Take famous_v35n_1799_200_006738515_0 as an example. It has exit status = 4 (The system cannot open the file.) and if you click on the '+' by stderr you'll see the following messages:

error: cannot create C:/Program Files/BOINC/data/projects/climateprediction.net/famous_se_6.11_windows_intelx86.dll
checkdir error: cannot create C:/Program Files/BOINC/data/projects/climateprediction.net/gfx
unable to process gfx/.

That P4 seems to be having the same problem in all of your other projects. For example, this Einstein task failed with the error:

[CRITICAL]: Failed to open temp gctFStat file "../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/h1_1105.10_S5R4__57_S5GC1a_1_0.tmp" for writing: 13: Permission denied

I'd advise upgrading from BOINC 6.10.18 to the latest recommended version 6.10.58. Installing the newer version should fix the permissions problem (as would reinstalling your current version, but the newer versions fixes a number of problems).

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

Hi... today i recive an email that indicates my computer is misconfigured

how can i fix it?

this is the email:
climateprediction.net notification:

Dear Mario
Your computer (host # 1087607) described below appears to have a misconfigured BOINC
installation and is crashing models. Would you please have a look at it?

If you need assistance, please post in this thread on our BOINC forums and we will suggest a way to fix the problem. You may post in any language:

http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=6880

Please include this link so that we may more easily find your computer:

http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1087607

When you have applied the fix please post to say so. Until the problem is fixed no more work will be sent to your computer.

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Hi... today i recive an email that indicates my computer is misconfigured

how can i fix it?

http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1087607

Hi Mario,

All of your tasks are failing with exit status -85 and the message

CreateProcess() failed - Access is denied. (0x5)

My guess is that your anti-virus program has quarantined the CPDN applications. If that's the case you'll need to override the quarantines and possibly restore the affected files.

If possible you should also set up a scan exclusion for your BOINC data directory (that'll prevent any BOINC project application from being quarantined in future). If that's not possible you'll need set all of the CPDN applications as trusted and watch out for AV quarantining of future application versions.

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

Stanislav and Mario

When you have done what Thyme Lawn suggested, please post again to tell us. We can then ask our programmer, Milo, to reactivate your computers' daily download quota.

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Cpdn news

I received an email today about my climateprediction.net results being broken. Seems like I got these errors after this last hardware upgrade. Exit status 22 (0x16)

I just looked at the other project I'm running too and I got several errors there too so I will check and see what's causing this.

I use Comodo Internet Security and I had problems with it putting everything in the sandbox but that function is turned off now.

http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1040917

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Stanislav and Mario

When you have done what Thyme Lawn suggested, please post again to tell us. We can then ask our programmer, Milo, to reactivate your computers' daily download quota.

Version 6.10.58 installed. Let's see if it helps.

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I use Comodo Internet Security and I had problems with it putting everything in the sandbox but that function is turned off now.

http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1040917

Your current tasks seem to be progressing well tekburn. I'll ask Milo to re-enable work fetch for your computer.

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

Version 6.10.58 installed. Let's see if it helps.

I'll also ask Milo to re-enable Stanislav's computer.

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

Both re-enabled, thanks.

Hi,

I'm french and i've tried to read almost everything in this forum. Congratulations for your french speaking ! ;-)
I receeved the now famous email so I decided to solve the problem when I had time. This is the day to start. Here is the link for my computer :

[url]http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1090519

As said in this link : [/url]http://boincfaq.mundayweb.com/index.php?language=1&view=448 , I've excluded both the BOINC and BOINC Data directories from actively being scanned by my anti virus and anti spyware product (not AVG neither Kaspersky but Avast! Free solution), and I've put boinc.exe and boincmgr.exe in the trusted zone of my firewall (Comodo).
I've done this half an hour ago...

I'm running BOINC v. 6.10.58

I've noticed that people running a 64-bits based version of Linux have troubles. As i'm using a 64 bits version of Windoze, I'm wondering if there is a link...

ID: 1090519
Created: 2 Aug 2010 14:10:13 UTC
Venue: home
Total credit: 0
Average credit: 0
Average update time: 9 Nov 2010 9:04:41 UTC
IP address: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (same the last 197 times)
Domain name: Q6600-7
Local Time = UTC +1 hours
Number of CPUs: 4
CPU: GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11]
FP ops/sec: 2285029435.52675
Int ops/sec: 4651462050.12163
memory bandwidth: 1000000000
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
Memory: 2046.49 MB
Cache: 4096 KB
Swap Space: 3446.49 MB
Total Disk Space: 10 GB
Free Disk Space: 2.68 GB
Avg network bandwidth (upstream): 17575.100741 bytes/sec
Avg network bandwidth (downstream): 163084.287501 bytes/sec
Average turnaround: 91.31 days
Number of RPCs: 291
Last RPC: 9 Nov 2010 0:14:20 UTC
% of time client on: 98.4278 %
% of time host connected: 99.9879 %
% of time user active: 99.9914 %
# of results today: 1

Thanks for your work, sincerely

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I'm trying to use vista parental controls. When it has notified me I'm blocking the climate modules I've added exceptions. So far I've added:
famous_6.11
hadam3p_eu_6.05
hadam3p_saf_6.05
hadcm3trans_6.04
hadsm3_6.07

I just got an email saying my computer has "a misconfigured BOINC
installation and is crashing models."

http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1047738

thanks,
Olive

I'm trying to use vista parental controls. When it has notified me I'm blocking the climate modules I've added exceptions. So far I've added:
famous_6.11
hadam3p_eu_6.05
hadam3p_saf_6.05
hadcm3trans_6.04
hadsm3_6.07

I've re-enabled your system, so we can see if that works.

Milo - apologies for contacting you through a different thread but unsure how they work?

Briefly I just wanted to know if it is worth my transferring my home PC to your new regional experiment instead of the CP.net I've had running for a long time now.

http://climateprediction.net/content/regional-model

Trouble is I don't leave the PC running when not using it so the benefits of a new download might not be worht it?

Regards

Phil

Briefly I just wanted to know if it is worth my transferring my home PC to your new regional experiment instead of the CP.net I've had running for a long time now.

Please keep running what you're currently running - it's all useful!

Hi Manxie

No, it isn't worth transferring. If you rejoin CPDN via the weatherathome method you will only be able to download the regional models, not the other model types. And at the moment weatherathome is only for Windows, not Linux or Mac.

If you only want to run regional models, go to your CPDN account which is listed in the blue menu on the left. Click on the climateprediction.net preferences then edit your preferences to select which model types you want/don't want.

You can see the model types currently available by clicking on the Server Status link in the blue menu.

Later I am going to move these posts about weatherathome to a more suitable place on the forum. I hope this is OK. I will leave here a link to the new place.

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Cpdn news

I never knew it, but every task for about the last year or so has resulted in an error. I got the e-mail this morning. This is my computer:

http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=442847

The task history doesn't seem to go back far enough to see more than one successfully completed entry. It also shows some tasks in progress, but my BOINC client has no ongoing tasks.

Just a few minutes ago I upgraded to the latest version of BOINC.

About 9 months ago I replaced capacitors on my motherboard because they were oozing electrolytic fluid. I also removed a module of RAM because it may have been faulty, so the computer has 512MB less.

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Some time ago, the project started using SSE2 compiler options in the models.
Those computers without it will crash all current models immediately.

Please check to see if your AMD Athlon XP 2400+ has this. If not, then that computer should be retired from crunching climate models.

There are 2 sticky posts at the top of the Number Crunching section about this, one for the hadam3 models, and one for hadcm3.

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Backups: Here

Hi,

I have a Mac under Lion and your email said it's misconfigured.
What I have to check?
I update the Boinc version to 6.12.35 ( it was .33).
Is that enought?

Tank you
Alain

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Please read this sticky post at the top of the Macintosh section of this board. If this doesn't help, please post again.
Also, let us know when you think that you've solved the problem, so that your computer can be allowed to get work again.

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Backups: Here

Hi,

I got an email saying my host had been removed. The host URL is:

http://climateapps2.oerc.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=615938

I followed the advice elsewhere and deleted climate prediction.net from the host, then reattached to the project. Can you try turning the host back on so we can see if that worked?

Thanks,
Deborah

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