If you encounter any problems caused by recent work on the server, please post here.

Most, but not all, of my recent tasks are showing credit as 'pending' - see, for example, http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/results.php?hostid=788878.

CPDN has an unusual (for BOINC) way of awarding credit: every task is updated once every 24 hours to reflect the interim trickles received.

I suggest we all just wait and see how this turns out after the credit run due tonight.

'Preview' and 'Post reply' are showing correctly as buttons, but other items ('Edit', 'Reply', 'Quote') are showing as bulleted lists.

CSS problem?

Hello Milo. When I go to my account web page and -> view my computers -> then view my tasks -> I "see" that before the recent sever outage, it showed my workunits -> as success -> now showing as -> Completed, can't validate -> for example Workunit 6702275 -> are the servers web pages still updating ?

Most, but not all, of my recent tasks are showing credit as 'pending' - see, for example, http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/results.php?hostid=788878.

CPDN has an unusual (for BOINC) way of awarding credit: every task is updated once every 24 hours to reflect the interim trickles received.

I suggest we all just wait and see how this turns out after the credit run due tonight.

ahh ... I see ok thanks Richard.

I'll be looking into all the points raised here as soon as possible, but there are still quite a few things to deal with and so they might not get done immediately.

I agree that we'll have to see how the credit runs go overnight.

Thanks Milo.

The 'Author' column on the message boards seems to be centred vertically against the post, rather than top-aligned.

Looks odd for long posts, such as crandles' post before yours in the news thread.

Tried to update my preferences, more specifically to change from Hadsm3 to Hadam3p and was met by the following answer:

Notice: Undefined index: hadsm3 in /var/www/boinc/projects/cpdnboinc/html/project/project_specific_prefs.inc  on line 393

Notice: Undefined index: hadcm3 in /var/www/boinc/projects/cpdnboinc/html/project/project_specific_prefs.inc on line 394

Notice: Undefined index: hadam3 in /var/www/boinc/projects/cpdnboinc/html/project/project_specific_prefs.inc on line 395

Notice: Undefined index: hadsm3mh in /var/www/boinc/projects/cpdnboinc/html/project/project_specific_prefs.inc on line 396

Notice: Undefined index: famous in /var/www/boinc/projects/cpdnboinc/html/project/project_specific_prefs.inc on line 398

Notice: Undefined variable: retval in /var/www/boinc/projects/cpdnboinc/html/project/project_specific_prefs.inc on line 400

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/boinc/projects/cpdnboinc/html/project/project_specific_prefs.inc:393) in /var/www/boinc/projects/cpdnboinc/html/user/prefs_edit.php on line 96

The changes did take though.

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Jord.

Rather than laboriously updating cpdn.css, might it be a good idea to apply one of the already-updated themes? CPDN Beta is nice.

[BTW most of the menu disappears when typing a post.]

Rather than laboriously updating cpdn.css, might it be a good idea to apply one of the already-updated themes? CPDN Beta is nice.

For some reason it looks horrible and would still need lots of editing.

Rather than laboriously updating cpdn.css, might it be a good idea to apply one of the already-updated themes? CPDN Beta is nice.

For some reason it looks horrible and would still need lots of editing.

Ah, too bad: I can see it's changing anyway.

One feature lost is the model name that appeared as a 'tip' when the mouse cursor was over the model link in a tasks list. I used that a lot.

[I like the addition of BOINC Manager version for each host, previously buried in the stderr field (which isn't always there). That provides a useful bit of diagnostic information.]

One feature lost is the model name that appeared as a 'tip' when the mouse cursor was over the model link in a tasks list. I used that a lot.

Toggling the column label to show names or ids appears to be a standard feature in other BOINC projects - like the top Show: "All/In progress/..." selections.

Hoping to see interim credits appearing after the overnight update!

One feature lost is the model name that appeared as a 'tip' when the mouse cursor was over the model link in a tasks list. I used that a lot.

Toggling the column label to show names or ids appears to be a standard feature in other BOINC projects - like the top Show: "All/In progress/..." selections.

I don't see any technical reason why BOINC couldn't adopt *both* techniques - sure, toggle to show a complete list of names can be useful, but a quick tooltip for checking a single name is helpful at other times.

One feature lost is the model name that appeared as a 'tip' when the mouse cursor was over the model link in a tasks list. I used that a lot.

Toggling the column label to show names or ids appears to be a standard feature in other BOINC projects

Oops. Hadn't spotted that ...

show_user.php generates the following pair of errors:

Warning: Attempt to assign property of non-object in /var/www/boinc/projects/cpdnboinc/html/user/show_user.php on line 81

Warning: Attempt to assign property of non-object in /var/www/boinc/projects/cpdnboinc/html/user/show_user.php on line 82

The current server code has added a user cache to cut down on the number of database accesses required, but the show_user.php code suggests that the data caching is failing and every subsequent attempt to access the page for the same user (e.g. my account) picks up uninitialised data from the cache and generates the error

Unable to handle request

No such user found - please check the ID and try again.

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I'm get this message when I try to post an Active link to my computer:
Your post has been flagged as spam by the Akismet anti-spam system. Please modify your text and try again.
http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1078890
also I find that the Buttons for: "Use BBCode tags to format your text" don't seem to work. I have to manualy put in the BBCode tags.
I'm using IE8 OS WXPSP3

I seem to be having an odd problem and I don’t know if it’s at my end or yours? A notification in the “Projects” tab says that I have an trickle pending. It also says “communications deferred” for 18 hours 4 minutes. I never noticed this before. I have an always on connection to the internet and “network activity always available” is clicked. Trickles usually upload to the server immediately.

Is this a problem on my computer or is it a server problem? Why are my communication with the server deferred for nearly a day? By that time I will have several trickles backed up.

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I'll be looking into all the points raised here as soon as possible, but there are still quite a few things to deal with and so they might not get done immediately.

I agree that we'll have to see how the credit runs go overnight.

It would seem the credit run didn't fix it.
I uploaded & reported last night, just before the credit run and have been and still am at Completed, can't validate. Now that model also sits at "Too many errors (may have bug) Too many total results" while all the ones that were finished before were finished correctly.

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Jord.

Is this a problem on my computer or is it a server problem? Why are my communication with the server deferred for nearly a day? By that time I will have several trickles backed up.

It's a server problem, the database has been down a couple of times. Without database, you can't trickle up. But that doesn't matter, BOINC will try and try again until it can. Even if it has to send multiple trickles in one burst, that's fine.

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Jord.