I was about 30% through processing a workunit.

My computer froze, so I had to power it off to reboot it. Upon reloading, my workunits (both SETI and CP) were all lost, and it just reloaded a new workunit and started processing from 0%.

Anyone know why this is? I am running Windows XP with 1GB of RAM and an AMD XP2800+ CPU.

Here are my messages:

--- - 2004-09-17 10:31:32 - Starting BOINC client version 4.05 for windows_intelx86
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-17 10:31:32 - Project prefs: using your defaults
SETI@home - 2004-09-17 10:31:32 - Project prefs: using your defaults
--- - 2004-09-17 10:31:32 - Missing open tag in state file.
--- - 2004-09-17 10:31:32 - State file has different major version (0.00); resetting projects
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-17 10:31:32 - Resetting project
SETI@home - 2004-09-17 10:31:32 - Resetting project
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-17 10:31:32 - Host ID not assigned yet
SETI@home - 2004-09-17 10:31:32 - Host ID not assigned yet
--- - 2004-09-17 10:31:32 - General prefs: from climateprediction.net (last modified 2004-09-13 11:05:30)
--- - 2004-09-17 10:31:32 - General prefs: using your defaults
--- - 2004-09-17 10:31:33 - Running CPU benchmarks
--- - 2004-09-17 10:31:33 - Suspending computation and network activity - running CPU benchmarks
--- - 2004-09-17 10:32:35 - Benchmark results:
--- - 2004-09-17 10:32:35 - Number of CPUs: 1
--- - 2004-09-17 10:32:35 - 2544 double precision MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
--- - 2004-09-17 10:32:35 - 4673 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
--- - 2004-09-17 10:32:35 - Finished CPU benchmarks
--- - 2004-09-17 10:32:36 - Resuming computation and network activity
--- - 2004-09-17 10:32:36 - Insufficient work; requesting more
--- - 2004-09-17 10:32:42 - Insufficient work; requesting more
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-17 10:32:42 - Requesting 86400 seconds of work
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-17 10:32:42 - Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-17 10:32:45 - Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
--- - 2004-09-17 10:32:45 - General prefs: from climateprediction.net (last modified 2004-09-13 11:05:30)
--- - 2004-09-17 10:32:45 - General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-17 10:32:45 - Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
SETI@home - 2004-09-17 10:32:45 - Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-17 10:32:46 - File projects\\climateprediction.net\\hadsm3_4.03_windows_intelx86.exe exists already, skipping download
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-17 10:32:46 - File projects\\climateprediction.net\\hadsm3data_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip exists already, skipping download
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-17 10:32:46 - File projects\\climateprediction.net\\hadsm3um_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip exists already, skipping download
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-17 10:32:46 - File projects\\climateprediction.net\\hadsm3se_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip exists already, skipping download
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-17 10:32:46 - Started download of 2n52_100144549.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-17 10:32:48 - Finished download of 2n52_100144549.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-17 10:32:48 - Throughput 5037 bytes/sec
climateprediction.net - 2004-09-17 10:32:48 - Starting result 2n52_100144549_0 using hadsm3 version 4.03
SETI@home - 2004-09-17 10:33:16 - Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded

This is the line that's caused the problem:

--- - 2004-09-17 10:31:32 - State file has different major version (0.00); resetting projects

This is caused by a problem with the client_state.xml file.

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&gt; This is the line that's caused the problem:
&gt;
&gt; --- - 2004-09-17 10:31:32 - State file has different major version (0.00);
&gt; resetting projects
&gt;
&gt; This is caused by a problem with the client_state.xml file.
&gt;
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Hello, same problem. Is there a way around it so that you can resume where it left off, or is it just gone.

JJ

I'm afraid that one's gone :(

Obviusly no immediate consolation to either of you, but I've had a fix for the problem accepted and it'll be included in BOINC 4.10 :)

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In the main BOINC directory there should be a file called client_state_prev.xml, that should be a backup of the client_state.xml. Rename to client_state.xml and you should be abel to resume lost work if the workunits are still on disk. The downside it that this action will cause the new workunits to be lost instead.

&gt; In the main BOINC directory there should be a file called
&gt; client_state_prev.xml, that should be a backup of the client_state.xml. Rename
&gt; to client_state.xml and you should be abel to resume lost work if the
&gt; workunits are still on disk. The downside it that this action will cause the
&gt; new workunits to be lost instead.

That might not be of much use as it gets overwritten every time client_state.xml is updated. BOINC 4.10 will automatically revert using to client_state_prev.xml if client_state.xml is empty or corrupt.

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