All three results invalid?

David Hammer
David Hammer
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RE: I may not be

Message 31465 in response to message 31462

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I may not be "official", but I did get an answer from Bruce Allen:

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Thanks a lot for pointing this out. It appears that for about 8 hours our validator was marking all results as 'validate error'. I don't know why this happened: restarting the validator seems to have fixed this.

I'm going to write a script to grant credit to all the results which got marked as validate errors in this time interval.

Cheers,
Bruce

You can make that official. I just spoke with Bruce about the validator problem and he is going to try to grant credit to the "invalid" results later today if possible. We still do not understand what went wrong with the validator.

Thanks to all for reporting this problem.

Barrie
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RE: RE: 2:56 PM UTC on

Message 31466 in response to message 31461

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2:56 PM UTC on Thursday, 11 May 2006
Albert validator is now "running"
But we should still wait until someone "official" gives a statement.

But don't hold your breath. Unless you are David Blaine, and then some.

Now I feel bad about saying this.

Dead men don't get the baby washed. HTH

Mac-Nic
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RE: I may not be

Message 31467 in response to message 31462

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I may not be "official", but I did get an answer from Bruce Allen:

Quote:

Thanks a lot for pointing this out. It appears that for about 8 hours our validator was marking all results as 'validate error'. I don't know why this happened: restarting the validator seems to have fixed this.

I'm going to write a script to grant credit to all the results which got marked as validate errors in this time interval.

Cheers,
Bruce

Thanks for posting this good news.
[edit]also a big thank you to David for the official update[/edit]
Regards

"The FUTURE is only a PARTICLE away from the PRESENT and the PAST."

Erik
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RE: I may not be

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I may not be "official"

You're appreciated on this side of the monitor. Thanks for the past help and admolishments when I was wrong. :-)

Ananas
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Just for the record : r1_0267

Just for the record : r1_0267 has a bunch of "no consensus yet" problems too

Better than just granting the credits would probably be to reset the state so it will run through the validator a second time (?)

roadrunner_gs
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RE: Just for the record :

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Just for the record : r1_0267 has a bunch of "no consensus yet" problems too

Better than just granting the credits would probably be to reset the state so it will run through the validator a second time (?)

Yes i would sign that too.
All WUs marked as invalid should be sent through the validator a second time.
My RAC was cut by 50 (but i know persons that lost >200) and my pendings where cut by 500.

David Hammer
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RE: RE: Just for the

Message 31471 in response to message 31470

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Just for the record : r1_0267 has a bunch of "no consensus yet" problems too

Better than just granting the credits would probably be to reset the state so it will run through the validator a second time (?)

Yes i would sign that too.
All WUs marked as invalid should be sent through the validator a second time.
My RAC was cut by 50 (but i know persons that lost >200) and my pendings where cut by 500.

The problem is that the results have already been deleted.

Beyond
Beyond
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> You can make that official.


> You can make that official. I just spoke with Bruce
> about the validator problem and he is going to try
> to grant credit to the "invalid" results later today
> if possible. We still do not understand what went
> wrong with the validator.

Very nice, thanks!

As an aside, just went through my "results" and
found 75 WUs afflicted with this syndrome.

Thanks Again,
Beyond

Dave Burbank
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Thanks David and Bruce for

Thanks David and Bruce for fixing the validation problem,
and for making an attempt to grant the lost credit.

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard Feynman

Odysseus
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In case anyone hasn't looked

In case anyone hasn't looked there, there's an announcement on the homepage about the validator problem, including a statement that lost credit will be manually restored once canonical results are available for each WU.

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