How do I get SETI@Home to give my computer an ID number?

Hi Gary,

Sorry it took so long to get back to you, but now I'm hear.

You said:

What do you mean by "erasing"?  I hope it means that you just uninstalled BOINC without physically deleting or erasing all the files and folders that would still be left after an uninstall?  If you deleted any files with Seti account information, that could be your problem.

I don't think I did, it was back in February when this all began, and I've been having trouble with SETI since.

Since BOINC was working for two out of three projects, it's unlikely that re-installing will be beneficial.

It may be too late now.  I've already deleted and reinstalled BOINC, a couple of times.

If you look through the event log you posted, you can see both Milkyway and Einstein responding to requests from your BOINC client.  With Seti, there doesn't seem to be any response.  At the times shown in the event log, I believe Seti may have been down so that might account for the 'no reply'.  Have you ever checked by browsing the website and looking at the status page to make sure the Seti project is up when your client tries to make contact and fails?

As of today, of the 95 web servers just for SETI, 5 are disabled and 16 are not running.  My SETI account is still deferring another 24 hrs.

How have you created the accounts on the various projects?  Do you use some sort of account manager by any chance?

Yes, I have used both BOINC Manager and gridrepublic.org at one time or another, as well as the websites for each of SETI, Einstein, and Milkyway for my accounts.  I've since deleted gridrepublic.org after first disconnecting it from my three accounts, and now I only use the three websites for account preferences. I do not remember if I made the accounts from the websites or BOINC Manager.

The startup messages say "Running under account georg".  Your name here seems to be Geo1 and if I look at your profile page here and click on the Seti link shown there, I end up over at Seti at an account named 'George' which does have the two computers I mentioned previously.  So is that your problem?

When I click on the SETI link in my Einstein account it does refer me to the 'George' account in SETI.  While it has two computers listed, one of them is not Windows 10, it is still Windows 7 which was the original computer I started with.  I now have upgraded the same computer to Windows 10.  And no, I do not think that is my problem.

There are three accounts at seti called 'georg'.  Do any of those belong to you?

Yes, they all belong to me.  When I set up my computer to Windows 10 , I'm listed as 'georg', not 'george', intentionally.  I'm not sure why SETI servers do that, but they are mine.

Can you actually login to the account 'George'?  What happens if you look at your profile page here at Einstein and click on the Seti link?  When you get to Seti, can you login as George?

Yes, when I login into Einstein and click on the SETI link it takes me to my SETI account named George. I do not need to log in anymore, my account is open at SETI.

When I login directly in to SETI, my computer asks me for my email address and password.  From there I have no where to go to change my 'name' for the account.  I am using 'george.generke.007@outlook.com' as my email address to log into SETI to get to the account named 'George'.  I also use the same email email address and password to log into Einstein.  I have set up my Einstein account with the name 'Geo1' intentionally.  I now have three other accounts which I log into SETI with different email addresses and passwords.  They all have not connected at all with the SETI severs, so my account pages shows '0' credits and '0' average.

Incidentally, when I logged into my SETI account with the email address above, and then I log into SETI with each of the other three accounts, they all say I'm already logged in.  I just thought it was an ID from my computer that identified me as already logged in.  I may be wrong.

If you can login as 'George' why don't you retry exactly what Holmis suggested but this time use the 'George' user details and password?  I'm guessing you didn't use those last time.

Holmis said:

What happens when you open Boinc Manager and click on the menu item "Tools - Add project" and then choose Seti@home from the list of projects and then choose "Yes, existing user" and use your old Seti account info?

That was exactly what I did.  I did what Holmis said.  I logged into SETI as I stated above.

I was interested in the lines:-

     10/07/18 03:59:05 PM | | Read account data file
     10/07/18 03:59:05 PM | | Already attached to SETI@home
     10/07/18 03:59:05 PM | | Setting up GUI RPC socket
     10/07/18 03:59:05 PM | | Checking presence of 163 project files
     10/07/18 03:59:06 PM | SETI@home | Fetching scheduler list

It would appear that all these refer to Seti and if so, and because there are no errors mentioned, the account data file exists and there are 163 project files in the project directory.  You might like to check both of those things.  The account file should be named "account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml" or something like that. and should be in the BOINC Data directory.  There should also be a subdirectory called projects which contains three further directories - one for each of your projects.  I'm just seeking confirmation that the Seti project directory and the files in it are intact.

Yes, the second folder 'projects' is present with each of my three projects, but there are no contents for 'setiathome.berkeley.edu', it is empty.

If none of the above lead to a successful outcome, it's time to get your hands dirty.  Go to your BOINC data directory and find the state file (called client_state.xml).  You don't need to stop BOINC you just need to make a copy of that file and paste it somewhere outside the BOINC tree - you could put it on the desktop if you like.  You then need to browse that file with a plain text editor to see what is inside it.  Windows notepad or equivalent would be fine.  You will be looking for the Seti project.  I can't show you an example but I can for the Einstein project (which you will have in your file also.  Here is what you are searching for - but for Seti and NOT Einstein.

<project>
     <master_url>http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/</master_url>       <-- Make sure this refers to Seti!!
     <project_name>Einstein@Home</project_name>                  <-- ditto!!
     ....
     <user_name>Gary Roberts</user_name>
     ....
     <host_venue>home</host_venue>
     ....
     ....
     <rpc_seqno>nnnnn</rpc_seqno>
     <userid>nnnnn</userid>
     <teamid>nnnnn</teamid>
     <hostid>nnnnn</hostid>
      ....

There should be 3 <project> sections in the state file.  Once you find the one belonging to Seti and without posting any sensitive information, what are the values for the same sort of parameters that I've posted above?  I'm particularly interested in the <user_name>, the <userid> and the <hostid> (if any).

I've copied the section where it starts with <<<master_url>http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/</master_url>>> through to where it ends with <<<disk_share>1417339207.680000</disk_share>>>.  This is the only thing I found in the file under SETI.

<project>
    <master_url>http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/</master_url>
    <project_name>SETI@home</project_name>
    <symstore></symstore>
    <user_name></user_name>                                      <- Note: no name
    <team_name></team_name>
    <host_venue></host_venue>
    <email_hash></email_hash>
    <cross_project_id></cross_project_id>
    <external_cpid></external_cpid>
    <cpid_time>0.000000</cpid_time>
    <user_total_credit>0.000000</user_total_credit>
    <user_expavg_credit>0.000000</user_expavg_credit>
    <user_create_time>0.000000</user_create_time>
    <rpc_seqno>0</rpc_seqno>
    <userid>0</userid>                                                   <-Note: no user ID
    <teamid>0</teamid>                                                 <-Note: no team ID
    <hostid>0</hostid>                                                   <-Note: no host ID
    <host_total_credit>0.000000</host_total_credit>
    <host_expavg_credit>0.000000</host_expavg_credit>
    <host_create_time>0.000000</host_create_time>
    <nrpc_failures>2</nrpc_failures>
    <master_fetch_failures>7</master_fetch_failures>
    <min_rpc_time>1539871147.975029</min_rpc_time>
    <next_rpc_time>0.000000</next_rpc_time>
    <rec>0.000000</rec>
    <rec_time>1539825233.006090</rec_time>
    <resource_share>100.000000</resource_share>
    <desired_disk_usage>0.000000</desired_disk_usage>
    <duration_correction_factor>1.000000</duration_correction_factor>
    <sched_rpc_pending>0</sched_rpc_pending>
    <send_time_stats_log>0</send_time_stats_log>
    <send_job_log>0</send_job_log>
    <njobs_success>0</njobs_success>
    <njobs_error>0</njobs_error>
    <elapsed_time>0.000000</elapsed_time>
    <last_rpc_time>0.000000</last_rpc_time>
    <master_url_fetch_pending/>
    <rsc_backoff_time>
        <name>CPU</name>
        <value>0.000000</value>
    </rsc_backoff_time>
    <rsc_backoff_interval>
        <name>CPU</name>
        <value>0.000000</value>
    </rsc_backoff_interval>
    <rsc_backoff_time>
        <name>NVIDIA</name>
        <value>0.000000</value>
    </rsc_backoff_time>
    <rsc_backoff_interval>
        <name>NVIDIA</name>
        <value>0.000000</value>
    </rsc_backoff_interval>
    <cpu_ec>0.000000</cpu_ec>
    <cpu_time>0.000000</cpu_time>
    <gpu_ec>0.000000</gpu_ec>
    <gpu_time>0.000000</gpu_time>
    <disk_usage>0.000000</disk_usage>
    <disk_share>1417339207.680000</disk_share>
</project>

What can I do with the empty file 'setiathome.berkeley.edu' and the file 'client_state.xml'?

George

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