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Christian Hoklas
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I am getting constant errors

4 Sep 2006 18:20:16 UTC
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    I am getting constant errors after deleting the app_info.xml. Have a look here for example:

    http://einsteinathome.org/task/41982862

    The einstein app does not seem to be marked as executable, although chmod +x does not seem to help.

    Where could the problem be? Thanks for any help!

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    RE: Where could the problem

    4 Sep 2006 18:45:58 UTC
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      Where could the problem be? Thanks for any help!


      Honestly I don't know. Who (i.e. which user) owns the projects/einstein folder? The same that is running BOINC?
      Strange. Try to reset the project. If nothing else helps, well, then put back the app_info.xml.

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      RE: Try to reset the

      4 Sep 2006 21:03:50 UTC
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        Try to reset the project.

        Resetting the project solved the problem and einstein is running smooth again. Sorry for the "smashed" WUs. I was not able to find any cause of the malfunction. It is always worrying if problems can be solved, but the causes remain in the dark.

        Thanks for your immidiate response, anyway.

        Christian

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        RE: RE: Try to reset the

        8 Sep 2006 17:28:03 UTC
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          Try to reset the project.

          Resetting the project solved the problem and einstein is running smooth again. Sorry for the "smashed" WUs. I was not able to find any cause of the malfunction. It is always worrying if problems can be solved, but the causes remain in the dark.

          Thanks for your immidiate response, anyway.

          Christian


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          RE: Try to reset the

          20 Sep 2006 7:50:41 UTC
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            Try to reset the project. If nothing else helps, well, then put back the app_info.xml.


            I had the same problem ‘de-anonymizing’ a couple of my G4s (OS 10.3.9); one of them (running the old BOINC Menubar, which doesn’t have a Reset button) trashed a few WUs before I got it working again. The other (running BOINC v5.4.9) was able to reload its lost work after resetting. I set a third to No New Tasks before messing with it; it should be through its queue by tomorrow, so I’ll see if things go any smoother without any ‘live’ WUs in the project folder.

            On another topic, my G4/733 recently got a validate error on WU Nº13369861. Could it have something to do with my having the third result to be sent out, while one of the original two, which took a long time, was returned before mine?

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            RE: On another topic, my

            20 Sep 2006 8:06:06 UTC
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              On another topic, my G4/733 recently got a validate error on WU Nº13369861. Could it have something to do with my having the third result to be sent out, while one of the original two, which took a long time, was returned before mine?


              Nope. A "validate error" means that the result sent back doesn't fit the minimum requirements for validation, i.e. it can't be compared to another result, e.g. because it doesn't uncompress properly, contains something else than numbers etc. In most cases this points either to a communication problem during uploading or a hardware issue on the host.

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              RE: A "validate error"

              21 Sep 2006 22:46:23 UTC
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                A "validate error" means that the result sent back doesn't fit the minimum requirements for validation, i.e. it can't be compared to another result, e.g. because it doesn't uncompress properly, contains something else than numbers etc. In most cases this points either to a communication problem during uploading or a hardware issue on the host.


                Thanks for the explanation. I very much doubt it’s the latter, because the system has an almost unblemished record otherwise (both here and on SETI@home & S@h Beta), and has submitted several valid results since the error occurred (without my changing anything in the slightest).

                Back to the app_info removal issue … the G4/400 system that I’d allowed to drain its queue before I removed the file threw an error immediately on starting its first WU, just like the others:

                Wed Sep 20 10:40:21 2006|Einstein@Home|Sending scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
                Wed Sep 20 10:40:21 2006|Einstein@Home|Reason: To fetch work
                Wed Sep 20 10:40:21 2006|Einstein@Home|Requesting 86400 seconds of new work
                Wed Sep 20 10:40:31 2006|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request succeeded
                Wed Sep 20 10:40:33 2006|Einstein@Home|Started download of file grid_0300_h_T19_S5R1.dat
                Wed Sep 20 10:40:35 2006|Einstein@Home|Finished download of file grid_0300_h_T19_S5R1.dat
                Wed Sep 20 10:40:35 2006|Einstein@Home|Throughput 115826 bytes/sec
                Wed Sep 20 10:40:36 2006||Rescheduling CPU: files downloaded
                Wed Sep 20 10:40:36 2006||Rescheduling CPU: files downloaded
                Wed Sep 20 10:40:36 2006||Rescheduling CPU: files downloaded
                Wed Sep 20 10:40:36 2006||Rescheduling CPU: files downloaded
                Wed Sep 20 10:40:36 2006|SETI@home|Pausing task 10jn02aa.10782.14705.1022148.3.3_4 (left in memory)
                Wed Sep 20 10:40:36 2006|Einstein@Home|Main program einstein_S5R1_4.26_powerpc-apple-darwin is not executable
                Wed Sep 20 10:40:36 2006|Einstein@Home|Unrecoverable error for result h1_0298.5_S5R1__16266_S5R1a_0 (Couldn't start or resume: -123)
                Wed Sep 20 10:40:36 2006|Einstein@Home|Deferring scheduler requests for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
                Wed Sep 20 10:40:36 2006||Rescheduling CPU: start failed
                Wed Sep 20 10:40:36 2006|Einstein@Home|Unexpected state 7 for task h1_0298.5_S5R1__16266_S5R1a_0
                Wed Sep 20 10:40:37 2006|Einstein@Home|Computation for task h1_0298.5_S5R1__16266_S5R1a_0 finished

                So I reset the project without letting it report:

                Wed Sep 20 10:43:45 2006|Einstein@Home|Resetting project
                Wed Sep 20 10:43:45 2006||Rescheduling CPU: exit_tasks
                Wed Sep 20 10:43:46 2006|SETI@home|Resuming task 10jn02aa.10782.14705.1022148.3.3_4 using setiathome_enhanced version 517
                Wed Sep 20 10:43:48 2006||gethostbyname failed
                Wed Sep 20 10:43:48 2006|Einstein@Home|Sending scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
                Wed Sep 20 10:43:48 2006|Einstein@Home|Reason: To fetch work
                Wed Sep 20 10:43:48 2006|Einstein@Home|Requesting 86400 seconds of new work
                Wed Sep 20 10:43:53 2006|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request succeeded
                Wed Sep 20 10:43:53 2006|Einstein@Home|Message from server: Resent lost result h1_0298.5_S5R1__16266_S5R1a_0
                Wed Sep 20 10:43:53 2006|Einstein@Home|Message from server: Resent lost result h1_0298.5_S5R1__16265_S5R1a_0
                Wed Sep 20 10:43:53 2006|Einstein@Home|Message from server: Resent lost result h1_0298.5_S5R1__16264_S5R1a_0
                Wed Sep 20 10:43:53 2006|Einstein@Home|Message from server: Resent lost result h1_0298.5_S5R1__16263_S5R1a_0
                Wed Sep 20 10:43:55 2006|Einstein@Home|Started download of file einstein_S5R1_4.26_powerpc-apple-darwin
                Wed Sep 20 10:43:55 2006|Einstein@Home|Started download of file grid_0300_h_T19_S5R1.dat
                Wed Sep 20 10:43:58 2006|Einstein@Home|Finished download of file grid_0300_h_T19_S5R1.dat
                Wed Sep 20 10:43:58 2006|Einstein@Home|Throughput 64382 bytes/sec
                Wed Sep 20 10:44:06 2006|Einstein@Home|Finished download of file einstein_S5R1_4.26_powerpc-apple-darwin
                Wed Sep 20 10:44:06 2006|Einstein@Home|Throughput 193967 bytes/sec
                Wed Sep 20 10:44:07 2006||Rescheduling CPU: files downloaded
                Wed Sep 20 10:44:07 2006||Rescheduling CPU: files downloaded
                Wed Sep 20 10:44:07 2006||Rescheduling CPU: files downloaded
                Wed Sep 20 10:44:07 2006||Rescheduling CPU: files downloaded
                Wed Sep 20 10:44:07 2006|SETI@home|Pausing task 10jn02aa.10782.14705.1022148.3.3_4 (left in memory)
                Wed Sep 20 10:44:07 2006|Einstein@Home|Starting task h1_0298.5_S5R1__16266_S5R1a_0 using einstein_S5R1 version 426

                Two of the results it’s sent in since then have validated successfully (with a third pending), and none are missing or showing errors, so it seems fine now.

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                Gents, I installed the App

                24 Sep 2006 19:04:09 UTC
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                  Gents,

                  I installed the App for the G4 and instead of needing around 36000 secs for a WU it went down to 21600. Can this be right?

                  I have a Mac Mini 1,42Mhz 512 ram Mac Os X 10.4.7

                  Greetz from Belgium

                  T

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                  66 % faster it's very good i

                  26 Sep 2006 9:00:24 UTC
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                    66 % faster it's very good i think.

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                    If this app no longer needs

                    2 Nov 2006 3:12:59 UTC
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                      If this app no longer needs beta testing, shouldn't it be removed from the Beta test page? I just downloaded the zip file only to find einstein_S5R1_4.26_powerpc-apple-darwin already in my Einstein folder. Sorry I didn't read every post here (such as the announcement), I was anxious to get the new app and didn't realize I as already using PPC 4.26

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