# Stop BOINC completely and confirm with task manager that nothing is running
# Open client_state.xml with notepad and edit so that both debts are 0.000000
# Save your changes and exit notepad (don't use save as...)
# Start BOINC
Except for the last step as I rebooted the machine.
Now the values are:
Einstein
0.156250
Seti
-0.156250
I'm guessing this is more what we are looking for?
Don't get me worried, I used the trick of resetting all debts to zero, too. Hope nothing will crash (couldn't see yet because my box is far from idle atm and doesn't get much crunching done)... but at least I used a good text editor and didn't have word wrap or sth on.
Sean, good luck with your modifications, I hope it works out okay this time. btw I'd like 40 degrees, too, it's around 10 and rainy here which is not really nice. Well, my computers probably like it cool ;-)
Thank you Annika, I'm sure it will work out. Right now I am crunching Einstein units so things are better than they were. :-)
Oh and I'd prefer 10 degrees and rain any day over 40, and we sure do need rain here!
Good. I deliberately put 0.000000 in the instructions because I knew that BOINC will write out 6 decimal digits every time it updates that value. You would think it would be happy with a plain 0 but I've actually never been game to test that even though I've done this exact same edit many times before. I've always used 0.00000 to be safe. I don't know that this was the problem but I'm not suggesting we try it again to find out :).
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Except for the last step as I rebooted the machine.
Same difference!! No problem.
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Now the values are:
Einstein
0.156250
Seti
-0.156250
I'm guessing this is more what we are looking for?
Great!! This is exactly what you should be seeing.
The only problem left is that you now have two machine IDs on the EAH project. I'm guessing that the one in your state file at the moment will be recorded as 783254. You will find it several lines above the LTD value you have been editing. The newer one that you also have acquired is 840813 but I don't believe that this second one will show up in your state file.
Please let me know which one is currently there and I'll tell you how to merge them.
Yeah I've noticed I now have two entries on the "your computers" page. If you are able to fix this so my original entry is left and the results on the second are transferred that would be great.
But I must stress, I did not change anything other than the LTD for Einstein and Seti using notepad, it's not like I was using vi on my FreeBSD box and deleted half the file. ;-)
Appreciate your help.
Sean
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I've looked up your computers both on Seti and on EAH. Seti shows you as having 1 computer and your results list there shows no client errors (yet). EAH now shows you as having two (identical) computers so when you made the change to the LTD value you have obviously corrupted something else in the state file so that EAH has given your machine a new ID. We can fix the double ID problem later on.
OK, I was hoping it wouldn't be that one. Doesn't matter all that much. After the merge all your results and credit history will be back under one hostid anyway.
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If you could step me through what to do I'll do it in the morning, it's getting a bit late. ;-)
Yeah, I know :). I'm in Brisbane but I'm guessing you are south of the border and on daylight saving time so it is getting a little late for you. Bummer, just saw Lleyton lose his match in the Open.
Anyway, here are your instructions for the morning:-
*Go to "Your Computers" page and click on your old computer ID - 783254
*At the bottom of the page that comes up you will see the "Merge ..." link
*Click the link and follow the instructions
*You should be offered the option of merging 783254 with 840813. Accept this option.
You should be done. At the moment, before merging, 840813 has just 5 results in its list whilst 783254 has 221 which includes some new work and all your old results that haven't yet been deleted from the online database. Some of your old ones may disappear overnight but that is just normal behaviour. When you do the merge, whatever is left will be merged into the list for 840813 - at the moment 226 results in total.
The server will notice that you have new work under both 783254 and 840813 so when the merge occurs it will resend any lost or missing work and you should see a message to this effect when that happens. You should end up with all the new work from both former hosts all merged together in a single queue on 840813.
I deliberately put 0.000000 in the instructions because I knew that BOINC will write out 6 decimal digits every time it updates that value. You would think it would be happy with a plain 0 but I've actually never been game to test that even though I've done this exact same edit many times before. I've always used 0.00000 to be safe. I don't know that this was the problem but I'm not suggesting we try it again to find out :).
When I did that kind of edit a while ago I just put a plain 0 in there. So I can tell you BOINC doesn't have any problem with that.
Hmmm, interesting. I haven't done a debt reset in a while, but my experience has been the same as Gary's. If you just replace the value with '0' instead of '0.000000', BOINC would revert to using the old value (which I assume meant it reverted to the value in the backup client_state file).
Guess if I get a "boredom moment" I'll give it a try with the later versions I'm running now to see if this changed.
Ok I did exactly as you
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Ok I did exactly as you posted,
Except for the last step as I rebooted the machine.
Now the values are:
Einstein
0.156250
Seti
-0.156250
I'm guessing this is more what we are looking for?
RE: Don't get me worried, I
)
Thank you Annika, I'm sure it will work out. Right now I am crunching Einstein units so things are better than they were. :-)
Oh and I'd prefer 10 degrees and rain any day over 40, and we sure do need rain here!
I could send you some, we
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I could send you some, we definitely have more than enough here ;-)
Good you finally got BOINC to do what it should :-)
RE: Ok I did exactly as you
)
Good. I deliberately put 0.000000 in the instructions because I knew that BOINC will write out 6 decimal digits every time it updates that value. You would think it would be happy with a plain 0 but I've actually never been game to test that even though I've done this exact same edit many times before. I've always used 0.00000 to be safe. I don't know that this was the problem but I'm not suggesting we try it again to find out :).
Same difference!! No problem.
Great!! This is exactly what you should be seeing.
The only problem left is that you now have two machine IDs on the EAH project. I'm guessing that the one in your state file at the moment will be recorded as 783254. You will find it several lines above the LTD value you have been editing. The newer one that you also have acquired is 840813 but I don't believe that this second one will show up in your state file.
Please let me know which one is currently there and I'll tell you how to merge them.
Cheers,
Gary.
Hi Gary, Yeah I've noticed
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Hi Gary,
Yeah I've noticed I now have two entries on the "your computers" page. If you are able to fix this so my original entry is left and the results on the second are transferred that would be great.
But I must stress, I did not change anything other than the LTD for Einstein and Seti using notepad, it's not like I was using vi on my FreeBSD box and deleted half the file. ;-)
Appreciate your help.
Sean
Ok here we go. The host id
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Ok here we go.
The host id is the new one.
840813
If you could step me through what to do I'll do it in the morning, it's getting a bit late. ;-)
Thank-you Gary.
RE: Ok here we go. The
)
OK, I was hoping it wouldn't be that one. Doesn't matter all that much. After the merge all your results and credit history will be back under one hostid anyway.
Yeah, I know :). I'm in Brisbane but I'm guessing you are south of the border and on daylight saving time so it is getting a little late for you. Bummer, just saw Lleyton lose his match in the Open.
Anyway, here are your instructions for the morning:-
*At the bottom of the page that comes up you will see the "Merge ..." link
*Click the link and follow the instructions
*You should be offered the option of merging 783254 with 840813. Accept this option.
You should be done. At the moment, before merging, 840813 has just 5 results in its list whilst 783254 has 221 which includes some new work and all your old results that haven't yet been deleted from the online database. Some of your old ones may disappear overnight but that is just normal behaviour. When you do the merge, whatever is left will be merged into the list for 840813 - at the moment 226 results in total.
The server will notice that you have new work under both 783254 and 840813 so when the merge occurs it will resend any lost or missing work and you should see a message to this effect when that happens. You should end up with all the new work from both former hosts all merged together in a single queue on 840813.
Let us know if anything seems amiss.
You're welcome.
Cheers,
Gary.
RE: I deliberately put
)
When I did that kind of edit a while ago I just put a plain 0 in there. So I can tell you BOINC doesn't have any problem with that.
Hmmm, interesting. I haven't
)
Hmmm, interesting. I haven't done a debt reset in a while, but my experience has been the same as Gary's. If you just replace the value with '0' instead of '0.000000', BOINC would revert to using the old value (which I assume meant it reverted to the value in the backup client_state file).
Guess if I get a "boredom moment" I'll give it a try with the later versions I'm running now to see if this changed.
Alinator
RE: RE: - currently due
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Well Ageless, you see, two days later with 12 people killed in germany alone, nobody will talk about "a little bit of wind" again... :( *GRRRR!*
Next time just leave it, please!
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