Upcoming SSL/TLS security updates / old BOINC client support

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If you're on Android, it

If you're on Android, it won't work. However, if you're using a PC, I use 7.16.5 which works for downloading. However, are you having issues uploading?

 

Sometimes I have trouble connecting to servers. When that happens, I click tasks -> 'show active tasks' and pause and click again to 'show all tasks', pause and repeat until it connects to the server. That happens anytime I reopen it and it disconnects from the server.

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If with "you" you mean the

If with "you" you mean the E@H project, then no, we are not aware of any server-side issues affecting uploads.

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pvh wrote: I have upgraded

pvh wrote:

I have upgraded my client to version 7.16.6, but I still cannot connect to the servers.

Please provide some log output. That should help find out what's wrong. It should be unrelated to the matters discussed here, though.

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Mike Davies
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I too am having problems.

I too am having problems. This is the boinc client as currently available in the Android Playstore which is version 7.4.53. Looks like the problem is with CA certificates.

Einstein says my computer last connected a few days ago. I've been trying to send a result for several days. Fortunately I still have a little work to do.

Last time contacted server: 25 May 2020 21:37:33 UTC

My log looks like this...

Client Messages

Fri May 29 18:12:25 GMT+01:00 2020||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
Fri May 29 18:12:24 GMT+01:00 2020||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
Fri May 29 18:12:23 GMT+01:00 2020|Einstein@Home|Fetching scheduler list
Fri May 29 18:10:43 GMT+01:00 2020||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
Fri May 29 18:10:42 GMT+01:00 2020|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request failed: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates
Fri May 29 18:10:42 GMT+01:00 2020||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
Fri May 29 18:10:41 GMT+01:00 2020|Einstein@Home|Not requesting tasks: don't need (job cache full)
Fri May 29 18:10:41 GMT+01:00 2020|Einstein@Home|Reporting 1 completed tasks
Fri May 29 18:10:41 GMT+01:00 2020|Einstein@Home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Fri May 29 18:10:40 GMT+01:00 2020|Einstein@Home|update requested by user
Fri May 29 18:10:30 GMT+01:00 2020||Resuming network activity
Fri May 29 18:07:50 GMT+01:00 2020||Suspending network activity - not connected to WiFi network
Fri May 29 18:07:50 GMT+01:00 2020||Suspending computation - on batteries
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Not using a proxy
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||(to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 70%
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||don't use GPU while active
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||don't compute while active
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||max CPUs used: 1
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||max disk usage: 2.89GB
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||max memory usage when idle: 1419.26MB
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||max memory usage when active: 887.04MB
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Preferences:
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Reading preferences override file
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020|Einstein@Home|URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 12595425; resource share 100
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Config: report completed tasks immediately
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Local time is UTC +1 hours
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Disk: 11.57 GB total, 3.85 GB free
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Memory: 1.73 GB physical, 512.00 MB virtual
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||OS: Android: 3.4.0-perf-gc14c2d5
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Processor features: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Using 2 CPUs
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Processor: 4 ARM ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l)
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Host name: android_b1b28d9f
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||No usable GPUs found
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Data directory: /data/data/edu.berkeley.boinc/client
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Running as a daemon
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Libraries: libcurl/7.48.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Starting BOINC client version 7.4.53 for arm-android-linux-gnu

 

I must say none of my other computers are having problems. Just this android phone which is trying to send a result before the cut off of 31st May 2020 08:11:17.

 

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As requested, here is the log

As requested, here is the log out

2020-05-29T21:28:38 CEST | Einstein@Home | update requested by user
2020-05-29T21:28:41 CEST | Einstein@Home | Fetching scheduler list
2020-05-29T21:28:43 CEST |  | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2020-05-29T21:28:46 CEST |  | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.


So the same as Mike Davies. This is on openSUSE linux 15.1 and the 7.16.6 client. I have a ton of WUs sitting "ready to report" but cannot report them...

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pvh wrote: As requested,

pvh wrote:

As requested, here is the log out

2020-05-29T21:28:38 CEST | Einstein@Home | update requested by user
2020-05-29T21:28:41 CEST | Einstein@Home | Fetching scheduler list
2020-05-29T21:28:43 CEST |  | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2020-05-29T21:28:46 CEST |  | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.


So the same as Mike Davies. This is on openSUSE linux 15.1 and the 7.16.6 client. I have a ton of WUs sitting "ready to report" but cannot report them... 

Thisis your problem:

"BOINC client version:7.8.3"

  • Minimum BOINC version as of Nov. 27th 2019: 7.4.36
  • Minimum BOINC version as of May  25th 2020: 7.10

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Keith Myers wrote:  You can

Keith Myers wrote:
  You can add the BOINC ppa managed by Gianfranco Costamagna at his ppa.  Gianfranco Costamagna - BOINC ppa

That ppa worked with Synaptic to show the latest version of Boinc and it worked great thanks!! My question is I installed Boinc 7.9.3

   

on several other Linux Mint machines and now want to update it, is it as simple as adding the ppa and then searching for Boinc and the package manager will remove the old version and install the new selected version?

As a work around I could clone the drive and then swap them into each machine to get the updated client but that's alot of work for me as I now have 6 or 7, out of 18 total, pc's  running Linux Mint.

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mikey wrote: Thisis your

mikey wrote:

Thisis your problem:

"BOINC client version:7.8.3"

  • Minimum BOINC version as of Nov. 27th 2019: 7.4.36
  • Minimum BOINC version as of May  25th 2020: 7.10

My old client was version 7.8.3, but as I already stated, I have version 7.16.6 now:

% ./boinc --version
7.16.6 x86_64-suse-linux-gnu

 

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pvh wrote: mikey

pvh wrote:

mikey wrote:

Thisis your problem:

"BOINC client version:7.8.3"

  • Minimum BOINC version as of Nov. 27th 2019: 7.4.36
  • Minimum BOINC version as of May  25th 2020: 7.10

My old client was version 7.8.3, but as I already stated, I have version 7.16.6 now:

% ./boinc --version
7.16.6 x86_64-suse-linux-gnu 

No idea but when I look at your pc's I see this:

COMPUTER ID RANK AVG. CREDIT TOTAL CREDIT BOINC VERSION CPU GPU OPERATING SYSTEM LAST CONTACT
ID: 8366240
Details | Tasks Cross-project stats: 
1 261,004.78 397,894,338 7.8.3 AuthenticAMD
AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core Processor [Family 23 Model 49 Stepping 0]
(64 processors)
AMD AMD Radeon (TM) RX 480 Graphics (3750MB) Linux openSUSE Leap
openSUSE Leap 15.1 [4.12.14-lp151.28.48-default]
26 May 2020 8:57:16 UTC
ID: 7558193
Details | Tasks
Cross-project stats: 
2 114,017.99 97,758,633 7.8.3 GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 63 Stepping 2]
(32 processors)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (3014MB) driver: 390.11 Linux openSUSE Leap
openSUSE Leap 15.1 [4.12.14-lp151.28.48-default]
25 May 2020 20:13:15 UTC
ID: 12473439
Details | Tasks
Cross-project stats: 
3 110,287.20 131,284,977 7.8.3

 

Did you reboot after the update?

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Mike Davies wrote:I too am

Mike Davies wrote:
I too am having problems. This is the boinc client as currently available in the Android Playstore which is version 7.4.53. Looks like the problem is with CA certificates.

Yes, that's given in the event log as the real problem (5th line in what you posted).

If you have a more recent installation that is working, you could try copying the certificates file (ca-bundle.crt) from the BOINC data directory on the working machine and use it to replace the corresponding file on the non-working machine.  If you then restart BOINC, it should start working.

Cheers,
Gary.

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