downloading WUs is failing

bbsindex
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hi,

i just joined einstein@home and i have on 2 machines the same issue.

downloading WUs seems to be ok in the log but in the tasklist it says "failed to download".

i'm running boinc on a raspi 4b 2gb

here is the log:

12.07.2022 12:49:32 | Einstein@Home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
12.07.2022 12:49:32 | Einstein@Home | Reporting 35 completed tasks
12.07.2022 12:49:32 | Einstein@Home | Requesting new tasks for CPU
12.07.2022 12:49:34 | Einstein@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 27 new tasks
12.07.2022 12:49:36 | Einstein@Home | Started download of stochastic_full.bank
12.07.2022 12:49:36 | Einstein@Home | Started download of p2030.20181015.G61.87+01.55.N.b4s0g0.00000_3343.bin4
12.07.2022 12:49:37 | Einstein@Home | Finished download of stochastic_full.bank
12.07.2022 12:49:37 | Einstein@Home | Started download of p2030.20181015.G61.87+01.55.N.b4s0g0.00000_3384.bin4
12.07.2022 12:49:37 | Einstein@Home | [error] MD5 check failed for stochastic_full.bank
12.07.2022 12:49:37 | Einstein@Home | [error] expected d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e, got ec76f47a1aef9674beb4768ce416f5c3
12.07.2022 12:49:37 | Einstein@Home | [error] Checksum or signature error for stochastic_full.bank
12.07.2022 12:49:38 | Einstein@Home | Finished download of p2030.20181015.G61.87+01.55.N.b4s0g0.00000_3343.bin4
12.07.2022 12:49:38 | Einstein@Home | Finished download of p2030.20181015.G61.87+01.55.N.b4s0g0.00000_3384.bin4
12.07.2022 12:49:38 | Einstein@Home | Started download of p2030.20181015.G61.87+01.55.N.b6s0g0.00000_40.bin4
12.07.2022 12:49:38 | Einstein@Home | Started download of p2030.20181015.G61.87+01.55.N.b4s0g0.00000_3385.bin4

again: even the log says the download is finished it is listed as failed in the tasklist. there is enough free space on the drive.

any idea where the issue could be?

bluestang
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You say you have enough free

You say you have enough free space on the drive, but do you have enough allocated to BOINC in the BOINC manager itself or the project?

Also, you may have a bad connection and the downloads are corrupted causing the failures.

Ian&Steve C.
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it's a checksum error.

it's a checksum error. nothing to do with free space.

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Gary Roberts
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bbsindex wrote:i just joined

bbsindex wrote:
i just joined einstein@home and i have on 2 machines the same issue.

Welcome to the project!  Thanks for participating.

bbsindex wrote:
downloading WUs seems to be ok in the log but in the tasklist it says "failed to download".

Please understand that each task depends on two separate files.  The data for each task is contained in a unique file with a .bin4 extension.  In addition to data, each task requires the contents of a global file called stochastic_full.bank.  Everybody has to receive exactly the same contents for that file so a MD5 checksum is computed by the project and sent as well so that each recipient can check that the contents are correct.

As is shown in your log, the contents are somehow different from what was sent.  The checksum has changed and you need to work out why that is happening for your setup.  If it's happening on two separate machines, it's unlikely to be a hardware issue that would be specific to one machine.  Perhaps it's something to do with your internet connection.  Unfortunately, you (or someone with direct access) will need to sort that out.

Cheers,
Gary.

Gary Roberts
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There has been a further

There has been a further report of checksum errors for the same stochastic_full.bank file.  There is also a link to a similar problem back in 2017.  I've reported the details to project staff.

Hopefully there will be a fix for this very shortly.

EDIT:  The problem is now being dealt with by the staff.  You can read a response from Bernd in the thread I've linked above.

Cheers,
Gary.

bbsindex
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thx! it's working fine now

thx!

it's working fine now :)

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