"file not found" when client tries to download - server side error?
15 Feb 2008 15:17:21 UTC
Topic 193516
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Dear All,
I have such download errors repeating reproducibly for several days now.
Here is one the the WU's which could not be downloaded:
http://einsteinathome.org/workunit/37069013
one more:
http://einsteinathome.org/workunit/37069001
And a whole list of them here:
http://einsteinathome.org/account/tasks
I suspect this should be a server side error?
Cheers,
Igor
"file not found" when client tries to download - server side err
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This is discussed
here.
Michael
Team Linux Users Everywhere
Can any of the BOINC experts
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Can any of the BOINC experts here shed light on how the download mechanism in BOINC works wrt the different mirror sites? How does the client pick a mirror, and why isn't it trying an alternative mirror when one fails? Bug or feature?
CU
Bikeman
I had to check into that.
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I had to check into that. Here's what the integrated mirroring should do:
It checks the mirror closest to the time zone of the client. If it can't find that mirror, it should automatically try another in the list, also closest to the time zone. And so further until all mirrors are done.
It is possible that some tasks just aren't there, not on the master server and not on the mirrors. In that case there's nothing BOINC can do. But if the task is available at other servers and can be downloaded by hand, then it would seem that the mirror switching mechanism isn't working.
The question to ask is which BOINC versions are affected?
Hi! While there have been
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Hi!
While there have been reports of some files which indeed seem to be absent from all mirrors by accident, there are other reports where changing the timezone of the PC seems to have fixed a download problem, which to me seems to indicate the alternative-mirror-fallback mechanism is indeed broken:
Workunit:
http://einsteinathome.org/task/92293674
Thread:
http://einsteinathome.org/node/193514&nowrap=true#81054
here the file in question is the 4.26 Win App executable, which must be downloadable from somewhere :-).
CU
Bikeman
Apparently it's broken.
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Apparently it's broken. ;-)
I emailed David Anderson about it, he asked me to put it into Trac. Done that: [trac]#556[/trac]