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Message 51658 - Posted: 8 Mar 2025, 12:47:35 UTC

I assume most people would never see this but I though I would report it anyhow.

I lowered the power limit on my process to save some energy, at some point if you lower it too much then the time to boot up the vm so they fail with missing heartbeat.
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Message 52068 - Posted: 6 Aug 2025, 20:51:42 UTC

All my CMS jobs are failing. The error is "VM Heartbeat file specified, but missing" (Exit status: -163 (0xFFFFFF5D) ERR_FILE_MISSING).
Do you find any solution?
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Message 52069 - Posted: 7 Aug 2025, 5:57:07 UTC - in response to Message 52068.  

Your computer needs a permanent and stable internet connection with certain ports being open in your firewall.
Most of your logs show that the VMs can't contact the required services.

Also see "My firewall is complaining. Which ports does this project use?":
https://lhcathome.web.cern.ch/faq
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Message 52080 - Posted: 12 Aug 2025, 10:07:03 UTC - in response to Message 52069.  
Last modified: 12 Aug 2025, 10:26:43 UTC

Hi computezrmle,
Thanks
The issue is related to Wifi.
I have just switched to wired connection and all works fine.
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