1) Message boards : CMS Application : Why all CMS virtualbox task were all failed... host was damaged? (Message 51339)
Posted 28 Dec 2024 by Dark Angel
Post:
Please stop running these CMS tasks since it is just a waste of your time and there is no problem on your end.
We are just waiting for new work to be ready at the server and the update will most likely come from Ivan when that happens and most likely in January

We have this same thing every December


That's true, but they should still be completing without massive numbers of errors. The fact that there's no actual work for them to do is a separate issue to the errors.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc and Docker (Message 51142)
Posted 26 Nov 2024 by Dark Angel
Post:
Nope, you're whinging, and you're also categorically wrong in your insistence on using the term "vast". Go find a dictionary and look it up. The word has a meaning. You are misusing it. The word "fact" also has a meaning and you're misusing that as well.
Since the entire foundation of your whinge is objectively wrong, the singular reason to switch Windows machines from VBox to Docker, which is unnecessary anyway, would be to shut you up.
Or you could just do that of your own volition and save CERN the effort of changing a system that only you are railing against.
3) Message boards : ATLAS application : All tasks failing (Message 51141)
Posted 26 Nov 2024 by Dark Angel
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Have we kicked the Trisolarians out of the system yet? Or is it the work experience kid still configuring things?
4) Message boards : ATLAS application : All tasks failing (Message 51122)
Posted 23 Nov 2024 by Dark Angel
Post:
Come on folks, really??
cvmfs_config probe returns normally so it's not my local machine or network, the data simply isn't there.

[2024-11-23 19:24:26] "exeErrorCode": 0,
[2024-11-23 19:24:26] "exeErrorDiag": "",
[2024-11-23 19:24:26] "pilotErrorCode": 1305,
[2024-11-23 19:24:26] "pilotErrorDiag": "Failed to execute payload:/bin/bash: Sim_tf.py: command not found\n",

So what's new up there since the last time the Altas project had viable work? New work experience kids? New hardware that hasn't been configured? Someone got switched to decaf as a prank?
5) Questions and Answers : Windows : computational error (Message 51095)
Posted 18 Nov 2024 by Dark Angel
Post:
everything seems to be operational on LHC's end the server status says its running but I keep getting computational error


Have a look in the CMS section. All the units are broken due to a firewall issue. It's affected everyone running CMS.
6) Message boards : CMS Application : Problems connecting to servers? (Message 51080)
Posted 17 Nov 2024 by Dark Angel
Post:
95 down with this. Here's the first, whatever happened to the server happened near the end of this unit
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=416589013

2024-11-16 20:16:38 (1131410): Guest Log: NCAT DEBUG: Using system default trusted CA certificates and those in /usr/share/ncat/ca-bundle.crt.
2024-11-16 20:16:38 (1131410): Guest Log: NCAT DEBUG: Unable to load trusted CA certificates from /usr/share/ncat/ca-bundle.crt: error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory
2024-11-16 20:16:38 (1131410): Guest Log: libnsock nsi_new2(): nsi_new (IOD #1)
2024-11-16 20:16:38 (1131410): Guest Log: libnsock nsock_connect_tcp(): TCP connection requested to 137.138.156.85:9618 (IOD #1) EID 8
2024-11-16 20:16:38 (1131410): Guest Log: libnsock nsock_trace_handler_callback(): Callback: CONNECT TIMEOUT for EID 8 [137.138.156.85:9618]
2024-11-16 20:16:38 (1131410): Guest Log: Ncat: Connection timed out.
2024-11-16 20:16:38 (1131410): Guest Log: [ERROR] Could not connect to vocms0840.cern.ch on port 9618
2024-11-16 20:16:38 (1131410): Guest Log: [INFO] Testing connection to WMAgent
2024-11-16 20:16:39 (1131410): Guest Log: [INFO] Testing connection to EOSCMS
2024-11-16 20:16:39 (1131410): Guest Log: [INFO] Testing connection to CMS-Factory
2024-11-16 20:16:40 (1131410): Guest Log: [INFO] Testing connection to CMS-Frontier
2024-11-16 20:16:40 (1131410): Guest Log: [INFO] Testing connection to Frontier
2024-11-16 20:16:41 (1131410): Guest Log: [DEBUG] Check your firewall and your network load
2024-11-16 20:16:41 (1131410): Guest Log: [ERROR] Could not connect to all required network services
2024-11-16 20:16:41 (1131410): Guest Log: [DEBUG] Volunteer: Dark Angel (268818)
2024-11-16 20:16:41 (1131410): Guest Log: [INFO] Shutting Down.
2024-11-16 20:17:11 (1131410): VM Completion File Detected.
2024-11-16 20:17:11 (1131410): VM Completion Message: Could not connect to all required network services
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc and Docker (Message 51077)
Posted 16 Nov 2024 by Dark Angel
Post:
You consider that a "vast" difference. That pretty much settles the validity of the rest of your complaint. Enjoy your whinge.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc and Docker (Message 51071)
Posted 16 Nov 2024 by Dark Angel
Post:
Yes, you said ALL.


Ok, not all, but the ultra-vast majority.
So, what is the problem with Docker?


Not even "ultra-vast majority".

You know all those VBox apps are running Linux inside the VMs, right.
9) Message boards : ATLAS application : Last days a lot of validate errors or No Hits file produced (Message 51037)
Posted 10 Nov 2024 by Dark Angel
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I'm up to 670+ invalid tasks with my modest hardware, all failing around the 1 minute mark. Others will have far more with significant amounts of time and power wasted. Could someone perhaps stop loading these miss-configured units until things get fixed?
10) Message boards : ATLAS application : Failed to execute payload:/bin/bash: Sim_tf.py: command not found (Message 51033)
Posted 9 Nov 2024 by Dark Angel
Post:
I have over 450 invalids. Initially I blamed my own machines for conflicts or memory issues but after poking around uninstalling things, rebooting, removing and re-adding the project etc, and then observing it happening on more than one machine it seems it's the units themselves. Very frustrating.
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/results.php?userid=268818&offset=0&show_names=0&state=5&appid=
11) Message boards : ATLAS application : Problem of the day ATLAS (Message 50920)
Posted 25 Oct 2024 by Dark Angel
Post:
Multiple "file size too big" here

https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=415199482
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=415206927
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=415209263
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=415209312
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=415209313
12) Message boards : ATLAS application : The problem with the speed of sending the finished ATLAS sample. (Message 50903)
Posted 25 Oct 2024 by Dark Angel
Post:
How often do you reboot the machine?
13) Message boards : CMS Application : CMS@Home difficulties in attempts to prepare for multi-core jobs (Message 50069)
Posted 28 Apr 2024 by Dark Angel
Post:
So people are getting punished (host punishment, discussed on the linked page) for having to abort huge numbers of single core tasks that were never going to do actual work because the CMS team couldn't be arsed clearing out the work caches.
People punished because you lot didn't do your jobs.
And you're sneering down on people who don't appreciate being screwed around.
Real nice.

And the credit system used is a CHOICE made by each project. There are options. Bleating that the users need to complain elsewhere is another cop-out.
14) Message boards : CMS Application : CMS@Home difficulties in attempts to prepare for multi-core jobs (Message 50067)
Posted 28 Apr 2024 by Dark Angel
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That's a cop-out. Every other project is awarding points correctly. If it were not CMS related then Atlas and Theory would be showing the same issues. If it were VBox related then other VBox projects would show the same issues. They don't.
15) Message boards : CMS Application : CMS@Home difficulties in attempts to prepare for multi-core jobs (Message 50063)
Posted 28 Apr 2024 by Dark Angel
Post:
Run time 13 hours 22 min 46 sec
CPU time 1 days 22 hours 56 min 57 sec
Validate state Valid
Credit 7.75

Excuse me CMS admin? A moment of your time?

What the hell??
16) Message boards : ATLAS application : PC almost unresponsive when running 4x Atlas units (Message 50058)
Posted 27 Apr 2024 by Dark Angel
Post:
5950x, 128gb ram.
Ill try adjusting the number of cores and see if that helps cheers.


On you Windows PC
Go to the VirtualBox site and download the Extension Pack that matches the version of VirtualBox you have.
Open the VBox Manager app
Click File, then Tools, then Extension Pack manager, then Install.
Navigate to where you saved the Extension Pack file and select it.

Do the same with the Linux PC.
17) Message boards : CMS Application : CMS@Home difficulties in attempts to prepare for multi-core jobs (Message 50057)
Posted 27 Apr 2024 by Dark Angel
Post:
Run time 5 hours 58 min 38 sec
CPU time 14 hours 40 min 18 sec
Validate state Valid
Credit 3.56

Run time 3 hours 9 min 48 sec
CPU time 5 hours 46 min 57 sec
Validate state Valid
Credit 1.88

Run time 5 hours 50 min 56 sec
CPU time 14 hours 38 min 39 sec
Validate state Valid
Credit 3.63

Excuse me, but what??
18) Message boards : CMS Application : CMS@Home difficulties in attempts to prepare for multi-core jobs (Message 50054)
Posted 27 Apr 2024 by Dark Angel
Post:
I finally got some linux mt units.
Only ended up resetting the project several times and nuking eleven hundred plus empty single core units to finally get there.
19) Message boards : CMS Application : CMS@Home difficulties in attempts to prepare for multi-core jobs (Message 50048)
Posted 27 Apr 2024 by Dark Angel
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Some of us REALLY need the option to disable single core CMS work. I'm still getting nothing but the single core wrappers. Project reset does nothing but force me to download hefty vdi files over again and still gives me single core CMS. Multi threaded Atlas native works fine.
20) Message boards : CMS Application : CMS@Home difficulties in attempts to prepare for multi-core jobs (Message 50034)
Posted 24 Apr 2024 by Dark Angel
Post:
Turned off proxy in Boinc manager, reset project. Still only downloading the CMS_2022_09_07_prod.vdi and not the 70.20 (vbox64_mt_mcore_cms) one.
Turning proxy back on now.


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