1) Message boards : Number crunching : 'Uploading' but not in transfers list (Message 27085)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by SandJ
Post:
I don't suppose this is of any interest to anyone, but I'm wondering why this completed packet has a different .zip file to the two others that are complete and ready to be uploaded, and whether that is related.

# pwd
/var/lib/boinc-client/projects/lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch_sixtrack
# ls -la
total 18520
drwxrwx--x  2 simon boinc   12288 Jan 26 20:41 .
drwxrwx--x 19 boinc boinc    4096 Jan 11 22:18 ..
-rwxr-xr-x  1 boinc boinc 5858789 Aug  4 17:31 sixtrack_lin32_4517_pni.linux
-rwxr-xr-x  1 boinc boinc 5858789 Aug  3 01:48 sixtrack_lin64_4517_pni.linux
-rwxr-xr-x  1 boinc boinc 5871077 Aug  5 06:00 sixtrack_lin64_4517_sse2.linux
-rw-r--r--  1 boinc boinc       0 Jan 26 14:03 w16_job_inj_nobb__26__s__62.28_60.31__10_12__6__61.5_1_sixvf_boinc16503_1_0
-rw-r--r--  1 boinc boinc  346161 Jan 26 13:58 w16_job_inj_nobb__26__s__62.28_60.31__10_12__6__61.5_1_sixvf_boinc16503.zip
-rw-r--r--  1 boinc boinc  296995 Jan 15 14:43 w200_HLLHC_RFcav_scana2_150.BOINC__33__s__62.31_60.32__4_6__5__16.5_1_sixvf_boinc18564.zip
-rw-r--r--  1 boinc boinc  344519 Jan 26 20:25 w2_job_tracking_nobb_np_nt_dq-4_50Hz_2_om1__30__s__62.31_60.32__22_24__6__69_1_sixvf_boinc22133.zip
-rw-r--r--  1 boinc boinc  344522 Jan 26 20:25 w2_job_tracking_nobb_np_nt_dq-4_50Hz_2_om1__30__s__62.31_60.32__22_24__6__84_1_sixvf_boinc22143.zip
2) Message boards : Number crunching : 'Uploading' but not in transfers list (Message 27084)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by SandJ
Post:
Got another one ( work unit 25587189 )that has been stuck on 'Uploading' for days.

SixTrack v451.07 (pni)
Xubuntu 14.04
BOINC Manager v7.2.42 (x64)

3) Message boards : Number crunching : 'Uploading' but not in transfers list (Message 26723)
Posted 31 Jul 2014 by SandJ
Post:
So I upgraded a couple of weeks ago to v7.2.42 and it made no difference. Now I just have:

Sat 26 Jul 2014 16:48:57 BST | LHC@home 1.0 | Result w14_job_tracking_bb_np_nt_fset_240214_1k_x10_2__20__s__62.31_60.32__6_8__6__30_1_sixvf_boinc6864_0 is no longer usable
Sat 26 Jul 2014 16:48:57 BST | LHC@home 1.0 | Result w1_job_corr_bb_np_nt_fset_240214_1k_2__3__s__62.31_60.32__4_6__6__79.5_1_sixvf_boinc820_0 is no longer usable

through to

Thu 31 Jul 2014 21:22:30 BST | LHC@home 1.0 | Result w14_job_tracking_bb_np_nt_fset_240214_1k_x10_2__20__s__62.31_60.32__6_8__6__30_1_sixvf_boinc6864_0 is no longer usable
Thu 31 Jul 2014 21:22:30 BST | LHC@home 1.0 | Result w1_job_corr_bb_np_nt_fset_240214_1k_2__3__s__62.31_60.32__4_6__6__79.5_1_sixvf_boinc820_0 is no longer usable
Thu 31 Jul 2014 21:22:30 BST | LHC@home 1.0 | Result w-0.5_job.B1injection__15__s__64.281_59.3137__2_4__5__15.8824_1_sixvf_boinc7541_0 is no longer usable
Thu 31 Jul 2014 21:22:30 BST | LHC@home 1.0 | Result w-1.5_job.B1injection__22__s__64.281_59.3137__6_8__5__56.4707_1_sixvf_boinc11327_1 is no longer usable

so I've just done a 'Reset Project' and dealt with them that way. Hey ho.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : 'Uploading' but not in transfers list (Message 26700)
Posted 19 Jul 2014 by SandJ
Post:
Oh well, upgrading looks like my best bet after all, now I have 4 of these stuck packets:

Sat 19 Jul 2014 17:58:05 BST | LHC@home 1.0 | update requested by user
Sat 19 Jul 2014 17:58:06 BST | LHC@home 1.0 | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Sat 19 Jul 2014 17:58:06 BST | LHC@home 1.0 | Not requesting tasks: too many uploads in progress
Sat 19 Jul 2014 17:58:08 BST | LHC@home 1.0 | Scheduler request completed

Sat 19 Jul 2014 18:01:10 BST | LHC@home 1.0 | update requested by user
Sat 19 Jul 2014 18:01:13 BST | LHC@home 1.0 | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Sat 19 Jul 2014 18:01:13 BST | LHC@home 1.0 | Not requesting tasks: too many uploads in progress
Sat 19 Jul 2014 18:01:15 BST | LHC@home 1.0 | Scheduler request completed
5) Message boards : Number crunching : 'Uploading' but not in transfers list (Message 26636)
Posted 9 Jul 2014 by SandJ
Post:
You would perhaps be better off upgrading both components to v7.2.42 - the current 'recommended' - but I know some Linux distros were slow to update their repositories.

Over the years I've twice tried to upgrade BOINC Manager to a version newer than that provided by the repositories, and on both occasions ended up with a cocked-up PC. I'd also lose the two complete work packets plus other work that's under way.

There's nothing in the change logs about any of the versions between v7.2.7 and v7.2.42 altering how uploads work and I'm not having this trouble with any of my other projects.

Also, every upgrade to BOINC just introduces new bugs anyway, so I won't bother upgrading. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

Incidentally, someone else reported the same problem last October - link - on an Intel processor running BOINC v7.0.64 on Windows 8.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : 'Uploading' but not in transfers list (Message 26634)
Posted 8 Jul 2014 by SandJ
Post:
I have another work unit stuck at my end as "Uploading" but marked as "In progress" by the LHC@home server.
Work unit: 18509433
Task: 39413334
Both are SixTrack v451.07 (pni)
I am running Xubuntu 13.10 and BOINC Manager v7.2.7 (x64)
7) Message boards : Number crunching : 'Uploading' but not in transfers list (Message 26616)
Posted 4 Jul 2014 by SandJ
Post:
Work unit 18368005 has completed on my PC and BOINC Manager says "Uploading" but it does not appear on the Transfers tab and "Update" does not make it budge. It shows as "In progress" on the web site.

Other packets completed since that one are uploading OK.

Any suggestions?

8) Message boards : Cafe LHC : ~~~Last Person To Post Wins~~~ (Message 26176)
Posted 23 Jan 2014 by SandJ
Post:
TRA LA LEE, TRA LA LAA, I AM CERTAINLY A WINNER SOMEWHERE, WHY NOT HERE?

Ha HA!! I GOT BIGGERER CAPS THAN YOU!

MEH!
9) Message boards : Cafe LHC : ~~~Last Person To Post Wins~~~ (Message 26102)
Posted 21 Dec 2013 by SandJ
Post:
10) Message boards : Number crunching : October 22 2013 - Upload errors (Message 25991)
Posted 23 Oct 2013 by SandJ
Post:
I think you mean....

Let us use one thread for this topic instead of 3.

You will have better luck herding kittens.
Indeed. This the InterTubes. We can all have our own thread. Even more so since it seems there's no admin bods watching.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : October 22 2013 - Upload errors (Message 25925)
Posted 22 Oct 2013 by SandJ
Post:
The server reports it is out of filespace but don't believe it. There is usually room for a few more if you jiggle the files on the disk when the upload starts. The jiggling helps the files wiggle in just a little bit closer which frees up millions of bits the OS carelessly leaves between files. It's sort of like "remote defragging on the fly". Details of the technique follow...

Alternatively wait until Sunday. In lots of countries the clocks go back an hour which has the effect of squeezing everything that's being transmitted down the lines by putting the last hour's data on again and so putting more pressure on the bits being written to the disks. Because binary data is only in the ones, that compresses all the sequences of zeroes into fewer, or even just one, zero so data takes up less space. Then when the data from the hour-that's-written-twice is over, it is deleted and voila! there's free space on the disks.

We should really put the clocks back every weekend.

Also:

Tue 22 Oct 2013 17:37:08 BST | LHC@home 1.0 | [error] Error reported by file upload server: can't open log file '../log_boinc05/file_upload_handler.log' (errno: 9)
Tue 22 Oct 2013 17:37:08 BST | LHC@home 1.0 | [error] Error reported by file upload server: can't open log file '../log_boinc05/file_upload_handler.log' (errno: 9)

and

Tue 22 Oct 2013 17:41:07 BST | LHC@home 1.0 | Not requesting tasks: too many uploads in progress

:-(
12) Message boards : Cafe LHC : ~~~Last Person To Post Wins~~~ (Message 25470)
Posted 8 Mar 2013 by SandJ
Post:
There are two kinds of music: Kick-Butt or Whiny

A remarkable and seemingly original observation: that there is music which lifts the spirits, and music which delves into us and touches our soul. Music that can elevate us to see with wonder the potential of life's horizons from the foothills of the gods, and that which firmly pins us to the earth and our own futile mortality.

A yin of brass bands and heavy rock set against a yang of Enya and Morrissey.

But is there not a third kind, greater even than the first two? A kind which seems to stretch to eternity, making our very existence seem as a brief spark in a firmament of endless dark and cold? One that separates us from our human existence and makes us focus on the here and now with single-mindedness and a clarity of purpose. A condensate of the very essence of music which can instantly ignite blind passions or plunge us falling into bottomless pits of despair.

I speak of lift musac, telephone hold music, and the wallpaper music played in dentist's waiting rooms.
13) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Creating your new account - you can't! (Message 22818)
Posted 21 Jun 2011 by SandJ
Post:
I see the home page says:
20.06.2011 16:00 BST -
Project Registration Suspended
Due to technical problems registration to LHC@home has been indefinitely suspended. Sorry about this.
We are working on an upgrade which will let us re-enable the account creation but the timeline is not yet completely clear.
Alex
It sounds like a crisis occurred, especially since the site was down all weekend. (I wonder what the backstory is, that it resulted in new accounts being stopped. Somebody being naughty, I expect.)

Anyway, thanks for the heads-up, Alex, and good luck with the fix.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : 38.73 / 91.77 pending credits on a work unit - why just me? (Message 22606)
Posted 15 Nov 2010 by SandJ
Post:
Well, it's been a couple of years and it is still pending.

It was reported within the deadline, it was successful, and one of the others that was granted credit submitted their response a day after my computer did.

Link
15) Message boards : Number crunching : 38.73 / 91.77 pending credits on a work unit - why just me? (Message 19789)
Posted 7 Jul 2008 by SandJ
Post:
bump!


It is still 'pending'.

What should I do about it?
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Some work unit results are missing (Message 19675)
Posted 26 May 2008 by SandJ
Post:
Work units that have definitely disappeared since yesterday:

http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/workunit.php?wuid=2677126
8.27 credits

http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/workunit.php?wuid=2679049
10.22 credits

http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/workunit.php?wuid=2680200
0.97 credits
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Some work unit results are missing (Message 19674)
Posted 26 May 2008 by SandJ
Post:
Yesterday I got my quota of 10 work packets. In my results are only seven. My "results" shows the most recent as "25 May 2008 15:51:55 UTC" but I know I had some queued up after that time.

For example, work unit 2677126:

http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/workunit.php?wuid=2677126

yesterday said:

Workunit
application	SixTrack
created	25 May 2008 12:41:46 UTC
name	wm72zs_m72zs__36__64.31_59.32__20_22__6__10_1_sixvf_boinc368156
canonical result	13722192
granted credit	8.43
minimum quorum	3
initial replication	5
max # of error/total/success results	10, 20, 10
Result ID	Computer 	Sent 	Time reported or deadline	Server state  	Outcome  	Client state  	CPU time (sec) 	claimed credit 	granted credit
13722192 	9615190 	25 May 2008 12:41:54 UTC 	25 May 2008 15:51:55 UTC 	Over 	Success 	Done 	4,798.78 	8.43 	8.43
13722195 	9632096 	25 May 2008 12:41:54 UTC 	1 Jun 2008 4:14:08 UTC 	In Progress 	Unknown 	New 	--- 	--- 	---
13722193 	9621478 	25 May 2008 12:41:55 UTC 	25 May 2008 18:27:07 UTC 	Over 	Success 	Done 	5,755.58 	11.91 	8.43
13722196 	8485526 	25 May 2008 12:41:55 UTC 	1 Jun 2008 4:14:09 UTC 	In Progress 	Unknown 	New 	--- 	--- 	---
13722194 	9637875 	25 May 2008 12:41:56 UTC 	25 May 2008 14:24:44 UTC 	Over 	Success 	Done 	5,180.44 	8.35 	8.43


and now says:

"Unable to handle request
can't find workunit"

Another one is 2679049

http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/workunit.php?wuid=2679049

which had results:
13731824
13731822
13731826

which had 10.22 credits. Yesterday they were there - now they all say:

"Unable to handle request
No such result"

Why are work units and results disappearing?
18) Message boards : Number crunching : 38.73 / 91.77 pending credits on a work unit - why just me? (Message 19669)
Posted 25 May 2008 by SandJ
Post:
Work Unit id 2138565 was granted 91.77 credits.

Back on 8th Feb 2008 my machine finished crunching it (requesting 38.73 credits). The other 4 machines were granted 91.77 credits. Mine is left "Pending".

Why would that happen?

http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/workunit.php?wuid=2138565



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