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Message 5386 - Posted: 8 Jul 2004, 21:09:35 UTC
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This has got to be the most Stupid Advice I have ever heard of. What about all the Wu's that will be dumped when people take this advice and then everybody's sitting around for the next 2 weeks wondering why they can't get no Wu's Verified. It will be because of this advice, thats why...

I suggest you just manually update your PC or PC,s, thats what I did and it wasn't that big of a deal, I have a lot of WU's Cached and just didn't feel like dumping them so they would have to be reissued in 2 weeks ...

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Message 5394 - Posted: 8 Jul 2004, 21:57:49 UTC - in response to Message 5386.  

Seconded - don't do it, it buggers up all the WU's honest crunchers have done and we have to wait another several weeks before the WU is given to someone else and then comeas back before we get credit.

Wake up berkeley - this is the real world, its called firewalls and PAT - just direct the traffic sideways seamlesasly without people binning dozens of WU's.

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Message 5396 - Posted: 8 Jul 2004, 21:59:54 UTC
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Agreed.

Let's see how long it will take before they remove the "advice" from the main page... if they ever do, that is.

Sheesh. :(
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Message 5435 - Posted: 8 Jul 2004, 23:19:23 UTC - in response to Message 5396.  

> Agreed.
>
> Let's see how long it will take before they remove the "advice" from the main
> page... if they ever do, that is.
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> Sheesh. :(
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I would bet the advice will not be removed. Detaching and reattaching is the only option for people that attached to the setiboinc URL. Only if you are attached to http://setiathome.berkeley.edu will the update happen automatically after several failed attempts.

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Message 5439 - Posted: 8 Jul 2004, 23:28:07 UTC - in response to Message 5435.  
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> I would bet the advice will not be removed. Detaching and reattaching is the
> only option for people that attached to the setiboinc URL. Only if you are
> attached to http://setiathome.berkeley.edu will the update happen
> automatically after several failed attempts.
>
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> BOINCing since 2002/12/08

But surely there are very few people attached to the setiboinc url. The url was changed to the current one the day it went live, so only mostly beta testers would have ever been connected with that url in the first place. Additionally, they posted on June 22 for everyone to switch to the new url if you were using a different one. Even I changed the url that day - and I'm usually bringing up the rear when it comes to being current and on top of things - so I can't imagine that many are still using it.


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Message 5454 - Posted: 8 Jul 2004, 23:49:38 UTC - in response to Message 5439.  

>
> > I would bet the advice will not be removed. Detaching and reattaching is
> the
> > only option for people that attached to the setiboinc URL. Only if you
> are
> > attached to http://setiathome.berkeley.edu will the update happen
> > automatically after several failed attempts.
> >
John Keck
> > BOINCing since 2002/12/08
>
> But surely there are very few people attached to the setiboinc url.
> The url was changed to the current one the day it went live, so only mostly
> beta testers would have ever been connected with that url in the first place.
> Additionally, they posted on June 22 for everyone to switch to the new url if
> you were using a different one. Even I changed the url that day - and I'm
> usually bringing up the rear when it comes to being current and on top of
> things - so I can't imagine that many are still using it.
>

For those of us that switched over a while back (or joined under the new URL) there is a much safer solution. Manually update ten or eleven times, and the new scheduler is found.
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Message 5458 - Posted: 8 Jul 2004, 23:54:35 UTC - in response to Message 5454.  

> >
> > > I would bet the advice will not be removed. Detaching and
> reattaching is
> > the
> > > only option for people that attached to the setiboinc URL. Only if
> you
> > are
> > > attached to http://setiathome.berkeley.edu will the update happen
> > > automatically after several failed attempts.
> > >
John Keck
> > > BOINCing since 2002/12/08
> >
> > But surely there are very few people attached to the setiboinc
> url.
> > The url was changed to the current one the day it went live, so only
> mostly
> > beta testers would have ever been connected with that url in the first
> place.
> > Additionally, they posted on June 22 for everyone to switch to the new
> url if
> > you were using a different one. Even I changed the url that day - and
> I'm
> > usually bringing up the rear when it comes to being current and on top
> of
> > things - so I can't imagine that many are still using it.
> >
>
> For those of us that switched over a while back (or joined under the new URL)
> there is a much safer solution. Manually update ten or eleven times, and the
> new scheduler is found.
> >
> >
>
>
Just a wild guess, but one could probably update one of the .xml files in their Boinc seti directory?

I was one of the "fools" who took the advice on the site to "simply detach and then (re)attach" ....
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Message 5461 - Posted: 9 Jul 2004, 0:02:53 UTC - in response to Message 5454.  

> For those of us that switched over a while back (or joined under the new URL)
> there is a much safer solution. Manually update ten or eleven times, and the
> new scheduler is found.

Yes, but how do you do that on a Linux box? ;)
We're letting it run its course at the moment.
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Message 5465 - Posted: 9 Jul 2004, 0:11:36 UTC - in response to Message 5458.  
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> Just a wild guess, but one could probably update one of the .xml files in
> their Boinc seti directory?

Most of the xml files contain a reference to the source scheduler. Possibly just changing this url might correct it (but of course they didn't post the new url that it will use).

All of my hosts are Linux, so I can't even force the manual updates. At this point, all of mine have already hit their low-water marks and downloaded Predictor work units since they couldn't contact seti. They continue to try as they have uploaded work units they want to report, so I'm just going to let them go while they run their course of absurdly long deferrals and eventually they'll tire themselves out and finally ask for a master file fetch.


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Message 5471 - Posted: 9 Jul 2004, 0:39:23 UTC - in response to Message 5461.  

> > For those of us that switched over a while back (or joined under the new
> URL)
> > there is a much safer solution. Manually update ten or eleven times, and
> the
> > new scheduler is found.
>
> Yes, but how do you do that on a Linux box? ;)
> We're letting it run its course at the moment.
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Sorry, I'm using a windows system and didn't realize the xml files weren't available to a linux system. I was upset over losing 20 hours of work and was just reponding with a "why couldn't they have output the information in a better format."
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Message 5496 - Posted: 9 Jul 2004, 1:34:05 UTC - in response to Message 5471.  


> Sorry, I'm using a windows system and didn't realize the xml files weren't
> available to a linux system.

XML is there on all platforms I've seen, but on linux, boinc is not a "window", it's a command line process. There's no button.. there's a command line option -update_prefs, but it means starting/killing the process over and over..

One of my linux boxes did recover after about 4 hours, but the my main linux box is back doing Seti 1, so I see in a few months....
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Message 5511 - Posted: 9 Jul 2004, 1:59:28 UTC

Just a comment: I haven't had a single SETI WU in about 5 days, and for anyone with nothing cached, detatching and reattaching is a perfectly acceptable method of forcing the update... we delete nothing, so it makes everything just a little faster.

Of course, I reattatch just moments after PAH requests about 14 x 3 = 42 h of work... *sigh*
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Message 5516 - Posted: 9 Jul 2004, 2:08:49 UTC - in response to Message 5511.  
Last modified: 9 Jul 2004, 2:10:34 UTC

> Of course, I reattatch just moments after PAH requests about 14 x 3 = 42 h of
> work... *sigh*

Which shouldn't matter, if you have set correct preferences for Seti@home. And off the 14 units PAH just sent you, there's probably a couple of charmm units in there as well, they run a lot quicker.

Yet maybe you should reset your caching preferences in your Seti General preferences (in Your Account) to something with a lower low-water mark. Setting it to 0.1 days to 1 day may give you units earlier than setting it to 1 to 2 days.

Do know that setting preferences for the last project you attached to will set these preferences for all[/b] BOINC projects you participate in. Read the small lettering at the top of the General preferences page.
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Message 5517 - Posted: 9 Jul 2004, 2:11:19 UTC

For those people complaining about 'how to manually update' their linux boxes over a network:

You can run your linux client using the '-allow_remote_gui_rpc' switch.

When running boincview, you set up a location to point to your linux box's ip address, and then click the 'projects tab, and manually update using a rightclick.


Then, you can use an app like Boincview to remotely view and adminster boinc over the network.
I don't recommend using Boincview for long periods, as it (Boincview verson 0.7e) takes up 10% of my 2.2 ghz celeron's cpu under XP.


link to boincview http://boincview.amanheis.de/
Boincview runs under windows, and I've made it run under wine (with a huge performance hit)
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Message 5524 - Posted: 9 Jul 2004, 2:29:56 UTC - in response to Message 5517.  
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OK- I'm one of those who was doing the beta test and just noticed that my URL was never changed over to the new one as I had a full cache and did not want to trash the work.
So now I cannot update and have a stack of units ready to report plus 3 days of unprocessed WU's I'd rather keep.
In my boinc client state file I see this in part:

(scheduler_url)http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi(/scheduler_url)
(master_url)http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/(/master_url)
(project_name)SETI@home(/project_name)
(user_name>)Carl Cuseo(/user_name)
(team_name)Carolyn's Clinic(/team_name).....etc

less/more changed to )(

Anyone tell me whay the scheduler & master lines hould look like to allow updates?

Thanks...cc
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Message 5534 - Posted: 9 Jul 2004, 3:04:47 UTC
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Carl, as a work-around you could try the following:

Stop the BOINC GUI client.
Start -> Run, type cmd {hit enter}
Navigate to your BOINC folder using DOS commands:
- example given: cd c:program filesboinc {hit enter}
When you're there, simply type the following on the command line:

boinc_cli -update_prefs http://setiathome.berkeley.edu {hit enter}

This will start the CLI, will make sure you are contacting the correct scheduler for now. If it fails to make contact, press CTRL+Break.

It's even easier if you make the above a shortcut on your windows desktop.

- In Windows, navigate to your BOINC folder.
- Resize the window you're working in so you can see part of your desktop.
- Scroll down until you see boinc_cli.exe in the BOINC folder.
- Right-click it, then move it to the desktop while you hold the right mouse button down. Over the desktop, let go of the RMB, then leftclick on Make Shortcut here.
- Rightclick on the icon you just made, properties.
- in the Target line, add a space and -update_prefs http://setiathome.berkeley.edu and press Apply.
- doubleclick this icon when you want to start the CLI. To stop it, use CTRL+Break.


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Message 5554 - Posted: 9 Jul 2004, 4:39:43 UTC

@carl
(master_url)http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/(/master_url)
That line should read:
(master_url)http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/(/master_url)
The setiboinc url will not work anymore. Looks like a detach and reattach are in your future.

@darren
It is possible to edit xml, it has to be done in several places though and if messed up it may require a reinstall to fix.

1) The line quoted above in client_state.xml

2) A similar line in the account..xml file. The file itself will also have to be renamed to 'account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml'.

3) The project folder will also have to be renamed to 'setiathome.berkeley.edu'.

Expect the current workunit to error out even if done correctly. Other work in the queue should be preserved though. There may be other warning/error messages generated that will fix themselves. Be sure to exit the client while your editing, also do a restart or two to work out other to things that the client will fix on it's own.

@to those running *nix or other CLI versions:
I'm not sure if it works this way on the CLI versions, but on the GUI once you do the update command it keeps trying until a connection is made. So after about 12 hours of backoffs the client will have made enough attemps to get the new url from one update command.

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Message 5556 - Posted: 9 Jul 2004, 4:45:35 UTC - in response to Message 5516.  

> Which shouldn't matter, if you have set correct preferences for Seti@home. And
> off the 14 units PAH just sent you, there's probably a couple of charmm units
> in there as well, they run a lot quicker.

Actually, the last 4 charmms I had took almost as long as a normal mfold. (40-45 minutes on my machine)

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Message 5562 - Posted: 9 Jul 2004, 5:00:37 UTC - in response to Message 5554.  


> @darren
> It is possible to edit xml, it has to be done in several places though and if
> messed up it may require a reinstall to fix.
>
> 1) The line quoted above in client_state.xml
>
> 2) A similar line in the account..xml file. The file itself will also have to
> be renamed to 'account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml'.
>
> 3) The project folder will also have to be renamed to
> 'setiathome.berkeley.edu'.
>
> Expect the current workunit to error out even if done correctly. Other work in
> the queue should be preserved though. There may be other warning/error
> messages generated that will fix themselves. Be sure to exit the client while
> your editing, also do a restart or two to work out other to things that the
> client will fix on it's own.

I just let them all run their course and change it themselves. I've been connected to the correct master url since the day it went live (I changed them all from setiboinc to setiathome when the first notice came out on 22 June), so it was only the fetch url that had to update. Since I also do predictor, it was no problem for me to let everything fail on seti until it all got reset. FYI, it's only taking about 7 hours for them to correct on their own. The first 6 fails all only had a 1 minute deferral, then about 15 minutes, 45 minutes, 2 hours and 4 hours, respectively. All but 1 of 7 have already completed the cycle, but of course they're all loaded up to the hilt again with predictor units - so those will all finish tomorrow just in time for the WU shortage Rom mentioned ;-/


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Message 5599 - Posted: 9 Jul 2004, 7:36:56 UTC - in response to Message 5534.  

> Stop the BOINC GUI client.
> Start -> Run, type cmd {hit enter}
> Navigate to your BOINC folder using DOS commands:
> - example given: cd c:program filesboinc {hit enter}
> When you're there, simply type the following on the command line:
>
> boinc_cli -update_prefs http://setiathome.berkeley.edu {hit enter}
>
> This will start the CLI, will make sure you are contacting the correct
> scheduler for now. If it fails to make contact, press CTRL+Break.

I tried this but i only get "project http://setiathome.berkeley.edu not found" what should i do ?
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