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Message 76103 - Posted: 3 Feb 2005, 0:14:19 UTC

It seems the host Merging is not working. I get the page to merge the hosts, but it doesn't display any hosts....
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Message 76111 - Posted: 3 Feb 2005, 0:29:27 UTC - in response to Message 76103.  

> It seems the host Merging is not working. I get the page to merge the hosts,
> but it doesn't display any hosts....
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You can only merge hosts if the CPU identifier strings and the OS identifier strings are equal.


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Message 76126 - Posted: 3 Feb 2005, 1:01:35 UTC - in response to Message 76103.  

> It seems the host Merging is not working. I get the page to merge the hosts,
> but it doesn't display any hosts....

And in some cases, like mine, it gets it wrong, and you may have to do it a couple times to get it straight. In my case I had two copies of EQ-1, but Merge would only merge to P4a ... so I did that and kicked it, cause a new host to be generated and this time it let me merge the two EQ-1 machines into the correct single doohickie ...

Sorry for the outburst of technical terms ...
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Message 76223 - Posted: 3 Feb 2005, 7:39:32 UTC - in response to Message 76126.  

> > It seems the host Merging is not working. I get the page to merge the
> hosts,
> > but it doesn't display any hosts....
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> And in some cases, like mine, it gets it wrong, and you may have to do it a
> couple times to get it straight. In my case I had two copies of EQ-1, but
> Merge would only merge to P4a ... so I did that and kicked it, cause a new
> host to be generated and this time it let me merge the two EQ-1 machines into
> the correct single doohickie ...
>
> Sorry for the outburst of technical terms ...
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You mean
"doohickie" ...?

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Message 76233 - Posted: 3 Feb 2005, 8:50:44 UTC - in response to Message 76223.  

He meant "chotchkie".
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Message 76245 - Posted: 3 Feb 2005, 12:11:08 UTC

Well, I was thinking of using the less common, but more correct, "multi-tanikled weekerbill" but figured that most people here would not know that term but would be fine with the more common but less precise term.
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Message 76264 - Posted: 4 Feb 2005, 0:29:01 UTC

Maybe the problem is related to excessive OHS.

OHS=operator head space
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Message 76296 - Posted: 4 Feb 2005, 2:17:20 UTC - in response to Message 76103.  

> It seems the host Merging is not working. I get the page to merge the hosts,
> but it doesn't display any hosts....
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don't worry, mine won't work either, almost 2 weeks now.
my win98 machine that likes to create a new host number every month or so, haven't been able to merge it this last time.

also just had to format a laptop and i can't merge it either.

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Message 76480 - Posted: 4 Feb 2005, 18:09:04 UTC - in response to Message 76103.  

> It seems the host Merging is not working. I get the page to merge the hosts,
> but it doesn't display any hosts....
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I had the same problem about 3 months ago. Don't remember where I read it, but you can't merge hosts as long as they are linked to your results in your account result page . So just wait a month or two, until the result page is "refreshed" and then merge your hosts.


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Message 76573 - Posted: 4 Feb 2005, 21:56:18 UTC - in response to Message 76480.  


> Don't remember where I read it, but you can't merge hosts as long as they are
> linked to your results in your account result page .

You can merge them - you just can't delete them. With a little lateral thinking, you can merge almost anything. ;) I've managed to merge two entirely different machines and also one dual-boot machine using Windows and Linux. :)


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Message 76688 - Posted: 5 Feb 2005, 3:48:30 UTC - in response to Message 76573.  

How? I've tried passing all of BOINC's files between Mac OS X and Yellow Dog Linux, I've tried running from /dev/hdaX/boinc, and I've tried using FTP space as the storage site - How did you pull it off??
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Message 76695 - Posted: 5 Feb 2005, 4:16:06 UTC - in response to Message 76688.  

> How? I've tried passing all of BOINC's files between Mac OS X and
> Yellow Dog Linux, I've tried running from /dev/hdaX/boinc, and
> I've tried using FTP space as the storage site - How did you pull it off??
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1. With the 2 different machines, one a Pentium 120 and the other a Pentium 133, I gave them the same hostname and both were running Linux - although two very different versions. However, that was enough to make them look similar enough to the BOINC server.

2. To merge the Windows "machine", I just copied the BOINC folder from the Windows partition to the Linux one and ran the Linux client from there. It trashed the current WU but, on checking the website, it had made the two "machines" look similar enough to merge them - i.e. it had updated the OS and hostname so that they were the same - and, of course, the CPU already was. The hostnames were already the same except that Windows had tacked the domain name onto the end.

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Message 76701 - Posted: 5 Feb 2005, 4:43:22 UTC - in response to Message 76695.  
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Dang! I've only got the one box, and I tried your Windows<&mdash;>Linux trick without any success. [sigh] Oh, well... thanks for the how-to!
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Message 76804 - Posted: 5 Feb 2005, 14:24:07 UTC - in response to Message 76701.  

> Dang! I've only got the one box, and I tried your WindowsLinux
> trick without any success. [sigh] Oh, well... thanks for the how-to!
>

NA,

once we get moved to the new database, this may work again. if i can get my systems to merge, i'll let you know to try again.

i think the problem rioght now is just that merging is not working for any one.

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