Nice, isn't it?

The SETI project is EMPTY on my CPU, yet my account RESULTS show some work unit should be computed.

I can see many people have similar problems.
But no answers on that :-(

I think I'll better quit the project.

Bye.

Easy solution: Change your computer clock. I had a similar problem, so I added the defferal time to the current time, set my clock to about 5 minutes before that, waited five minutes, and SETI decided it was through with the deferral and contacted the server to download more work. When it was through downloading, I reset my clock to the correct time and proceeded merrily on my way!

C

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> Easy solution: Change your computer clock. I had a similar problem, so I
> added the defferal time to the current time, set my clock to about 5 minutes
> before that, waited five minutes, and SETI decided it was through with the
> deferral and contacted the server to download more work. When it was through
> downloading, I reset my clock to the correct time and proceeded merrily on my
> way!
>
> C


That's one way to solve the problem. But when the client still won't work (dreaded empty file error) then it's moot. This crud just doesn't work on 10.2.8.

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A second option is to manually edit the rpcmin line in the client_state.xml file (when boinx has stopped running), and set it to 0. Restart boinc. Boinc should contact the server immediately. Your account results will be updated only when seti contacts the server, not when seti sends the results back to the server.

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> A second option is to manually edit the rpcmin line in the client_state.xml
> file (when boinx has stopped running), and set it to 0...

I could not find rpcmin string in the file :(
The only fix I found is reattaching to the project. But this aborts work units already downloaded. And the project knows nothing about it - meaning it still waits for the results.

ALX

Sorry, I was a bit off. The string is called min_rpc_time. It's under a subheading called project in the client_state.xml file (should be in the parent boinc directory). In the file, min_rpc_time will be set to some huge number (in my file, it is 1112442888. This can be safely set to zero. Start boinc again - it should connect immediately.

Data on workunits (name of file and status comes at the bottom of the same file.

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