I was just wondering if anybody could connect to the Message@Home Site. I haven't been able to since this morning.

I just connected OK.

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Hummmm...I still can't connect, I even used the Message@Home Tab in the BOINC Manager with no luck ...

I can not connect either. I was getting SQL errors on the web site when trying to access the message board, but now I am getting an empty home page. All of my clients have automagically detached the project because of missing tags in the schedular xml reply.

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...don

Geezzee...I hope all mine don't detach from the Project, I probably have 150 WU's ready to Report right now. I'll probably be all right all long as I have WU's to do. If I start to run out I'll Suspend the Project until I can connect again ...

This morning when I woke up, I noticed that the server was running slower than molassass in January. So, I wanted to bring up task manager to see if I could see why it was running so slow.... this took entirely too long as I was also trying to get ready for work. So, the next step was to try to go through the shutdown procedure and try to get it to shut down properly. while it was working on this I finished getting ready. Needless to say, it still hadn't shut down when I was ready to walk out of the door 10 minutes late. So, I just powered down and powered back up and left.

I had about an hour drive to work this morning. I was 5 minutes from work when I got pulled over for speeding. 70MPH in a 55MPH zone. OUCH. That's gonna cost me. :(

Anyway... I work 24 hour shifts and I am 14 hours into my shift. I have an hour drive home and some business I have to attend to before I get home. So, figure 16 hours from now (if my math is correct it is 0300UTC).

I'm sorry for the inconvience. I only work 9 or 10 days a month and it seems like problems crop up on those days.

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Ok Jim, I'm just Processing away with the Message WU's I have now & will let them run their course until I run out if the Servers not back up by then. Sorry about the ticket, I know they hurt the pocket book as I've had more than my share in my lifetime ...

I had to Suspend Network Access on all my PC's because so many files were trying to be Uploaded that the BOINC Manager was locking up on all of them, seems to be ok now that I Disabled Net Access ... :)

Home page access is restored, but when trying to access message boards -->

Unable to connect to database - please try again later Error: 2003Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)

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...don

From client:

25/Aug/05 10:10:21|http://message.boincstats.com/|Sending scheduler request to http://message.boincstats.com/cgi/
25/Aug/05 10:10:21|http://message.boincstats.com/|Requesting 86400 seconds of work, returning 0 results
25/Aug/05 10:10:37|http://message.boincstats.com/|Scheduler request to http://message.boincstats.com/cgi/ succeeded
25/Aug/05 10:10:37|http://message.boincstats.com/|No start tag in scheduler reply
25/Aug/05 10:10:37|http://message.boincstats.com/|Resetting project
25/Aug/05 10:10:37||request_reschedule_cpus: exit_tasks
25/Aug/05 10:10:37|http://message.boincstats.com/|Detaching from project
25/Aug/05 10:10:53||Suspending network activity - user request


It does appear that the hard coded ip address has been corrected/changed.

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...don

It appears that they are just whacked out right now. I get different errors depending on how I try to get to the Site.

The project scheduler is inaccessible - 04:02:46 - 25-08-05

You may not be able to upload results and download new work.
BOINC Server Status will retry this scheduler on the next update.
Possible causes:
Project down
Internet connection down
Scheduler too busy


Download folder 'http://message.boincstats.com/download/' is accessible!
Upload folder is inaccessible!
Cannot retrieve status page

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It appears that they are just whacked out right now. I get different errors depending on how I try to get to the Site.

The project scheduler is inaccessible - 04:02:46 - 25-08-05

You may not be able to upload results and download new work.
BOINC Server Status will retry this scheduler on the next update.
Possible causes:
Project down
Internet connection down
Scheduler too busy


Download folder 'http://message.boincstats.com/download/' is accessible!
Upload folder is inaccessible!
Cannot retrieve status page

Back to main

This page was last modified on 25/08/2005 at 16:02

I am currently running disk utilities to make sure the disk is still ok. It should be back up shortly.

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I am currently running disk utilities to make sure the disk is still ok. It should be back up shortly.

*crosses fingers*
Thanks Jim =)

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I am currently running disk utilities to make sure the disk is still ok. It should be back up shortly.

Jim,

Have you thought about running pcAnywhereon it?

From what I've read in the past you should be able to pretty much do anything with it, from anywhere...

Just a thought ;-)

James :-)

I am currently running disk utilities to make sure the disk is still ok. It should be back up shortly.

Jim,

Have you thought about running pcAnywhereon it?

From what I've read in the past you should be able to pretty much do anything with it, from anywhere...

Just a thought ;-)

James :-)

Actually, Message at home is Rytis's project. He had been doing some remote work on it. I didn't expect to have to do any work so I didn't bother about installing the client of the software he was using. However, I don't think I would have been able to log in anyway... something is seriously wrong right now. I am trying to copy files off that machine and onto one of my newer files over a 100MBit Ethernet lan. I am running a peak of 2.5% to 5% network usage and even that isn't very steady.

once I get all my files off this HDD I'll start doing some more intensive troubleshooting. Nothing like backing up at the last minute. (Oh, Rytis does have backups of the db so even if it does crash totally you guys won't be out much at all. He'd been taking daily back-ups, but I don't know when he did that last.

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Thanks for the update Jim. Hopefully it's nothing major & everything will work out ok.

I'm not worried about connecting any time soon. I'm finishing up this CPDN unit before I crunch anything else. It keeps throwing my system into EDF as soon as I download wu's from any project.

James :-)

Ok... i'm not sure what is going on, but my network finally timed out, so I restarted the server into safe mode. It is running like it should now. (Win2000Pro). Any suggestions? HDD? HDD controller? mobo? other? I know... I put some new memory in after we got started. I guess I could run Memtest86+ on that to make sure it is ok. Any other suggetions?

Jim

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... something is seriously wrong right now.

Well, as was expressed below: *crosses fingers*. Thanks for the update!

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...don

Ok... i'm not sure what is going on, but my network finally timed out, so I restarted the server into safe mode. It is running like it should now. (Win2000Pro). Any suggestions? HDD? HDD controller? mobo? other? I know... I put some new memory in after we got started. I guess I could run Memtest86+ on that to make sure it is ok. Any other suggetions?

Jim

There was a recent security update about a Windows network driver that had an expired certificate and was bringing servers to a halt when rebooted after the expiration date. Solution was to upgrade driver. Will look for details.

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...don

UPS vendor American Power Conversion is announcing that customers with older software must update their software to avoid server downtime.
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“Rebooting your server or restarting this service resulted in a two-plus hour restart followed by another two-hour wait to log in. My back-up jobs failed because the affected server would not respond to the backup server resulting in a "hung" job.”

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...don