Since the last Knoppix crash and reinstall :( BOINC seems quite happy to download new SETI work units as it finishes the previous one - but it can't upload the results.

I've now got three results sitting waiting: the message in BOINC manager (WHY can't we copy-and-paste from there?) says:
SETI@home Thu Dec 8 21:47:44 2005 Started upload of 30oc03ab.23657.4097.379824.207_2_0
Thu Dec 8 21:49:44 2005 Attempting to communicate with [setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu] timed out
SETI@home Thu Dec 8 21:47:44 2005 Temporarily failed upload of 30oc03ab.23657.4097.379824.207_2_0: timeout
SETI@home Thu Dec 8 21:47:44 2005 Backing off 2 hours, 34 minutes, and 1 seconds on upload of file 30oc03ab.23657.4097.379824.207_2_0 ...

There are lots more like that - it produces another one every time I tell it to update.


HOWEVER ... the Einstein work units down- and upload with no problem.

It could be a file permissions problem (that's what drove me to the reinstall) - but aren't SETI and Einstein in the same file?

It's an oldish Pentium Coppermine, running Knoppix-on-HD (so close to being Debian) 2.6.12.

I suppose I don't mind: if it can't talk to SETI, I can put it on 100% Einstein, but it niggles that it can download yet not upload work.

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Berkeley has some problems with the servers.
There is a message on the main site :
December 8, 2005
We are experiencing heavy traffic on our data server. This is currently preventing some result uploads, but is getting better over time. More in Technical News.

Some more informations are in the technical news : http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/tech_news.php

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Thanks - that sounds plausible, but my other machines aren't having the same problem. the laptop uploaded one today, and the main desktop uploaded three (all still waiting for credit).

I'll wait and see for a while - but the Linux box has been trying to upload stuff for several days,

I don't know if it's significant, but if I click on the "Web Site" links on the Linux box's "Projects" screen, I don't get a browser window taking me there. Something flashes on the screen too fast for me to see what it is, and disappears again.

Both those problems are new since the "crash and fix".

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Thanks - that sounds plausible, but my other machines aren't having the same problem. the laptop uploaded one today, and the main desktop uploaded three (all still waiting for credit).

Uploads are sometimes posible. So it is not clear, if the problem is on your installation or on the server side.

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I don't know if it's significant, but if I click on the "Web Site" links on the Linux box's "Projects" screen, I don't get a browser window taking me there. Something flashes on the screen too fast for me to see what it is, and disappears again.

Both those problems are new since the "crash and fix".

Maybe your browser is not set up properly? ($BROWSER variable)

I added the browser declaration to my BOINC/run_manager script:

export BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox && cd "/home/ken/BOINC" && exec ./boincmgr $@

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