Hi,

for weeks now I've had problems where I get error messages and where the same work unit keeps restarting over and over despite being completed and without being credited. I'm running the latest version of BOINC for Darwin 8.9.0 (Mac OS 10.4.9. PPC) and I have no clue how to fix this.

Help would be much appreciated

Thanks

Pierre

Here's a copy-paste of the activity messages ( Ven means Friday in french)

Ven 25 mai 19:05:11 2007||Starting BOINC client version 5.8.15 for powerpc-apple-darwin
Ven 25 mai 19:05:11 2007||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
Ven 25 mai 19:05:11 2007||Libraries: libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3
Ven 25 mai 19:05:11 2007||Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data
Ven 25 mai 19:05:11 2007||Processor: 1 Power Macintosh Power Macintosh [Power Macintosh Model PowerBook6,7] [AltiVec]
Ven 25 mai 19:05:11 2007||Memory: 1.50 GB physical, 13.70 GB virtual
Ven 25 mai 19:05:11 2007||Disk: 74.41 GB total, 13.46 GB free
Ven 25 mai 19:05:11 2007|SETI@home|URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 2866962; location: home; project prefs: default
Ven 25 mai 19:05:12 2007||General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 2006-11-18 17:47:54)
Ven 25 mai 19:05:12 2007||Host location: home
Ven 25 mai 19:05:12 2007||General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
Ven 25 mai 19:05:12 2007|SETI@home|Restarting task 18fe05aa.26345.3873.897148.3.115_2 using setiathome_enhanced version 513
Ven 25 mai 21:37:46 2007||Restarting 18fe05aa.26345.3873.897148.3.115_2 - message timeout
Ven 25 mai 21:37:47 2007||[error] Process 553 not found
Ven 25 mai 23:08:45 2007|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user
Ven 25 mai 23:08:45 2007|SETI@home|(not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks)
Ven 25 mai 23:08:50 2007|SETI@home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509]
Ven 25 mai 23:08:50 2007|SETI@home|Deferring communication for 11 sec
Ven 25 mai 23:08:50 2007|SETI@home|Reason: requested by project
Sam 26 mai 03:21:54 2007||Restarting 18fe05aa.26345.3873.897148.3.115_2 - message timeout
Sam 26 mai 03:21:55 2007||[error] Process 1603 not found
Sam 26 mai 03:26:23 2007||Restarting 18fe05aa.26345.3873.897148.3.115_2 - message timeout
Sam 26 mai 03:26:24 2007||[error] Process 4069 not found
Sam 26 mai 06:20:47 2007||Restarting 18fe05aa.26345.3873.897148.3.115_2 - message timeout
Sam 26 mai 06:20:48 2007||[error] Process 4100 not found
Sam 26 mai 08:02:51 2007||Restarting 18fe05aa.26345.3873.897148.3.115_2 - message timeout
Sam 26 mai 08:02:52 2007||[error] Process 5232 not found
Sam 26 mai 09:15:43 2007||Restarting 18fe05aa.26345.3873.897148.3.115_2 - message timeout
Sam 26 mai 09:15:44 2007||[error] Process 5903 not found
Sam 26 mai 10:50:53 2007||Restarting 18fe05aa.26345.3873.897148.3.115_2 - message timeout
Sam 26 mai 10:50:54 2007||[error] Process 6379 not found

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This could happen on Macs sometimes, that the application responds proper to the BOINC client, which generates such messages. This is not a very important message...
Do you have any other IO or CPU intensive tasks running ?

I recommend you a update to the newest BOINC client, which has a better handling for this problem.

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This could happen on Macs sometimes, that the application responds proper to the BOINC client, which generates such messages. This is not a very important message...
Do you have any other IO or CPU intensive tasks running ?

I recommend you a update to the newest BOINC client, which has a better handling for this problem.

It happens several times every day on my Mac and sometimes Boinc (I've the latest version) restarts the SETI unit from the beginning... It's calculating the same bloc since 4 days( usually one unit takes less than 24 hours on my computer)... Last night it was near to finish with it (about 93%) and now its working on the same again(7,33%) !...

I don't hav any intensive task running and Boinc is only working on SETI...
thoses days I only navigate on the net with safari...

Is there really nothing to do ?


thanks in advance...
Laurent

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