Hi Gurus --

Can someone please help me? I'm an old SETI@Home classic user and just started getting back,
now that I have some time. I compiled BOINC and the SETI@Home source code for Solaris 10 x86
and I'm having trouble getting work to do from the servers. I scanned the forums for advice
and have the following output from the BOINC run, with HTTP messages getting logged:

26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] Starting BOINC client version 6.1.5 for i386-pc-solaris
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops, file_xfer_debug, http_debug, http_xfer_debug
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.17.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3 libssh2/0.18
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] Executing as a daemon
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] Data directory: /usr/local/lib/boinc
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] Processor: 1 i86pc amd64
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] Processor features:
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] OS: SunOS: 5.10
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] Memory: 1022.99 MB physical, 8.01 GB virtual
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] Disk: 38.85 GB total, 36.83 GB free
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] Local time is UTC -5 hours
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] General prefs: from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ (last modified 25-Nov-2007 13:14:54)
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] Host location: none
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] General prefs: using your defaults
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 511.49MB
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 920.69MB
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 0.47GB
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 21601 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
26-Dec-2007 10:51:58 [---] [http_debug] HTTP_OP::init_post(): http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
26-Dec-2007 10:52:00 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] info: About to connect() to setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu port 80 (#0)
26-Dec-2007 10:52:00 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] info: Trying 208.68.240.17...
26-Dec-2007 10:52:00 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] info: Connected to setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu (208.68.240.17) port 80 (#0)
26-Dec-2007 10:52:00 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Sent header to server: POST /sah_cgi/cgi HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: BOINC client (i386-pc-solaris 6.1.5)
Host: setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: -4294962579

26-Dec-2007 10:52:01 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
26-Dec-2007 10:52:01 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Received header from server: Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:52:00 GMT
26-Dec-2007 10:52:01 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Received header from server: Server: Apache/2.2.6 (Fedora)
26-Dec-2007 10:52:01 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Received header from server: Connection: close
26-Dec-2007 10:52:01 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Received header from server: Transfer-Encoding: chunked
26-Dec-2007 10:52:01 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Type: text/xml
26-Dec-2007 10:52:01 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Received header from server:
26-Dec-2007 10:52:01 [---] [http_xfer_debug] HTTP: wrote 281 bytes
26-Dec-2007 10:52:01 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] info: transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining
26-Dec-2007 10:52:01 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] info: Expire cleared
26-Dec-2007 10:52:01 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] info: Closing connection #0
26-Dec-2007 10:52:01 [---] [http_debug] HTTP error: Transferred a partial file
26-Dec-2007 10:52:03 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request failed: Transferred a partial file
26-Dec-2007 10:53:05 [---] [http_debug] HTTP_OP::init_get(): http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
26-Dec-2007 10:53:05 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Fetching scheduler list
26-Dec-2007 10:53:07 [---] [http_debug] [ID#1] info: About to connect() to setiathome.berkeley.edu port 80 (#0)
26-Dec-2007 10:53:07 [---] [http_debug] [ID#1] info: Trying 128.32.18.171...
26-Dec-2007 10:53:07 [---] [http_debug] [ID#1] info: Connected to setiathome.berkeley.edu (128.32.18.171) port 80 (#0)
26-Dec-2007 10:53:07 [---] [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: GET / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: BOINC client (i386-pc-solaris 6.1.5)
Host: setiathome.berkeley.edu
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

26-Dec-2007 10:53:07 [---] [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
26-Dec-2007 10:53:07 [---] [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:53:06 GMT
26-Dec-2007 10:53:07 [---] [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: Server: Apache/2.2.6 (Fedora)
26-Dec-2007 10:53:07 [---] [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.4
26-Dec-2007 10:53:07 [---] [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: Content-Length: 151
26-Dec-2007 10:53:07 [---] [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: Connection: close
26-Dec-2007 10:53:07 [---] [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
26-Dec-2007 10:53:07 [---] [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server:
26-Dec-2007 10:53:07 [---] [http_xfer_debug] HTTP: wrote 151 bytes
26-Dec-2007 10:53:07 [---] [http_debug] [ID#1] info: Closing connection #0
26-Dec-2007 10:53:10 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Master file download succeeded

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It seems I'm only getting a few bytes before the servers close the connection. Any ideas?

Thanks,

John

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There are some network issues in Berkeley. This cause some transfer problems like your issue or sometimes slow forums.

Btw. I have seen, that you are using a version 6 BOINC Client. The version 6 is in alpha state in the moment. I recommend you to use a stable version (5.10.x).
At the BOINC/SETI third party site (boinc.berkeley.edu/download_other.php) are BOINC clients and SETI applications for Solaris x86 available, too.

Edit: Your system is generating a lot of errors, the SETI application crashes with "process exited with code 131 (0x83) SIGILL: illegal instruction".
It looks like your application has some problems. I recommend you to try a Solaris x86 application from the BOINC third party site.

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There are some network issues in Berkeley. This cause some transfer problems like your issue or sometimes slow forums.

Btw. I have seen, that you are using a version 6 BOINC Client. The version 6 is in alpha state in the moment. I recommend you to use a stable version (5.10.x).
At the BOINC/SETI third party site (boinc.berkeley.edu/download_other.php) are BOINC clients and SETI applications for Solaris x86 available, too.

Edit: Your system is generating a lot of errors, the SETI application crashes with "process exited with code 131 (0x83) SIGILL: illegal instruction".
It looks like your application has some problems. I recommend you to try a Solaris x86 application from the BOINC third party site.

I will get a stable version in place today, thanks! I just did "svn" and this is the version it
retrieved. BTW, how can you tell that my system is generating a lot of errors? I see no core files
anywhere on my system. RTFMs are appreciated. Like I said, I'm just starting out again.

Just curious,

John

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Your system reports the state of the workunits back to the servers. Via the webpage, you can look at the state files of the different workunits.

For example with this link (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=4015390) you can see the finished tasks of your system.

By selecting one task id you can see the report from the application - the messages at the "stderr_txt" section is the point where I saw, that your SETI application is crashing : http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=692451958. - Here is in all tasks the same failure :
<core_client_version>5.4.11</core_client_version>
<message>
process exited with code 131 (0x83)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
SIGILL: illegal instruction
Exiting...

</stderr_txt>

Btw. if you seen an error/exit code different than 0, it indiates, that the SETI application has a problem.

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Your SETI application is still not working correctly. You got some invalid results :
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=697745774
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=700177412
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=703906548
I recommend you to update to a well tested version. There is a Solaris x86 SETI Enhanced Multibeam application available from smlug@seti : http://seti.smlug.net/downloads.php?lang=en

If the application produces also invalid results, I recommend you to verify your hardware with a hardware diagnotsic tool.

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