Hi there,

as you can see I've got a problem with my BOINC client..
SETI@Home is my only project, I checked the marks that the work can be done while computer is in use, gave it 100% because I read less doesn't work with some machines and I can't figute out why it won't work!
I've got a Mac mini (OS 10.5.5) and an UMTS internet connection (I've also checked the box to skip image verification which was recommended for UMTS connections).
I've never received any work yet, I want to get started for the first time.

Here are the messages:

Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||Starting BOINC client version 6.2.18 for x86_64-apple-darwin
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 c-ares/1.5.1
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 2]
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||Processor features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM SSE3 MON DSCPL VMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||OS: Darwin: 9.5.0
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||Memory: 1.00 GB physical, 8.54 GB virtual
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||Disk: 74.21 GB total, 8.30 GB free
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||Local time is UTC +1 hours
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||No coprocessors
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008|SETI@home|URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 4677484; location: (none); project prefs: default
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 27-Nov-2008 21:50:03)
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||Host location: none
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||General prefs: using your defaults
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||Reading preferences override file
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 512.00MB
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 921.60MB
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||Preferences limit disk usage to 4.66GB
Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 60480 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
Fri Nov 28 10:01:56 2008|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 2 new tasks
Fri Nov 28 10:01:58 2008|SETI@home|Started download of seti_603.jpg
Fri Nov 28 10:01:58 2008|SETI@home|Started download of 04no08af.18963.13978.5.8.80
Fri Nov 28 10:02:42 2008|SETI@home|Finished download of seti_603.jpg
Fri Nov 28 10:02:42 2008|SETI@home|Started download of 04no08af.18963.13978.5.8.75
Fri Nov 28 10:02:42 2008|SETI@home|[error] Checksum or signature error for seti_603.jpg
Fri Nov 28 10:03:47 2008|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 60480 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
Fri Nov 28 10:04:31 2008||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
Fri Nov 28 10:04:31 2008|SETI@home|Temporarily failed download of 04no08af.18963.13978.5.8.80: HTTP error
Fri Nov 28 10:04:31 2008|SETI@home|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of 04no08af.18963.13978.5.8.80
Fri Nov 28 10:04:57 2008|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
Fri Nov 28 10:04:57 2008|SETI@home|Message from server: No work sent
Fri Nov 28 10:04:57 2008|SETI@home|Message from server: (reached daily quota of 2 results)
Fri Nov 28 10:05:10 2008|SETI@home|Temporarily failed download of 04no08af.18963.13978.5.8.75: HTTP error
Fri Nov 28 10:05:10 2008|SETI@home|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of 04no08af.18963.13978.5.8.75
Fri Nov 28 10:05:13 2008||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
Fri Nov 28 10:05:31 2008|SETI@home|Started download of 04no08af.18963.13978.5.8.80
Fri Nov 28 10:05:49 2008|SETI@home|Finished download of 04no08af.18963.13978.5.8.80
Fri Nov 28 10:06:10 2008|SETI@home|Started download of 04no08af.18963.13978.5.8.75
Fri Nov 28 10:06:15 2008|SETI@home|Finished download of 04no08af.18963.13978.5.8.75
Fri Nov 28 10:08:16 2008||Running CPU benchmarks
Fri Nov 28 10:08:16 2008||Suspending computation - running CPU benchmarks
Fri Nov 28 10:08:48 2008||Benchmark results:
Fri Nov 28 10:08:48 2008|| Number of CPUs: 2
Fri Nov 28 10:08:48 2008|| 1962 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
Fri Nov 28 10:08:48 2008|| 7132 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
Fri Nov 28 10:08:49 2008||Resuming computation
Fri Nov 28 10:09:08 2008|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 60480 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
Fri Nov 28 10:09:33 2008|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
Fri Nov 28 10:09:33 2008|SETI@home|Message from server: No work sent
Fri Nov 28 10:09:33 2008|SETI@home|Message from server: (reached daily quota of 2 results)
Fri Nov 28 10:09:46 2008||General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 27-Nov-2008 21:50:03)
Fri Nov 28 10:09:46 2008||Host location: none
Fri Nov 28 10:09:46 2008||General prefs: using your defaults
Fri Nov 28 10:09:46 2008||Reading preferences override file
Fri Nov 28 10:09:46 2008||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 512.00MB
Fri Nov 28 10:09:46 2008||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 921.60MB
Fri Nov 28 10:09:46 2008||Preferences limit disk usage to 4.66GB
Fri Nov 28 10:14:07 2008||General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 27-Nov-2008 21:50:03)
Fri Nov 28 10:14:07 2008||Host location: none
Fri Nov 28 10:14:07 2008||General prefs: using your defaults
Fri Nov 28 10:14:07 2008||Reading preferences override file
Fri Nov 28 10:14:07 2008||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 512.00MB
Fri Nov 28 10:14:07 2008||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 921.60MB
Fri Nov 28 10:14:07 2008||Preferences limit disk usage to 4.66GB
Fri Nov 28 10:15:16 2008||General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 27-Nov-2008 21:50:03)
Fri Nov 28 10:15:16 2008||Host location: none
Fri Nov 28 10:15:16 2008||General prefs: using your defaults
Fri Nov 28 10:15:16 2008||Reading preferences override file
Fri Nov 28 10:15:16 2008||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 512.00MB
Fri Nov 28 10:15:16 2008||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 921.60MB
Fri Nov 28 10:15:16 2008||Preferences limit disk usage to 4.66GB
Fri Nov 28 10:15:29 2008|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 60480 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
Fri Nov 28 10:15:44 2008|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
Fri Nov 28 10:15:44 2008|SETI@home|Message from server: No work sent
Fri Nov 28 10:15:44 2008|SETI@home|Message from server: (reached daily quota of 2 results)
Fri Nov 28 10:18:50 2008||General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 27-Nov-2008 21:50:03)
Fri Nov 28 10:18:50 2008||Host location: none
Fri Nov 28 10:18:50 2008||General prefs: using your defaults
Fri Nov 28 10:18:50 2008||Reading preferences override file
Fri Nov 28 10:18:50 2008||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 512.00MB
Fri Nov 28 10:18:50 2008||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 921.60MB
Fri Nov 28 10:18:50 2008||Preferences limit disk usage to 4.66GB
Fri Nov 28 10:18:59 2008|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 60480 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
Fri Nov 28 10:19:19 2008|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
Fri Nov 28 10:19:19 2008|SETI@home|Message from server: No work sent
Fri Nov 28 10:19:19 2008|SETI@home|Message from server: (reached daily quota of 2 results)

Thanks in advance,
Martin


P.S. This one:
Fri Nov 28 10:05:13 2008||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

I've got the problem for 3 days now, so I don't think the servers are down that long..

Fri Nov 28 10:01:26 2008||Reading preferences override file

You're using your local settings so you'd have to set the "skip image verification" in the Boinc Manager. If you set them on the web site haven't already set the in the Manager, you'd go to Advanced>Network Usage and look under Connect Options and place a check next to "skip image verification".

You also set your settings for Processor Usage and Disk and Memory Usage from there too so you'd want to make sure the cpu time is set in there at 100%, since you do have a multi cpu system.

It appears another option would be manually downloading seti_603.jpg and adding the file to the correct directory. You may also have to edit the client_state.xml file as well.

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I've set it already to "Skip image file verification", "computing allowed while on batteries", "while computer is in use" (online and local too). I even set the Download/Upload rate to 100K because it was set to 0 (did that because I don't know whether 0 means as much as it needs or really zero)...
At Activity I checked "Run always" and "Network activity always available".

P.S. I'm trying the .jpeg thing right now, maybe it works.

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You could try downloading seti 603 jpg and putting it in manually. Make sure to completely shut down BOINC before you download and place it in the folder. If you haven't alreday you could also have a look at this thread for info on the edit portion of the client_state.xml file.

Have you tried a project reset? Since you have no work units it can't hurt.

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Alright, I downloaded it and put it in the Library / Project / Seti folder where the other Seti images have been downloaded to but it's still not working.

Here are the new messages after resetting it:

Fri Nov 28 12:01:13 2008||Starting BOINC client version 6.2.18 for x86_64-apple-darwin
Fri Nov 28 12:01:13 2008||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
Fri Nov 28 12:01:13 2008||Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 c-ares/1.5.1
Fri Nov 28 12:01:13 2008||Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data
Fri Nov 28 12:01:14 2008||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 2]
Fri Nov 28 12:01:14 2008||Processor features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM SSE3 MON DSCPL VMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM
Fri Nov 28 12:01:14 2008||OS: Darwin: 9.5.0
Fri Nov 28 12:01:14 2008||Memory: 1.00 GB physical, 7.66 GB virtual
Fri Nov 28 12:01:14 2008||Disk: 74.21 GB total, 7.42 GB free
Fri Nov 28 12:01:14 2008||Local time is UTC +1 hours
Fri Nov 28 12:01:14 2008||No coprocessors
Fri Nov 28 12:01:14 2008|SETI@home|URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 4677484; location: (none); project prefs: default
Fri Nov 28 12:01:14 2008||General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 27-Nov-2008 21:50:03)
Fri Nov 28 12:01:14 2008||Host location: none
Fri Nov 28 12:01:14 2008||General prefs: using your defaults
Fri Nov 28 12:01:14 2008||Reading preferences override file
Fri Nov 28 12:01:14 2008||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1024.00MB
Fri Nov 28 12:01:14 2008||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1024.00MB
Fri Nov 28 12:01:14 2008||Preferences limit disk usage to 4.66GB
Fri Nov 28 12:02:37 2008||General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 27-Nov-2008 21:50:03)
Fri Nov 28 12:02:37 2008||Host location: none
Fri Nov 28 12:02:37 2008||General prefs: using your defaults
Fri Nov 28 12:02:37 2008||Reading preferences override file
Fri Nov 28 12:02:37 2008||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1024.00MB
Fri Nov 28 12:02:37 2008||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1024.00MB
Fri Nov 28 12:02:37 2008||Preferences limit disk usage to 4.66GB
Fri Nov 28 12:02:46 2008|SETI@home|Resetting project
Fri Nov 28 12:02:56 2008|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 60480 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
Fri Nov 28 12:03:16 2008|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
Fri Nov 28 12:03:16 2008|SETI@home|Message from server: No work sent
Fri Nov 28 12:03:16 2008|SETI@home|Message from server: (reached daily quota of 2 results)
Fri Nov 28 12:03:18 2008|SETI@home|Started download of arecibo_181.png
Fri Nov 28 12:03:18 2008|SETI@home|Started download of sah_40.png
Fri Nov 28 12:03:33 2008|SETI@home|Finished download of sah_40.png
Fri Nov 28 12:03:33 2008|SETI@home|Started download of sah_banner_290.png
Fri Nov 28 12:03:48 2008|SETI@home|Finished download of arecibo_181.png
Fri Nov 28 12:03:48 2008|SETI@home|Started download of sah_ss_290.png
Fri Nov 28 12:03:59 2008|SETI@home|Finished download of sah_ss_290.png
Fri Nov 28 12:04:02 2008|SETI@home|Finished download of sah_banner_290.png
Fri Nov 28 12:11:58 2008||Suspending computation - no recent user activity
Fri Nov 28 12:14:01 2008||Resuming computation

What's the thing with the daily quota?
Why the suspending when I'm not active??
The memory usage wasn't a 100% so I set it to a 100% as you can see (1024MB).
The status in the advanced view says: "Communication deferred x" x= time counter running down.

Btw, thanks for your help so far!

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What's the thing with the daily quota?
Why the suspending when I'm not active??
The memory usage wasn't a 100% so I set it to a 100% as you can see (1024MB).
The status in the advanced view says: "Communication deferred x" x= time counter running down.

Btw, thanks for your help so far!

Because of the errors you've had, Boinc is limiting the work you recieve until you're able to return valid results and so the daily quota.
The suspending while user is active is in your Boinc Manager settings under Advanced>processor usage and then under " Computing allowed you should have a check next to "while computer is in use" though you mentioned you already had that set so I'm not sure why it is suspending.

If all has gone well with the reset, you should recieve more work but it may take a few hours or more till the quota reaches it's time limit. From what you posted it appears to have downloaded the needed files now to process the tasks once you get more. If you have any files still trying to download you could post that info so we can see where we are.

The Communication deferred x" x= time is telling you the next time Boinc will try and connect but may not be when you're assigned new work, that still depends on the daily quota.

I have my memory usage set at use at most 50% when computer is in use and use at most 90% while computer is idle, though I have had the first one set at 75% and noticed no difference. I'm not sure if you're confusing the setting I mentioned earlier to set to 100% which was " use at most 100% cpu time under the processor usage tab.

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Fri Nov 28 12:11:58 2008||Suspending computation - no recent user activity
Fri Nov 28 12:14:01 2008||Resuming computation

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Why the suspending when I'm not active?

That's because of the following preference not set as shown.

Suspend work if no mouse/keyboard activity in last  --- minutes
(Needed to enter low-power mode on some computers) 
Enforced by version 5.10.14+

If there's a value greater than zero, BOINC will suspend after that time to allow hibernation mode of the computer.

As far as I know, this setting can only be made in the online preferences, so you need to force an update for it to take effect.

Gruß,
Gundolf

[edit] to mention update [/edit]

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours

Ahhhhh, Someone else had that problem not too long back and it was that very setting we got them to change, but I thought because he was using the local preferences that would over ride those global ones. It would be great if they could add that setting to the Manager so folks don't have to go to two seperate places for the settings. Maybe in one of the future versions ;) ...Thanks for the info.

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The local preferences only override the web site preferences that are available in both places. If there are preferences on the web site, but not in the local, the web site preferences will be used.

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The local preferences only override the web site preferences that are available in both places. If there are preferences on the web site, but not in the local, the web site preferences will be used.

You can always hand edit the override file. This is how the override file originally worked.

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