No WU for near two weeks? Solaris 8 platform.

Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : No WU for near two weeks? Solaris 8 platform.

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Mark Becker Send message Joined: 19 Feb 02 Posts: 3 Credit: 65,930 RAC: 0	Message 869241 - Posted: 25 Feb 2009, 6:12:30 UTC
	Hello - Appended below is a chunk of text output by boinc on launch. boinc downloads a pile of PNG files.. then no work units. I've reset boinc. I've detached from the project. I've reinstalled the boinc software. But no work units appear. Two weeks? Is there a verbose switch in the Solaris 8 boinc client for outputting more information as to what's going on? Prior to two weeks ago, everything was working fine. Now? Nothing. Help? (please pardon the line wrap) mbecker@wesun% ./boinc -update_prefs http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu 2009-02-25 00:47:14 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.43 for sparc-sun-solaris2.7 2009-02-25 00:47:14 [---] Data directory: /void/home/mbecker/Seti/BOINC 2009-02-25 00:47:14 [SETI@home] Computer ID: 1957157; location: school; project prefs: school 2009-02-25 00:47:14 [---] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 2009-02-09 14:52:26) 2009-02-25 00:47:14 [---] General prefs: no separate prefs for school; using your defaults 2009-02-25 00:47:14 [---] Remote control not allowed; using loopback address 2009-02-25 00:47:14 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more 2009-02-25 00:47:14 [SETI@home] Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi 2009-02-25 00:47:31 [SETI@home] Scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded 2009-02-25 00:47:31 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 10 seconds 2009-02-25 00:47:31 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 10 seconds 2009-02-25 00:47:32 [SETI@home] Started download of arecibo_181.png 2009-02-25 00:47:32 [SETI@home] Started download of sah_40.png 2009-02-25 00:47:36 [SETI@home] Finished download of sah_40.png 2009-02-25 00:47:36 [SETI@home] Throughput 680 bytes/sec 2009-02-25 00:47:36 [SETI@home] Started download of sah_banner_290.png 2009-02-25 00:47:43 [SETI@home] Finished download of sah_banner_290.png 2009-02-25 00:47:43 [SETI@home] Throughput 4324 bytes/sec 2009-02-25 00:47:43 [SETI@home] Started download of sah_ss_290.png 2009-02-25 00:47:45 [SETI@home] Finished download of sah_ss_290.png 2009-02-25 00:47:45 [SETI@home] Throughput 35047 bytes/sec 2009-02-25 00:47:48 [SETI@home] Finished download of arecibo_181.png 2009-02-25 00:47:48 [SETI@home] Throughput 3420 bytes/sec About every hour there's a note in stdoutdae: Insufficient work; requesting more and no work units arrive. ?
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Ageless Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 11642 Credit: 2,010,957 RAC: 4,101	Message 869247 - Posted: 25 Feb 2009, 6:35:33 UTC - in response to Message 869241.
	Starting BOINC client version 4.43 for sparc-sun-solaris2.7 Two things on the above line: 1. It is a very old client, one that doesn't do FLOP counts and so will annoy other users and possibly yourself as it'll get in no credit once it starts getting work. It will return all work with a zero credit request and being the lowest claimer, usually getting that as well. So the best thing is to upgrade to a newer 3rd party BOINC, for example from http://www.dotsch.de/boinc/BOINC%20Clients.html (Keep scrolling down, eventually you'll hit upon the Solaris Binaries section. 2. Seti may not have a default application for this OS. You can download and install one by hand. The so called anonymous platform files. For Seti Enhanced, see http://www.dotsch.de/boinc/SETI%40home%20applications.html As far as I can see, there is no Astropulse application yet. Although it does say here that Seti has Sparc/Solaris 5.01 application, but for some reason and I suspect because of the description that your BOINC version gives, it isn't recognized as such. For example, a Windows 32bit BOINC versions starts with that message part being "windows_intelx86" which is recognized by the Seti server as being Windows/x86 ____________ Jord - BOINC FAQ Service - BOINC User Wiki Real is just a matter of perception.
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Mark Becker Send message Joined: 19 Feb 02 Posts: 3 Credit: 65,930 RAC: 0	Message 869408 - Posted: 25 Feb 2009, 19:30:57 UTC - in response to Message 869247.
	Bingo. Upgraded to 5.10.17 and that did the trick. Now crunching away.. Thanks. Mark ____________
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