Computation errors on hardy

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Tim Send message Joined: 24 Dec 09 Posts: 3 Credit: 4,732 RAC: 0	Message 959302 - Posted: 29 Dec 2009, 17:05:40 UTC
	I'm running boinc 6.2.14 on Ubuntu hardy heron on an old AMD Duron box with 115mb free RAM. I'm running kernel 2.6.24-26-generic. Two SETI@Home workunits have returned "error while computing" now. Where should I be looking to debug this? Here's the computer: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5239323 Workunits are: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=1460505399 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=1461118947 I tried Googling, but not very hard; I've probably missed some forum posts. I see people having trouble with jaunty and newer kernels, but not hardy and 2.6.24. The Debian package page was not very helpful. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks, Tim
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skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 8970 Credit: 37,786,265 RAC: 42,888	Message 959307 - Posted: 29 Dec 2009, 17:23:47 UTC - in response to Message 959302.
	please feel free to read the Numbers crunching thread "panic mode one the servers" this topic is discussed there ____________ Proud member of TSWB. End terrorism by building a school
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Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3100 Credit: 344,263 RAC: 91	Message 959313 - Posted: 29 Dec 2009, 17:38:20 UTC - in response to Message 959307. Last modified: 29 Dec 2009, 17:40:39 UTC
	please feel free to read the Numbers crunching thread "panic mode one the servers" this topic is discussed there the topic discussed there is "validate errors" not "errors while computing" ;-) Gruß, Gundolf PS: the result links clickable: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=1460505399 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=1461118947 [edit]I suppose you've searched for "process got signal 11"[/edit]
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Ageless Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 11761 Credit: 2,076,279 RAC: 2,467	Message 959315 - Posted: 29 Dec 2009, 17:46:38 UTC - in response to Message 959302.
	Ah, I see you found the forums. ;-) See Process got signal 11 for some information on what could be happening on your system. ____________ Jord - BOINC FAQ Service - BOINC User Wiki Real is just a matter of perception.
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Tim Send message Joined: 24 Dec 09 Posts: 3 Credit: 4,732 RAC: 0	Message 959350 - Posted: 29 Dec 2009, 20:22:41 UTC - in response to Message 959315.
	Thanks everyone. skildude, those threads seem to be talking about server-side problems, which I'm pretty sure is not what's happening -- the error appears to be located with the boinc client or with my hardware. Am I missing something? I hadn't seen the sig11 advice, Gundolf; thanks for the link, Jord. I loaded up memtest86 and it's run seven passes over the last couple hours without incident. I'll leave it on overnight and try upgrading the boinc client if that doesn't flag any problems... though would that make a difference? All of the processing is done by the SETI component, which should have automatically retrieved the most recent version, right? Guess I'll take a closer look at the issues people were reporting with jaunty; maybe something got backported into the hardy security updates or something. Cheers, tim
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Ageless Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 11761 Credit: 2,076,279 RAC: 2,467	Message 959378 - Posted: 29 Dec 2009, 21:54:05 UTC - in response to Message 959350.
	Just to make sure, this is a 32bit version of Linux you are using, right? ____________ Jord - BOINC FAQ Service - BOINC User Wiki Real is just a matter of perception.
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Tim Send message Joined: 24 Dec 09 Posts: 3 Credit: 4,732 RAC: 0	Message 959605 - Posted: 30 Dec 2009, 21:29:30 UTC - in response to Message 959378.
	Heh, goodness, yes. It's an ooooold processor.
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Dotsch Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 834,992 RAC: 7	Message 959728 - Posted: 31 Dec 2009, 9:18:58 UTC
	I have seen, that you are using the old SETI 5.12 binaries from the Ubuntu repositories. Eventualy it helps to reset the SETI project within the BOINC manager, and use the offical SETI 5.28 binaries.
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Ageless Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 11761 Credit: 2,076,279 RAC: 2,467	Message 959738 - Posted: 31 Dec 2009, 10:22:32 UTC - in response to Message 959728.
	To do so correctly, Tim will have to exit BOINC, then remove the app_info.xml file in his \BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\ directory, followed by a restart of BOINC and then resetting the project. Else his BOINC will only go complain it cannot find the 5.12 application and try to download it (fruitlessly) from Seti. ____________ Jord - BOINC FAQ Service - BOINC User Wiki Real is just a matter of perception.
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