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Message 973624 - Posted: 25 Feb 2010, 2:11:54 UTC

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/forum_thread.php?id=1752
Bringing some attention to this main project/beta project hiccup from the recent outage as few people read the beta Q&A.

I'm sure someone here has the answer.
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Message 973795 - Posted: 25 Feb 2010, 16:56:00 UTC - in response to Message 973624.  

if he somehow and for some reason reattached to setibeti as seti@home the data he had would be dumped by seti beta. I dont think this is a project problem but more of a user error


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Message 973867 - Posted: 25 Feb 2010, 21:37:36 UTC - in response to Message 973795.  

if he somehow and for some reason reattached to setibeti as seti@home the data he had would be dumped by seti beta. I dont think this is a project problem but more of a user error

Don't think so. For a while staff had the Beta website re-directed to the main web site while it (both) was down. I suspect the computer attempted a connection then and got a bogus re-direct and the project renamed Beta as main. And there are several reports of this now so it isn't a single user.
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Message 973868 - Posted: 25 Feb 2010, 21:39:21 UTC - in response to Message 973867.  

if he somehow and for some reason reattached to setibeti as seti@home the data he had would be dumped by seti beta. I dont think this is a project problem but more of a user error

Don't think so. For a while staff had the Beta website re-directed to the main web site while it (both) was down. I suspect the computer attempted a connection then and got a bogus re-direct and the project renamed Beta as main. And there are several reports of this now so it isn't a single user.

That would be it. The address of the scheduler is embedded on the front page of the project page. He will have to detach BETA and re-attach.


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Message 973877 - Posted: 25 Feb 2010, 22:34:31 UTC
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No way to edit client-side data? I was bit by this too, and am not too thrilled about all the hours of crunching that would be lost if I have to reset.


Edit: until the beta scheduler is enabled it's hard to tell, but I think fixing the scheduler URL (and project name) in client_state.xml has fixed this.
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Message 973935 - Posted: 26 Feb 2010, 3:20:31 UTC - in response to Message 973877.  
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No way to edit client-side data? I was bit by this too, and am not too thrilled about all the hours of crunching that would be lost if I have to reset.


Edit: until the beta scheduler is enabled it's hard to tell, but I think fixing the scheduler URL (and project name) in client_state.xml has fixed this.

I think a hand edit of the client state file may work. In the Beta project Pappa and I may have an answer or workaround. At least I was able to report my dozen work units.
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Message 973951 - Posted: 26 Feb 2010, 5:17:23 UTC - in response to Message 973935.  

No way to edit client-side data? I was bit by this too, and am not too thrilled about all the hours of crunching that would be lost if I have to reset.


Edit: until the beta scheduler is enabled it's hard to tell, but I think fixing the scheduler URL (and project name) in client_state.xml has fixed this.

I think a hand edit of the client state file may work. In the Beta project Pappa and I may have an answer or workaround. At least I was able to report my dozen work units.

You may also have to edit the account_*.xml file, and possibly the scheduler_reply_*.xml file.


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Message 973959 - Posted: 26 Feb 2010, 5:49:50 UTC - in response to Message 973951.  

No way to edit client-side data? I was bit by this too, and am not too thrilled about all the hours of crunching that would be lost if I have to reset.


Edit: until the beta scheduler is enabled it's hard to tell, but I think fixing the scheduler URL (and project name) in client_state.xml has fixed this.

I think a hand edit of the client state file may work. In the Beta project Pappa and I may have an answer or workaround. At least I was able to report my dozen work units.

You may also have to edit the account_*.xml file, and possibly the scheduler_reply_*.xml file.

In my case the account_*.xml file was not corrupt and did not need any changes, it still held my valid Beta account key.
Isn't the scheduler_reply_*.xml file just a log and overwritten when you press update?
I do see something in the sched_request_*.xml file that looks like it points to main, not beta.
<global_preferences>
   <source_project>http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/</source_project>


In any case I reported work, they validated, and I got new work. I think that is what counts.

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Message 973961 - Posted: 26 Feb 2010, 6:17:32 UTC - in response to Message 973935.  

No way to edit client-side data? I was bit by this too, and am not too thrilled about all the hours of crunching that would be lost if I have to reset.


Edit: until the beta scheduler is enabled it's hard to tell, but I think fixing the scheduler URL (and project name) in client_state.xml has fixed this.

I think a hand edit of the client state file may work. In the Beta project Pappa and I may have an answer or workaround. At least I was able to report my dozen work units.


Yes, fixing the two lines in client_state.xml was all I had to do -- now that the scheduler is responding again all my work was reported also :-D

Thanks for mentioning that Gary, I wouldn't have tried reporting work again based on the server status page, without reading that you had reported yours.
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Message 974041 - Posted: 26 Feb 2010, 14:21:13 UTC - in response to Message 973959.  

I think a hand edit of the client state file may work. In the Beta project Pappa and I may have an answer or workaround. At least I was able to report my dozen work units.

You may also have to edit the account_*.xml file, and possibly the scheduler_reply_*.xml file.

In my case the account_*.xml file was not corrupt and did not need any changes, it still held my valid Beta account key.
Isn't the scheduler_reply_*.xml file just a log and overwritten when you press update?

And fter editing the two offending lines in client_state.xml and updating the Beta project, Beta's both sched_request_*.xml and sched_reply_*.xml files contained just valid beta URLs.
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