In theory, even after you've reached the 100 quota message, you sould be able to get more later in the day after your earlier reported tasks have validated - but with no work available, and no tapes being split, we'll have to wait several hours to test that out properly.

With regard to the "Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of SETI@home Enhanced" message: I have a suspicion that this may be related to the operating system in use. I'm not getting that message (and I was getting work, on hosts with an app_info.xml, until it ran out). Could those who are getting this message post their OS, please? (platform and bit count only, I think - XP/Vista/7 shouldn't make any difference)

I am using Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.

Steve

64-bit app_infos have given us trouble in the past. Do you have a <platform> or <alt_platform> tag in your app_info?

[And before anyone asks - don't change anything yet! These <platform> tags were the cause of people losing entire caches when optimising in the past. Let the errors and work shortages run your caches down to empty before you start experimenting]

64-bit app_infos have given us trouble in the past. Do you have a <platform> or <alt_platform> tag in your app_info?

[And before anyone asks - don't change anything yet! These <platform> tags were the cause of people losing entire caches when optimising in the past. Let the errors and work shortages run your caches down to empty before you start experimenting]

Unfortunately I can't answer that until I get home from work 9 or 10 hours from now. I run a 6 day cache. If I go into my preferences from here, and select no work for the CPU, then it should start to drain. It is running the SSSE3 app.
I just thought of something. Unless it has been altered by the system, what I am using for an app_info file can be downloaded from Todd's files. I forgot which thread it was in, but it was stored on Rapidshare. I will poke around and post a link when I find it.

Steve

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I think this is the link I used for Todd's files.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=59666&nowrap=true#996735

Steve

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With regard to the "Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of SETI@home Enhanced" message: I have a suspicion that this may be related to the operating system in use. I'm not getting that message (and I was getting work, on hosts with an app_info.xml, until it ran out). Could those who are getting this message post their OS, please? (platform and bit count only, I think - XP/Vista/7 shouldn't make any difference)

I'm getting this message on two of my Linux 64 pc's. One is running CPU only, the other one is GPU only. A third Linux 64 pc (GPU+CPU) does not get this message.

On Vista64 and XP32 I only get the "Invalid app version description" message.

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In theory, even after you've reached the 100 quota message, you sould be able to get more later in the day after your earlier reported tasks have validated - but with no work available, and no tapes being split, we'll have to wait several hours to test that out properly.

With regard to the "Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of SETI@home Enhanced" message: I have a suspicion that this may be related to the operating system in use. I'm not getting that message (and I was getting work, on hosts with an app_info.xml, until it ran out). Could those who are getting this message post their OS, please? (platform and bit count only, I think - XP/Vista/7 shouldn't make any difference)

It sounds like the server is expecting a 32bit app which to It is usable and yet It sees a 64bit app(and OS XP x64), and says app unusable as a result.

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In theory, even after you've reached the 100 quota message, you sould be able to get more later in the day after your earlier reported tasks have validated - but with no work available, and no tapes being split, we'll have to wait several hours to test that out properly.

With regard to the "Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of SETI@home Enhanced" message: I have a suspicion that this may be related to the operating system in use. I'm not getting that message (and I was getting work, on hosts with an app_info.xml, until it ran out). Could those who are getting this message post their OS, please? (platform and bit count only, I think - XP/Vista/7 shouldn't make any difference)

I am using Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.

Steve

64-bit app_infos have given us trouble in the past. Do you have a <platform> or <alt_platform> tag in your app_info?

[And before anyone asks - don't change anything yet! These <platform> tags were the cause of people losing entire caches when optimising in the past. Let the errors and work shortages run your caches down to empty before you start experimenting]

Nope, Not here, No wonder I've not lost anything, Besides a marble or two maybe. ;)

I too use a 64bit OS - XP Pro x64 sp2.

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I got the full monty this time
10/06/2010 23:15:12 SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
10/06/2010 23:15:12 SETI@home Message from server: Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of SETI@home Enhanced.
10/06/2010 23:15:12 SETI@home Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your preferences on the web site.
10/06/2010 23:15:12 SETI@home Message from server: (reached daily quota of 100 tasks)


Maybe Bruno is just sick of sending out the "no jobs available" error messages and having a little fun sending out random messages from his library to ease the boredom.

The Bad News.
Like others here I am unable to download any CUDA work. For the past 24 hours, before the splitters ran out of work, on 4 Non-Fermi boxes, I was getting CPU units in dribs and drabs but none for the GPU's. Every call for GPU units resulted in an error message. (XP_32, BOINC 6.10.56, CUDA V6.09)

Brodo

Could those who are getting this message post their OS, please? (platform and bit count only, I think - XP/Vista/7 shouldn't make any difference)

Both rigs with the messages are Windows 64 bit.

Looks like Lunatics puts platform entries for both x86 and x86_64 in each of the <app version> sections of their app_info.

Windows XP, 32 bit

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Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....

Slightly off-topic but somewhat related the "Not in DB" application type in my tasks is gone now, its Anonymous platform - CPU or Nvidia GPU again. Seems whatever was borked is now fixed.

Slightly off-topic but somewhat related the "Not in DB" application type in my tasks is gone now, its Anonymous platform - CPU or Nvidia GPU again. Seems whatever was borked is now fixed.

Except for my host 4292666, currently not running anonymous platform, I see one task number and one workunit number - then the rest is blank.

They're playing whack-a-mole with the bugs again - squash one, another pops up.

Slightly off-topic but somewhat related the "Not in DB" application type in my tasks is gone now, its Anonymous platform - CPU or Nvidia GPU again. Seems whatever was borked is now fixed.

Except for my host 4292666, currently not running anonymous platform, I see one task number and one workunit number - then the rest is blank.

They're playing whack-a-mole with the bugs again - squash one, another pops up.

I was about to see that. :) I have about half my tasks cut off too, i guess it's one of those things like you said. Squash one, and another one pops up. It'll all get sorted soon though i am sure. :)

For some of you, the Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of SETI@home Enhanced. might be coming from an error I notice in a copy of Todd Hebert's app_info.xml. These lines:

        <file_ref>setiathome_6.09_windows_intelx86__cuda_fermi.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>

ought to be:

        <file_ref>
            <file_name>setiathome_6.09_windows_intelx86__cuda_fermi.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>

                                                                Joe

For some of you, the Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of SETI@home Enhanced. might be coming from an error I notice in a copy of Todd Hebert's app_info.xml. These lines:

        <file_ref>setiathome_6.09_windows_intelx86__cuda_fermi.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>

ought to be:

        <file_ref>
            <file_name>setiathome_6.09_windows_intelx86__cuda_fermi.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>

                                                                Joe

Thank you! I can't wait to get home and take a look! Excellent information!

Steve

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For some of you, the Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of SETI@home Enhanced. might be coming from an error I notice in a copy of Todd Hebert's app_info.xml. These lines:

        <file_ref>setiathome_6.09_windows_intelx86__cuda_fermi.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>

ought to be:

        <file_ref>
            <file_name>setiathome_6.09_windows_intelx86__cuda_fermi.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>

                                                                Joe

No Fermi here Joe, That's a few years away for Me.

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Even I'm getting one of these 100 tasks messages, Plus one other saying this:


6/9/2010 9:24:54 PM SETI@home Message from server: Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of SETI@home Enhanced.

But I haven't seen that or any message in red in almost half an hour(9:24pm PDT).

I too am getting this message in addition to the one with the 100 WU cap. My CPU is crunching away, but I can't get anything for my empty GPU's.

Steve

This is weird Steve, i've got over 36 GPU WU's waiting to start, i hit the limit earlier but i had a 10 day cache running and i changed it back to 3 after testing, but it's still downloaded more than 220 WU's today, and half way through it got the error 3 times, then it just went away. I'm not getting the invalid app version but i am getting "Not in DB".

Do you think yours might be related to the Fermi's?

Jarryd

...let's try that again...apologies if this shows up twice...

I have good old GTS 285s and I am suffering the same problem. Lots of WUs for the CPUs and none for the GPUs. I am thinking we're in some kind of a drought generally.

Regards,

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For some of you, the Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of SETI@home Enhanced. might be coming from an error I notice in a copy of Todd Hebert's app_info.xml. Joe[/pre]

Checked my three Linux64 pc's and all three had this part of the file correct. Still puzzling why only two of these pc's have this message.

I will try to compare the app_info.xml files.

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I'm hoping this is related to everything else happening lately,

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=621077179

The data for my machine (4490076) is there, but the wingperson' is not all there, even though credit has been granted.

Martin

For some of you, the Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of SETI@home Enhanced. might be coming from an error I notice in a copy of Todd Hebert's app_info.xml....

Like Joe, I've had a look at Todd's app_info.xml

We normally discourage people from opening these files with anything except Notepad: and certainly never edit them with anything except a plain-text editor. But if you open Todd's with Internet Explorer (the default on most Windows systems), you do get a warning that the file cannot be displayed: "End tag 'file_name' does not match the start tag 'file_ref'". A properly-constructed app_info.xml can be displayed in Internet Explorer, though it's not recommended.

Todd's file (like the one it was derived from) also has two copies of the section

    <app>
        <name>setiathome_enhanced</name>
    </app>

They should not be necessary, though until now they don't seem to have caused any problems. One is enough.

Now we're getting some data, I'll see what else I can glean.

For some of you, the Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of SETI@home Enhanced. might be coming from an error I notice in a copy of Todd Hebert's app_info.xml....

Like Joe, I've had a look at Todd's app_info.xml

We normally discourage people from opening these files with anything except Notepad: and certainly never edit them with anything except a plain-text editor. But if you open Todd's with Internet Explorer (the default on most Windows systems), you do get a warning that the file cannot be displayed: "End tag 'file_name' does not match the start tag 'file_ref'". A properly-constructed app_info.xml can be displayed in Internet Explorer, though it's not recommended.

Todd's file (like the one it was derived from) also has two copies of the section

    <app>
        <name>setiathome_enhanced</name>
    </app>

They should not be necessary, though until now they don't seem to have caused any problems. One is enough.

Now we're getting some data, I'll see what else I can glean.

I have what I think is two of those, Here's My app file(copied from Notepad):

<app_info>
<app>
<name>setiathome_enhanced</name>
</app>
<file_info>
<name>AK_v8_win_x64_SSSE3x.exe</name>
<executable/>
</file_info>
<app_version>
<app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
<version_num>603</version_num>
<file_ref>
<file_name>AK_v8_win_x64_SSSE3x.exe</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>
</app_version>
</app_info>

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