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Message 1163073 - Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 2:18:40 UTC

My old computer crashed / Broke , I can't get the boinc / seti info to abort.
So how do I get the computer removed from seti ?
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Message 1163081 - Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 2:33:11 UTC

Workunits will time out once they go over there deadline & be resent to another host.
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Message 1163082 - Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 2:37:40 UTC - in response to Message 1163081.  

Workunits will time out once they go over there deadline & be resent to another host.



Is there no way to get that computer removed ?


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Message 1163084 - Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 2:41:29 UTC

Not unless there is some devine intervention.
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Message 1163088 - Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 2:45:19 UTC - in response to Message 1163082.  

Workunits will time out once they go over there deadline & be resent to another host.



Is there no way to get that computer removed ?


Get your computer removed from where? Your Seti account page?
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Message 1163096 - Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 3:10:00 UTC - in response to Message 1163084.  

Not unless there is some devine intervention.


well then , I am sorry I couldn't get the WU's aborted... I tried !
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Message 1163100 - Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 3:21:44 UTC - in response to Message 1163096.  
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Not unless there is some devine intervention.


well then , I am sorry I couldn't get the WU's aborted... I tried !

Don't sweat it, buddy. Happens often enough. Not much you can do when the hardware fails completely. You won't be able to remove the computer from your account until all work has been validated by somebody and is deleted by the servers from that computer's record...could take a looooooooong time.

Better luck with the next rig.
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Message 1163102 - Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 3:25:42 UTC - in response to Message 1163088.  

Workunits will time out once they go over there deadline & be resent to another host.



Is there no way to get that computer removed ?


Get your computer removed from where? Your Seti account page?


Yes , I had hoped that removing the computer would have aborted the tasks so they could be resent , and not just sit there till they timed out...
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Message 1163112 - Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 4:27:41 UTC
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There must have been some divine intervention...

I managed to get the harddrive temporarily hooked up to another computer , and finally managed to get all the different drivers and stuff installed , am trying to get the wu's done now... I only have 2 more days to finish before my copy of xp runs out , since i moved it to a different computer... sigh !
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Message 1163179 - Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 12:33:50 UTC - in response to Message 1163112.  

There must have been some divine intervention...

I managed to get the harddrive temporarily hooked up to another computer , and finally managed to get all the different drivers and stuff installed , am trying to get the wu's done now... I only have 2 more days to finish before my copy of xp runs out , since i moved it to a different computer... sigh !

If you are going to keep that installation on that machine you can do a reactivation on it probably, but to reset the activation time to 30 days you can use the rundll32.exe syssetup,SetupOobeBnk command. So you have time to figure out what you will do.
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Message 1163413 - Posted: 18 Oct 2011, 8:40:56 UTC - in response to Message 1163073.  
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My old computer crashed / Broke , I can't get the boinc / seti info to abort.
So how do I get the computer removed from seti ?


It happens to my FreeBSD machine too.
It was ok when I run boinc under root account.
But yesterday i tried create a boinc login account and run boinc under boinc account. Don't know why this morning after shutdown and login again everything not working. Shutdown and re-login as root again only to find out that the whole boinc directory gone! missing! (there were 6 wu inside the projects folder!)
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Message 1163626 - Posted: 19 Oct 2011, 6:57:27 UTC

I am gradually replacing all the FreeBSD 8 os to Solaris 10 and 11 express.
On solaris, boinc can run under normal user account.

But the only problem is that i can't turn off the laptop LCD screen when the laptop is crunching wu under Solaris 11 express.

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