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Message 1650646 - Posted: 8 Mar 2015, 14:55:08 UTC

My computer seti-mm-05 is acting strangely in reporting work done, I think. I'm a bit confused here.

It's been stuck at 990 credit for over a week now but it's definitely been doing work and reporting.

For example for Task 4007635808, Workunit 1722118309 reported here:
Sun  8 Mar 13:30:49 2015 | SETI@home | Computation for task 14fe13aa.10710.8252.438086664203.12.186_1 finished
Sun  8 Mar 13:30:51 2015 | SETI@home | Started upload of 14fe13aa.10710.8252.438086664203.12.186_1_0
Sun  8 Mar 13:30:55 2015 | SETI@home | Finished upload of 14fe13aa.10710.8252.438086664203.12.186_1_0


It shows up in 'Validation pending' now, but soon will disappear from there and... nothing.

I'm not sure how to make sense of this as I don't really know if it's the back end database issues affecting things.

Can anyone see any smoking guns?
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Message 1650648 - Posted: 8 Mar 2015, 15:11:53 UTC

For the record, it was created at the same time as seti-mm-01 to 06 and therefore should have a similar credit of ±9,000.
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Message 1650653 - Posted: 8 Mar 2015, 15:30:39 UTC - in response to Message 1650648.  

For the record, it was created at the same time as seti-mm-01 to 06 and therefore should have a similar credit of ±9,000.

For the record, only you can see your host names.

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Message 1650654 - Posted: 8 Mar 2015, 15:33:55 UTC - in response to Message 1650646.  
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My computer seti-mm-05 is acting strangely in reporting work done, I think. I'm a bit confused here.

It's been stuck at 990 credit for over a week now but it's definitely been doing work and reporting.

Can anyone see any smoking guns?

Half it's work has been set as Abandoned, so it's problably been crunching Abandoned work:

Error tasks for computer 7511430

Reset the project, you'll get resent work back that hasn't already been abandoned.

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Message 1650656 - Posted: 8 Mar 2015, 15:36:45 UTC - in response to Message 1650653.  
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For the record, only you can see your host names.

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Didn't think abut that..
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Message 1650662 - Posted: 8 Mar 2015, 15:43:28 UTC - in response to Message 1650654.  


Half it's work has been set as Abandoned, so it's problably been crunching Abandoned work:

Error tasks for computer 7511430

Reset the project, you'll get resent work back that hasn't already been abandoned.

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Well that's the weird thing, I didn't abandon any work on the host but suddenly a bunch turned up as being marked abandoned.

I thought if a work unit was marked as abandoned the host would report it as being abandoned and the back end would re-assign it to someone else but that the abandoning host wouldn't then crunch it

How might I be crunching abandoned workings then? Do you think abandoning all the workunits and requesting a complete new batch would help matters?

I don't quite want to go there (or re-installing BOINC) yet until I understand what might be causing it in the first place.
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Message 1650663 - Posted: 8 Mar 2015, 15:47:52 UTC - in response to Message 1650656.  

For the record, only you can see your host names.

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Didn't think abut that..


These ones
7511424
7511431
7511446
7511432
7511472
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Message 1650664 - Posted: 8 Mar 2015, 15:48:58 UTC - in response to Message 1650662.  
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Well that's the weird thing, I didn't abandon any work on the host but suddenly a bunch turned up as being marked abandoned.

I thought if a work unit was marked as abandoned the host would report it as being abandoned and the back end would re-assign it to someone else but that the abandoning host wouldn't then crunch it

How might I be crunching abandoned workings then? Do you think abandoning all the workunits and requesting a complete new batch would help matters?

I don't quite want to go there (or re-installing BOINC) yet until I understand what might be causing it in the first place.

The server can mark work abandoned if it receives requests from the client in the wrong order, it can happen if a request is delayed getting to the scheduler, the client times out it's request,
then asks again a minute or so later, gets work, then the original request gets through, and the server abandons the work from request 2 and before.

Just Reset the project, No need to Detach/Reattach (or Remove/Add project), or Reinstall Boinc.

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Message 1650667 - Posted: 8 Mar 2015, 15:50:18 UTC - in response to Message 1650664.  

Well that's the weird thing, I didn't abandon any work on the host but suddenly a bunch turned up as being marked abandoned.

I thought if a work unit was marked as abandoned the host would report it as being abandoned and the back end would re-assign it to someone else but that the abandoning host wouldn't then crunch it

How might I be crunching abandoned workings then? Do you think abandoning all the workunits and requesting a complete new batch would help matters?

I don't quite want to go there (or re-installing BOINC) yet until I understand what might be causing it in the first place.

The server can mark work abandoned if it receives requests from the client in the wrong order.

Just Reset the project, No need to Detach/Reattach (or Remove/Add project), or Reinstall Boinc.

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Right y'are guv. Let's give it a whirl.
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Message 1650935 - Posted: 9 Mar 2015, 7:43:08 UTC

Resetting the project on the host certainly seems to have done the trick. Thanks Claggy.
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