One of the drawbacks in using a "package" is that you cannot always control how things are done. In this case, the search function is provided by the MediaWiki package and I have to live with it. The good news is that they are in progress with a new version ...

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I did it once and posted how to the post requesting it in the science forum but it's better suited for here and it's probably easier to understand here as well.

1. Suspend all projects except the project with the aborted WU in the "Projects" tab.
2. Go to the "work" tab and then manually suspend every WU for the project with the aborted WU.
3. Click on the aborted WU and then on the resume button so that it will attempt to crunch and change from "aborted" to "computational error".
4. Update the project on the "projects" tab and the WU will report and dissappear.
5. Resume all suspended WU's in the "Work" tab and all projects on the "Projects" tab.

This is because BOINC skips over an aborted WU and it will only report if it has been attempted to be crunched.

On step 2, you only need to suspend the oldest workunits of the project that has the abort work units. The project will try to compute the oldest one first and goes through all of the suspended and aborted units unit it gets one that will crunch.

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Wow, that's great!
Not exactly intuitive, but it worked.
Sounds like a potential Wiki entry for Mr. Buck.

Thanks for the help!

Hmmm, yeah, but where?

Well, for what it is worth, I added it to the work tab area and added the rest of the status values.

While searching the Wiki before posting the question here, I searched on the term "abort".

Eight pages are returned & now I see RDC's procedure listed on the 6th page of the search results.

Scanning the results, #1 and #6 appear to be the most relevant to this issue, so I would read those first:
http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/index.php?search=abort&go=Go

For some reason, the BOINC FAQ is not returned as one of the eight results, but I can find the procedure listed there by manually browsing to the page.

Thank you, Mr. Buck, for all of your contributions.

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Wow, that's great!
Not exactly intuitive, but it worked.
Sounds like a potential Wiki entry for Mr. Buck.

Thanks for the help!

Hmmm, yeah, but where?

Well, for what it is worth, I added it to the work tab area and added the rest of the status values.

While searching the Wiki before posting the question here, I searched on the term "abort".

Eight pages are returned & now I see RDC's procedure listed on the 6th page of the search results Scanning the reults, #2 and #6 appear to be the most relevant to this issue. http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/index.php?search=abort&go=Go

For some reason, the BOINC FAQ is not returned as one of the eight results, but I can find the procedure listed there by manually browsing to the page.

Thank you, Mr. Buck, for all of your contributions.

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FAQ -> Questions and Problems seems the right place.

Ok, there too ...

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Wow, that's great!
Not exactly intuitive, but it worked.
Sounds like a potential Wiki entry for Mr. Buck.

Thanks for the help!

Hmmm, yeah, but where?

FAQ -> Questions and Problems seems the right place.

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Wow, that's great!
Not exactly intuitive, but it worked.
Sounds like a potential Wiki entry for Mr. Buck.

Thanks for the help!

Hmmm, yeah, but where?

Well, for what it is worth, I added it to the work tab area and added the rest of the status values.

Wow, I feel honored that my solution was good enough to be added to the Wiki. Thanks Paul :)

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Wow, that's great!
Not exactly intuitive, but it worked.
Sounds like a potential Wiki entry for Mr. Buck.

Thanks for the help!

Hmmm, yeah, but where?

Well, for what it is worth, I added it to the work tab area and added the rest of the status values.

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Glad to help out :)

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To truly explore, one must keep an open mind...

I did it once and posted how to the post requesting it in the science forum but it's better suited for here and it's probably easier to understand here as well.

1. Suspend all projects except the project with the aborted WU in the "Projects" tab.
2. Go to the "work" tab and then manually suspend every WU for the project with the aborted WU.
3. Click on the aborted WU and then on the resume button so that it will attempt to crunch and change from "aborted" to "computational error".
4. Update the project on the "projects" tab and the WU will report and dissappear.
5. Resume all suspended WU's in the "Work" tab and all projects on the "Projects" tab.

This is because BOINC skips over an aborted WU and it will only report if it has been attempted to be crunched.

RDC

You are a star! You have just enabled me to get rid of a troublesome CPDN unit from about two months ago, cheers!

Ken P.

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I did it once and posted how to the post requesting it in the science forum but it's better suited for here and it's probably easier to understand here as well.

1. Suspend all projects except the project with the aborted WU in the "Projects" tab.
2. Go to the "work" tab and then manually suspend every WU for the project with the aborted WU.
3. Click on the aborted WU and then on the resume button so that it will attempt to crunch and change from "aborted" to "computational error".
4. Update the project on the "projects" tab and the WU will report and dissappear.
5. Resume all suspended WU's in the "Work" tab and all projects on the "Projects" tab.

This is because BOINC skips over an aborted WU and it will only report if it has been attempted to be crunched.

Wow, that's great!
Not exactly intuitive, but it worked.
Sounds like a potential Wiki entry for Mr. Buck.

Thanks for the help!

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This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied dead. The choice is yours.

I did it once and posted how to the post requesting it in the science forum but it's better suited for here and it's probably easier to understand here as well.

1. Suspend all projects except the project with the aborted WU in the "Projects" tab.
2. Go to the "work" tab and then manually suspend every WU for the project with the aborted WU.
3. Click on the aborted WU and then on the resume button so that it will attempt to crunch and change from "aborted" to "computational error".
4. Update the project on the "projects" tab and the WU will report and dissappear.
5. Resume all suspended WU's in the "Work" tab and all projects on the "Projects" tab.

This is because BOINC skips over an aborted WU and it will only report if it has been attempted to be crunched.

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Also, I should mention the work cache was set to 7 days until this morning.
I set the preferences to communicate every 0.1 days, updated the project to receive the new preferences, aborted the work units, then hit Update a few times to see if that would transfer the aborted work units to the server.
Since that time, I left the Update button alone thinking I might be interfering with the normal transfer schedule.

This all happened because I was trying to get some work units for the faster Windows PC that is out of work. With 2 PC's, one fast and one slower, and the work cache set to a high number, the fast PC always seems to run out of work & then wait for the slow PC to finish & upload all of its results before trying to get any more from the server. I figured aborting the work units would throw them back on the heap for somebody else to fill the quorum.

With the fixes put in place by Matt L. & Co., I'm trying to get back to a smaller work cache.

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have the files uploaded or are they still listed on the "transfers" tab? Are the scheduler RPCs actually getting through? What does the messages tab have to say?

No transfers waiting to go for the aborted WU's. They don't seem to be generating any transfers for the scheduler to pick up. The last message for each of the aborted ones was Unrecoverable error for work unit (Aborted by GUI).

Since that time, the one WU that was crunching has finished and the only one waiting to run has started and finished.

By the way, this is happening with the optimized client for linux but the same thing is happening with an aborted CPDN WU on a windows PC. The aborted WU's just don't tell the server they are aborted.

Hitting Update communicates successfully with the scheduler (0 units requested, 0 received).

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have the files uploaded or are they still listed on the "transfers" tab? Are the scheduler RPCs actually getting through? What does the messages tab have to say?

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Anybody know the best way to delete work units that have been aborted but won't upload to the scheduler?

They've been sitting there all day with the work cache set to connect every 0.1 days. Hitting Update a few times in the first hour didn't seem to help.

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This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied dead. The choice is yours.