I am having trouble attaching SETI@HOME project. I have obtained boinc5.49seti5.13sparc64sol8.tar.bz2 and have extracted it on a Sun dual processor Ultra 60 running solaris 2.9.
I then proceeded to execute the executable script with the following command: boinc_5.4.9_ultrasparcVIS64-sun-solaris2.8 -attach_project http://setiathome.berkeley.edu <my account key>.

The following error(s) occured:

2007-01-22 15:27:06 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending scheduler request
to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2007-01-22 15:27:06 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Reason: Requested by user
2007-01-22 15:27:06 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 17280 seconds o
f new work
2007-01-22 15:27:08 [---] Project communication failed: attempting access to ref
erence site
2007-01-22 15:27:09 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request failed:
couldn't connect to server
2007-01-22 15:27:09 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request failed:
couldn't connect to server
2007-01-22 15:27:09 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Deferring scheduler reques
ts for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
2007-01-22 15:27:12 [---] Access to reference site succeeded - project servers m
ay be temporarily down.
2007-01-22 15:28:10 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2007-01-22 15:28:10 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Reason: Requested by user
2007-01-22 15:28:10 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
2007-01-22 15:30:12 [---] Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2007-01-22 15:30:12 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request failed: a timeout was reached
2007-01-22 15:30:12 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request failed: a timeout was reached
2007-01-22 15:30:12 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Deferring scheduler requests for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
2007-01-22 15:30:16 [---] Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
2007-01-22 15:31:13 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2007-01-22 15:31:13 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Reason: Requested by user
2007-01-22 15:31:13 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
2007-01-22 15:31:18 [---] Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2007-01-22 15:31:19 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request failed: couldn't connect to server
2007-01-22 15:31:19 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request failed: couldn't connect to server
2007-01-22 15:31:19 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Deferring scheduler requests for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
2007-01-22 15:31:22 [---] Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
2007-01-22 15:32:19 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2007-01-22 15:32:19 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Reason: Requested by user
2007-01-22 15:32:19 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
2007-01-22 15:34:22 [---] Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2007-01-22 15:34:22 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request failed: a timeout was reached
2007-01-22 15:34:22 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request failed: a timeout was reached
2007-01-22 15:34:22 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Deferring scheduler requests for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
2007-01-22 15:34:37 [---] Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
2007-01-22 15:35:22 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2007-01-22 15:35:22 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Reason: Requested by user
2007-01-22 15:35:22 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
2007-01-22 15:35:28 [---] Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2007-01-22 15:35:28 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request failed: couldn't connect to server
2007-01-22 15:35:28 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request failed: couldn't connect to server
2007-01-22 15:35:28 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Deferring scheduler requests for 2 minutes and 18 seconds
2007-01-22 15:35:30 [---] Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
2007-01-22 15:37:48 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2007-01-22 15:37:48 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Reason: Requested by user
2007-01-22 15:37:48 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
2007-01-22 15:39:50 [---] Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2007-01-22 15:39:50 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request failed: a timeout was reached
2007-01-22 15:39:50 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request failed: a timeout was reached
2007-01-22 15:39:50 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Deferring scheduler requests for 1 minutes and 11 seconds
2007-01-22 15:39:54 [---] Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
2007-01-22 15:41:03 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2007-01-22 15:41:03 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Reason: Requested by user
2007-01-22 15:41:03 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
2007-01-22 15:41:08 [---] Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2007-01-22 15:41:09 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request failed: couldn't connect to server
2007-01-22 15:41:09 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request failed: couldn't connect to server
2007-01-22 15:41:09 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Deferring scheduler requests for 12 minutes and 22 seconds
2007-01-22 15:41:12 [---] Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
2007-01-22 15:53:32 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2007-01-22 15:53:32 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Reason: Requested by user
2007-01-22 15:53:32 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
2007-01-22 15:53:36 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request succeeded
2007-01-22 15:53:36 [SETI@home] Message from server: platform 'sparc64-sun-solaris' not found
2007-01-22 15:53:36 [SETI@home] Successfully attached to SETI@home

previously before the above errors I received this:

2007-01-22 15:26:00 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] URL: http://setiathome.ber
keley.edu/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: ; project prefs: default
2007-01-22 15:26:00 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2007-01-22 15:26:00 [---] Local control only allowed
2007-01-22 15:26:00 [---] Listening on port 31416
2007-01-22 15:26:00 [---] Platform changed from to sparc64-sun-solaris - resett
ing projects

Are there any suggestions to these errors? I setup my laptop yesterday for SETI@HOME and it is up and running.

Thank you.

the servers are down at the moment, I'm having the exact same problem just now. Try again tomorrow!

Regards,

Iain

2007-01-22 15:53:32 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Reason: Requested by user
2007-01-22 15:53:32 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 17280 seconds of new work
2007-01-22 15:53:36 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request succeeded
2007-01-22 15:53:36 [SETI@home] Message from server: platform 'sparc64-sun-solaris' not found
2007-01-22 15:53:36 [SETI@home] Successfully attached to SETI@

The attachment worked, but there is a problem with the BOINC client 5.4.9 which deletes the contents in the projects directory.
Please look at this posting, about a fix for this problem :
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=36166&nowrap=true#480960

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