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Jesse Lloyd Send message Joined: 30 Jan 07 Posts: 3 Credit: 97,967 RAC: 0 |
My tasks keep resarting,it will run for awile then restart and go back to 0.0%.What's the solution? |
Jesse Lloyd Send message Joined: 30 Jan 07 Posts: 3 Credit: 97,967 RAC: 0 |
My tasks keep resarting,it will run for awile then restart and go back to 0.0%.What's the solution? Thank's for any help! |
fred.zimmer Send message Joined: 25 Nov 07 Posts: 1 Credit: 33,634 RAC: 0 |
I got the same problem. all Seti@home WUs restart all 4 to 8 minutes and return to 0.00%. Any help? ... or better run other projects? |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
I got the same problem. all Seti@home WUs restart all 4 to 8 minutes and return to 0.00%. What version of BOINC are you using? BOINC WIKI |
Iona Send message Joined: 12 Jul 07 Posts: 790 Credit: 22,438,118 RAC: 0 |
My tasks keep resarting,it will run for awile then restart and go back to 0.0%.What's the solution? I've just had the same problem. Four hours of working, with 1 hour to completion and then it stops. I'm now back to 0% from 81% and 11 hrs to run after running for 4 hrs or so!!! Being patient is one thing, but maybe I ought to do the environmentally friendly thing and just switch my PC off when I've finished using it! |
Eric Korpela Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1382 Credit: 54,506,847 RAC: 60 |
If you have this problem, please include your BOINC version and whether it is a multi-user, single-user or a service install (if running under windows). @SETIEric@qoto.org (Mastodon) |
rhan Send message Joined: 3 Sep 04 Posts: 1 Credit: 202,603 RAC: 0 |
I've got the same issue with the re-starting of Seti@home. Bonic Ver 5.10.20 XP SP2 Windows. If I start the computer in safe mode w/ networking the tasks complete. In normal boot they reach as high as 95% then reset. I'm running Vista on my other computer and have no issues. Solutions for the XP computer? tks rhan |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
I've got the same issue with the re-starting of Seti@home. Bonic Ver 5.10.20 XP SP2 Windows. Since they complete in Safe Mode, which loads a minimal amount of drivers and software, but not in regular mode, my guess would be that there's a conflict of either a driver or another piece of software on your system that is causing problems. Unfortunately, the only way to figure out which one is conflicting is to go through manually enabling/disabling startup programs to see when the problem goes away. I would suggest starting with AntiVirus or Firewall programs as they are the primary ones that have been known to cause problems with BOINC before. |
AnubisChick Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 11 Credit: 2,214,466 RAC: 24 |
I'm having the same problem and have been having it since around the 20th November. I haven't changed anything on my machine, installed new software, antivirus or otherwise. The weirdest thing is some seti WU's go through fine, the 'smaller' ones, i.e. the ones with an estimated ETA of less than 2 hours to complete, ones with a longer time period for completion goes from anything from 5% all the way to 85% and then restart, over and over again. I've been running seti for years on a variety of machines and there has never been a problem. Some help would be useful otherwise I see no point in continuing with seti if it's just going to bomb out on my machine. I'm on a WIN XP, Boinc version 5.10.20 single user install, with Norton IS 2006 running (which has been running all the time, no problem until the 20th) and I have no problem running climateprediction or WCG WU's. |
Fred W Send message Joined: 13 Jun 99 Posts: 2524 Credit: 11,954,210 RAC: 0 |
I'm having the same problem and have been having it since around the 20th November. I haven't changed anything on my machine, installed new software, antivirus or otherwise. The weirdest thing is some seti WU's go through fine, the 'smaller' ones, i.e. the ones with an estimated ETA of less than 2 hours to complete, ones with a longer time period for completion goes from anything from 5% all the way to 85% and then restart, over and over again. I've been running seti for years on a variety of machines and there has never been a problem. Some help would be useful otherwise I see no point in continuing with seti if it's just going to bomb out on my machine. Can you see anything in your Windows Event log which ties up time-wise with the restarts? F. |
ninja660 Send message Joined: 11 Mar 03 Posts: 7 Credit: 7,422 RAC: 0 |
This might be something to check out also - you aren't running out of disk or memory space for computation? I was using a system w/160Mb RAM/15Gb drive. I had set the RAM preferences to use only 50% when the computer was in use and tops of 60% when idle because I had other tasks running and I couldn't afford to have the system ABEND on me because of BOINC. The tasks would abort and then reupload the data back to the server because I ran out of memory on the PC (these were jobs that were like 40+ hours to run.) Also was on a 550 Mhz Celeron (equivalent to low end P3) - but like someone had mentioned, check the Windows System Event Logs and see if some other services are running (and maybe shut down a few that aren't needed or non-essential.) An example is the old Windows bug that caused the system to automatically shut down if you hadn't installed SP 1 or the Windows patch. |
AnubisChick Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 11 Credit: 2,214,466 RAC: 24 |
Ok just checked the event log, nothing that corresponds within 15 minutes either side of a restart, so I can't see a problem there. As far as memory goes, I have 2G/100G and plenty of room so I don't think it is that either. What's more I leave it running overnight with no interaction and therefore no extraneous memory usage from me with seti, WCG and ClimateP going and only seti restarts. |
Mike Carlson Send message Joined: 7 Aug 02 Posts: 16 Credit: 143,044 RAC: 0 |
Problem ocntinues. Have tried playing with PREFERENCES to no avail. Have RESET multiple times to no avail. Have loaded an OPTIMIZED SETI, RESET, SHUTDOWN & REBOOTED and here's the latest message stream... 12/8/2007 1:01:56 PM||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.28 for windows_intelx86 12/8/2007 1:01:57 PM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 12/8/2007 1:01:57 PM||Libraries: libcurl/7.17.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3 12/8/2007 1:01:57 PM||Data directory: C:\\Program Files\\BOINC 12/8/2007 1:01:59 PM|SETI@home|Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform 12/8/2007 1:02:03 PM||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9] 12/8/2007 1:02:03 PM||Processor features: fpu tsc sse sse2 mmx 12/8/2007 1:02:03 PM||OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Home Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00) 12/8/2007 1:02:03 PM||Memory: 1.23 GB physical, 2.33 GB virtual 12/8/2007 1:02:03 PM||Disk: 76.33 GB total, 29.92 GB free 12/8/2007 1:02:03 PM||Local time is UTC -7 hours 12/8/2007 1:02:04 PM|SETI@home|URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 3054179; location: home; project prefs: default 12/8/2007 1:02:04 PM||General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 03-Dec-2007 11:22:15) 12/8/2007 1:02:04 PM||Host location: home 12/8/2007 1:02:04 PM||General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 12/8/2007 1:02:04 PM||Reading preferences override file 12/8/2007 1:02:05 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 315.68MB 12/8/2007 1:02:05 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 631.37MB 12/8/2007 1:02:05 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 7.63GB 12/8/2007 1:02:07 PM|SETI@home|Restarting task 11fe07ab.11758.15614.9.6.93_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528 12/8/2007 1:02:07 PM|SETI@home|Restarting task 14fe07ae.32195.72.15.6.174_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528 12/8/2007 2:29:07 PM|SETI@home|Restarting task 14fe07ae.32195.72.15.6.174_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528 12/8/2007 2:50:07 PM|SETI@home|Restarting task 14fe07ae.32195.72.15.6.174_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528 12/8/2007 3:32:41 PM|SETI@home|Restarting task 11fe07ab.11758.15614.9.6.93_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528 12/8/2007 5:13:51 PM|SETI@home|Restarting task 11fe07ab.11758.15614.9.6.93_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528 12/8/2007 5:31:09 PM|SETI@home|Restarting task 11fe07ab.11758.15614.9.6.93_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528 12/8/2007 7:19:06 PM|SETI@home|Restarting task 14fe07ae.32195.72.15.6.174_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528 12/8/2007 8:16:32 PM|SETI@home|Restarting task 14fe07ae.32195.72.15.6.174_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528 12/8/2007 8:29:43 PM|SETI@home|Restarting task 11fe07ab.11758.15614.9.6.93_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528 12/8/2007 9:23:07 PM|SETI@home|Restarting task 14fe07ae.32195.72.15.6.174_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528 12/8/2007 9:32:17 PM|SETI@home|Restarting task 14fe07ae.32195.72.15.6.174_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528 12/8/2007 10:51:35 PM|SETI@home|Restarting task 11fe07ab.11758.15614.9.6.93_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528 12/8/2007 11:38:22 PM|SETI@home|Restarting task 14fe07ae.32195.72.15.6.174_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528 12/8/2007 11:44:28 PM|SETI@home|Restarting task 11fe07ab.11758.15614.9.6.93_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528 12/9/2007 1:45:47 AM|SETI@home|Restarting task 14fe07ae.32195.72.15.6.174_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528 12/9/2007 6:55:34 AM|SETI@home|Restarting task 14fe07ae.32195.72.15.6.174_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 528 And, I don't see anything in the system event log that coincides with the restarts. Mike Carlson Let go or get dragged |
Mike Carlson Send message Joined: 7 Aug 02 Posts: 16 Credit: 143,044 RAC: 0 |
The restarts continue. I have reviewed the SYSTEM EVENT LOG for possible culprits near the time of the last spontaneous SETI task restart. Here are the possible culprits... Universal PNP ... I have this disabled on my system for the obvious reasons. Screen Saver ... I do NOT use the SETI screen saver. This last one is a prime suspect ... I have had problems with the SETI screen saver before which were solve by completely removing SETI in its entirety ... manually deleting all files and registry entries. This hack (not solution) hasn't worked on the restart problem. Mike Carlson Let go or get dragged |
AnubisChick Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 11 Credit: 2,214,466 RAC: 24 |
I think you may have hit on something with the screen saver option. I don't use the boinc screensaver either for any of my WU's, in fact I just go to a blank screen, but I just changed the time on my blank screen option to test and every time it went to blank screen seti restarted. However I know it also restarts when I'm working so therefore no screen saver so it can't be the whole answer, still it's got to be related. |
AnubisChick Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 11 Credit: 2,214,466 RAC: 24 |
ok adding to this, if the screen saver is BOINC it doesn't cause a restart, however when it goes from BOINC to blank screen it does cause another reset, so it's the blank screen that is causing this it seems. Doesn't explain the resets caused with no saver/blank screen involvement, but it may point in a direction. However it looks like checking this out caused an unrecoverable error 10/12/2007 19:21:21|SETI@home|Restarting task 02ja07ab.23284.13156.3.6.70_0 using setiathome_enhanced version 527 10/12/2007 20:08:28|SETI@home|Restarting task 02ja07ab.23284.13156.3.6.70_0 using setiathome_enhanced version 527 10/12/2007 20:31:59|SETI@home|Restarting task 02ja07ab.23284.13156.3.6.70_0 using setiathome_enhanced version 527 10/12/2007 20:44:11|SETI@home|Restarting task 02ja07ab.23284.13156.3.6.70_0 using setiathome_enhanced version 527 10/12/2007 21:08:41|SETI@home|Restarting task 02ja07ab.23284.13156.3.6.70_0 using setiathome_enhanced version 527 10/12/2007 21:15:25|World Community Grid|Resuming task X0000051290019200507152346_0 using hcc1 version 515 10/12/2007 21:15:35|SETI@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec 10/12/2007 21:15:35|SETI@home|Reason: Unrecoverable error for result 02ja07ab.23284.13156.3.6.70_0 ( - exit code 1073807364 (0x40010004)) 10/12/2007 21:15:35|SETI@home|Computation for task 02ja07ab.23284.13156.3.6.70_0 finished 10/12/2007 21:15:37|SETI@home|[file_xfer] Started upload of file 02ja07ab.23284.13156.3.6.70_0_0 10/12/2007 21:15:45|SETI@home|[file_xfer] Finished upload of file 02ja07ab.23284.13156.3.6.70_0_0 10/12/2007 21:15:45|SETI@home|[file_xfer] Throughput 11139 bytes/sec |
Henk Haneveld Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 154 Credit: 1,577,293 RAC: 1 |
@ Mike Problem ocntinues. Have tried playing with PREFERENCES to no avail. Have RESET multiple times to no avail. Have loaded an OPTIMIZED SETI, RESET, SHUTDOWN & REBOOTED and here's the latest message stream... Where did you change the settings. On the Seti website or on your host. If you used the website these changes will not work until you remove the override file on your host.
Chose menu option Advanced,Preferences and click the clear button. |
Mike Carlson Send message Joined: 7 Aug 02 Posts: 16 Credit: 143,044 RAC: 0 |
Hack solution found... I trashed everything BOINC related on my machine. Rebooted. Reinstalled a clean version of BOINC as a SERVICE INSTALLATION. (Screen saver is disabled in the service installation.) There must be a glitch in the BOINC/SETI code that causes restarts when the BOINC/SETI screen saver is NOT used. Mike Carlson Let go or get dragged |
Fred W Send message Joined: 13 Jun 99 Posts: 2524 Credit: 11,954,210 RAC: 0 |
Hack solution found... I'm sorry that we couldn't help you find a less drastic solution. But it's great that you are up and running again. Happy crunching (from now on - we hope). F. |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
There must be a glitch in the BOINC/SETI code that causes restarts when the BOINC/SETI screen saver is NOT used. I wonder if we can duplicate this with a variety of machines, just so we can be certain. |
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