probably you have a nvidia graphic card and the error is on cuda_fermi packages. You must download this: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads

fscheel wrote:

The last few days I have been getting a few "error while downloading"
Any ideas as to what is causing this?

Frank

Example:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=2715242784

<core_client_version>7.0.28</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
WU download error: couldn't get input files:
<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>01se12ac.21111.2934.140733193388046.10.203</file_name>
  <error_code>-200</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>

</message>
]]>

This could be a problem with the S@h server.

For a few weeks we had the same problem at S@h-Beta.

Maybe an admin should look to this problem.


* Best regards! :-) * Sutaru Tsureku, team seti.international founder. * Optimize your PC for higher RAC. * SETI@home needs your help. *

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fscheel wrote:

The last few days I have been getting a few "error while downloading"
Any ideas as to what is causing this?

Frank

Example:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=2715242784

<core_client_version>7.0.28</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
WU download error: couldn't get input files:
<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>01se12ac.21111.2934.140733193388046.10.203</file_name>
  <error_code>-200</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>

</message>
]]>

This could be a problem with the S@h server.

For a few weeks we had the same problem at S@h-Beta.

Maybe an admin should look to this problem.


* Best regards! :-) * Sutaru Tsureku, team seti.international founder. * Optimize your PC for higher RAC. * SETI@home needs your help. *

Thanks, guess that means the issue is not on my end.

Woopeee, its a shortie storm.....

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

No, I don't. Like I said, it happened on the server side! My host didn't even succeed in making a scheduler request. This is the second time it happened. I'm not the only one this happened to; there were other users reporting the same thing.

What version of BOINC?
Which OS & version?

EDIT- ie, were they the same as yours or different?

Linux/x64, BOINC 7.0.39
Others have had it happen on Windows (don't know about BOINC version, most definitely not 7.0.39).
I don't think it's client's fault but server's - I assume it receives a malformed request (due to networking problems) and thinks project was reset.
Client wasn't even notified about that and continued to crunch already abandoned tasks so I had to manually abort them (ok, I accidentaly aborted a few more tasks that weren't "abandoned"). I had to use proxy for that otherwise that computer on that ISP rarely manages to contact scheduler without timing out.

Are you using a proxy- guess what? I just got my first abandoned tasks, 200 of them.
Only occurred since using a proxy.

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Grant
Darwin NT

All right, all my active crunchers are now in mode "Set & Forget"

No "No New Tasks", proxies, manually update. No any kind of user activity.

"Install and forget"....

Let's wait and see what happens to them and their tasks.

Crow
Thunder
Bigred

Hope for best, fear for....

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"Please keep Your signature under four lines so Internet traffic doesn't go up too much"

- In 1992 when I had my first e-mail address -

Are you using a proxy- guess what? I just got my first abandoned tasks, 200 of them.
Only occurred since using a proxy.

Welcome to the club. :-)
I didn't use any proxy when it happened.

Meh... just another not so set-and-forget thing that could happen at S@H. If you don't notice that all tasks were abandoned, boinc will just continue to crunch them into oblivion, wasting time and power. Looks like it's best to have a minimum cache or check your tasks every day.
It really got my goat when I saw my 100 AP tasks nuked...

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Totally empty que. Have gotten only some 20 WU today. They were consumed in a matter of few tens of minutes. Is there no work out there?

Hey this is like Unemployment for the clients. No work.... We want more work....

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I have been running just fine since I fixed my networking, have as much work as the project will send me. And reporting is going though just about always on the first shot. Downloads have still been a little slow but moving along.

Now I just need to replace one of my nvidia cards that is no longer working right on my old crunch box.

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Seti@Home 11/15/2012 8:15:00PM work fetch resumed by user
Seti@Home 11/15/2012 8:15:01PM update requested by user
Seti@Home 11/15/2012 8:15:02PM Sending scheduler request. Requested by user.
Seti@Home 11/15/2012 8:15:02PM Requesting new tasks for CPU.
Seti@Home 11/15/2012 8:21:25PM Scheduler request failed. Timeout was reached
Seti@Home 11/15/2012 8:21:29PM Project communication failed. attempting access to reference site
Seti@Home 11/15/2012 8:21:31PM Internet access ok - Project servers may be temporarily down

This is what I keep getting. Any word as to when this all may be rectified??

Seti@Home 11/15/2012 8:15:00PM work fetch resumed by user
Seti@Home 11/15/2012 8:15:01PM update requested by user
Seti@Home 11/15/2012 8:15:02PM Sending scheduler request. Requested by user.
Seti@Home 11/15/2012 8:15:02PM Requesting new tasks for CPU.
Seti@Home 11/15/2012 8:21:25PM Scheduler request failed. Timeout was reached
Seti@Home 11/15/2012 8:21:29PM Project communication failed. attempting access to reference site
Seti@Home 11/15/2012 8:21:31PM Internet access ok - Project servers may be temporarily down

This is what I keep getting. Any word as to when this all may be rectified??

You should try using a proxy. It seems that the scheduller is not having issues doing its work, but it fails to comunicate with the clients when its contacted directly. When a proxy is used the comunications fail a lot less... Not a confirmed theory, but everyone using a proxy is now getting work regularly.

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You should try using a proxy. It seems that the scheduller is not having issues doing its work, but it fails to comunicate with the clients when its contacted directly. When a proxy is used the comunications fail a lot less... Not a confirmed theory, but everyone using a proxy is now getting work regularly.

Ok. So where is the list of proxies? And how to configure it in Boinc?

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You should try using a proxy. It seems that the scheduller is not having issues doing its work, but it fails to comunicate with the clients when its contacted directly. When a proxy is used the comunications fail a lot less... Not a confirmed theory, but everyone using a proxy is now getting work regularly.

Ok. So where is the list of proxies? And how to configure it in Boinc?

To find a proxy you better use google, if we post a proxy address here and everybody start to use it, the admins of that proxy will block the SETI comunications due to the bandwith used...
Look for transparent or anonymous free proxies... not every proxy you will find works, so you will need to try different ones until one works for you.

To set it, in BOINC 6.xx, in advanced mode you need to go to the Tools menu, then "display and network options" and in the http proxy tab you should mark the "conect via http proxy" option and enter the address and the port of the proxy. I guess its not very different in BOINC 7.xx but Ive never used that version...

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You could use

http://www.freeproxylists.net

and easely find one that works in your country.

But be warning, the proxy that works today could not work tomorrow so the use of a proxy means babysitting...

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Not that astute to initiate a proxy connection without a little assistance. I follow directions well. Anyone offer assistance so I can help us meet ET a little sooner?

Not that astute to initiate a proxy connection without a little assistance. I follow directions well. Anyone offer assistance so I can help us meet ET a little sooner?

What kind of assistance you need? There are realy few things to do to put a proxy to work, just choose the IP/port and put to work, then look if it works, if no try another.

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Never mind. I figured it out. BAM....Just got the 1st 20. More to come. Thanks to Horacio and as I see to Juan also for the quick reply.

Thank you Horacio and Juan.

I just needed someone to confirm that I set this up under my advanced options for http and now you have given me hints on how to find the proxies. I haven't seen anything written so far on what port setting to use. Anyone have any suggestions there? I will try to google this idea, but I would sure appreciate it if someone would poing us/me to a good article on the topic. I am feeling pretty frustrated now and have switched over to alternative projects GPU Grid, Milky Way and World Community Grid and Einstein for my desktops with Nvidia 550 Ti cards. My newer notebook with an i7 2670 qm processor and Nvidia 525m graphics card is also having a lot of trouble getting work since this morning. Even this little Toshib i3 computer. a Portege R705 with integrated graphics is having trouble now getting work with lots of time outs and no work available during most of today. Am frustrated just like a lot of others, but will keep trying and handing off to alternative projects when scheduler problems get this bad. Seti RAC is dropping like a stone, but hey, I'm just trying to lend a hand when I can. I hope that we don't lost a lot of SETI at Home participants over this. Brother Frank

To find a proxy you better use google, if we post a proxy address here and everybody start to use it, the admins of that proxy will block the SETI comunications due to the bandwith used...
Look for transparent or anonymous free proxies... not every proxy you will find works, so you will need to try different ones until one works for you.

Will a HTTPS proxy work?
What is the optimum location for a Proxy? Could it be located in the US rather than somewhere else (in order to minimize the distance between Seti server and the proxy)?

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Okay guys.. don't shoot. I tried searching because I've seen this asked before and answered multiple times..

The broken 6.10.58 64-bit windows installer issue. I remember asking a while back which was more preferred between 58/60 and I got more responses for 58, but I can't download it.

Reason I guess I'm finally going to upgrade is because 6.2.19 has been working great for me until this week's updates to win7. One of the updates I guess changed some API code or something in the GUI and now the progress bars in BM don't appear. It is just text that is right-aligned instead of centered, and the rows don't alternate with white and slightly shaded, either.

I do plan on adding no_gpus to my cc_config as well since I have an ancient 8800GT that has chirping capacitors for the past six months. I'd rather not push it to its death sooner than I can afford.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)