Loss of a Project Due Corrupt Account File

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gwg Send message Joined: 13 Aug 06 Posts: 8	Message 5415 - Posted: 23 Aug 2006, 12:25:52 UTC I am running BOINC 5.4.9 on an Apple Dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4 processor using Mac OS X 10.4.7. Recently, I set up BOINCStats BAM to synchronise all four of my networked computers, so there may be some problem arising from the synchronisation, although I can't see anything wrong with the BAM data when I log in to BAM, and it has been running for several days now. I am running four projects on this machine, Seti@Home, Einstein@Home, World Communit Grid, and SZTAKI Desktop Grid. SZTAKI gets 50% of my resources and the others share the remaining 50%, but SZTAKI is usually timing out on CPU total time, or running late (as it is now). Thus, recently BOINC entered its procedure to try and reach the deadline for the SZTAKI Desktop Grid WU. Last night sometime, I lost the Seti@Home project, so I did an orderly shutdown and rebooted my machine at around 17:00 my time. I got the following relevant messages, indicating that account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml was corrupted: ------ Wed 23 Aug 17:04:35 2006\|\|Starting BOINC client version 5.4.9 for powerpc-apple-darwin Wed 23 Aug 17:04:35 2006\|\|libcurl/7.15.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7i zlib/1.2.3 Wed 23 Aug 17:04:35 2006\|\|Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data Wed 23 Aug 17:04:36 2006\|\|Couldn't parse account file account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml Wed 23 Aug 17:04:38 2006\|\|Project for statistics file statistics_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml not found - ignoring Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006\|SETI@home\|Project SETI@home is in state file but no account file found Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006\|\|Application setiathome_enhanced outside project in state file Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006\|\|File info outside project in state file Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006\|\|File info outside project in state file Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006\|\|File info outside project in state file Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006\|\|File info outside project in state file Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006\|\|File info outside project in state file Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006\|\|File info outside project in state file Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006\|\|File info outside project in state file Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006\|\|File info outside project in state file Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006\|\|Application version outside project in state file Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006\|\|Workunit outside project in state file Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006\|\|Task 19ap06aa.18683.9569.73576.3.134_2 outside project in state file Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006\|\|State file error: project http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ not found Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006\|\|Processor: 2 Power Macintosh PowerMac3,6 Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006\|\|Memory: 1.00 GB physical, 0 bytes virtual Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006\|\|Disk: 74.40 GB total, 12.32 GB free Wed 23 Aug 17:04:41 2006\|Einstein@Home\|URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID: 414333; location: New:; project prefs: default Wed 23 Aug 17:04:41 2006\|SZTAKI Desktop Grid\|URL: http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/; Computer ID: 147117; location: home; project prefs: default Wed 23 Aug 17:04:41 2006\|World Community Grid\|URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 55465; location: home; project prefs: home Wed 23 Aug 17:04:41 2006\|\|General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 2006-08-16 09:55:46) Wed 23 Aug 17:04:41 2006\|\|General prefs: using separate prefs for home Wed 23 Aug 17:04:43 2006\|\|Listening on port 31416 Wed 23 Aug 17:04:43 2006\|World Community Grid\|Resuming task faah0764_bdb190_mx1gnn_dry_01_1 using faah version 510 Wed 23 Aug 17:04:44 2006\|SZTAKI Desktop Grid\|Resuming task ab094285-a60b-418b-a548-bec0c0d6271d_05a8efd8-f727-4461-9d73-d691132f8248_1184_4 using search version 200 Wed 23 Aug 17:04:46 2006\|\|Contacting account manager at http://bam.boincstats.com/ Wed 23 Aug 17:04:46 2006\|\|Using earliest-deadline-first scheduling because computer is overcommitted. Wed 23 Aug 17:04:46 2006\|\|Suspending work fetch because computer is overcommitted. Wed 23 Aug 17:06:47 2006\|\|Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site Wed 23 Aug 17:06:47 2006\|\|Access to reference web site failed - check network connection or proxy configuration. Wed 23 Aug 17:06:47 2006\|\|Account manager error: http error ------ Indeed, the file appears to have been overwritten with the statistics_einstein.phys.uwm.edu.xml file. See the first few lines below: account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml ----------------------------------- <project_statistics> <master_url>http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/</master_url> <daily_statistics> <day>1153180800.000000</day> <user_total_credit>68486.004429</user_total_credit> <user_expavg_credit>360.044589</user_expavg_credit> <host_total_credit>32747.211497</host_total_credit> <host_expavg_credit>189.910476</host_expavg_credit> </daily_statistics> ... All other Seti@Home files appear to be in one piece. Now, my BOINC Manager cannot synchronise with BAM, and I can't figure out how to restore my Seti@Home Project. Wed 23 Aug 17:19:19 2006\|\|Contacting account manager at http://bam.boincstats.com/ Wed 23 Aug 17:21:19 2006\|\|Account manager error: http error Any help greatly appreciated. George ------ Dr George W Gerrity GWG Associates P O Box 229 Harden, NSW 2587 AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 2 6386 3431 Fx: +61 2 6386 4431 Time: +10 hours (ref GMT) PGP RSA Public Key Fingerprint: 73EF 318A DFF5 EB8A 6810 49AC 0763 AF07 ID: 5415 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15490	Message 5421 - Posted: 23 Aug 2006, 20:11:27 UTC Did you post this on the BAM forums as well? As to me it sounds more like a problem with BOINC Account Manager. BOINC doesn't overwrite much of the account_*.xml files, unless you re-attach to them. ID: 5421 ·

gwg Send message Joined: 13 Aug 06 Posts: 8	Message 5423 - Posted: 24 Aug 2006, 5:16:25 UTC - in response to Message 5421. Did you post this on the BAM forums as well? As to me it sounds more like a problem with BOINC Account Manager. BOINC doesn't overwrite much of the account_*.xml files, unless you re-attach to them. good idea. I'll do that. George ------ Dr George W Gerrity GWG Associates P O Box 229 Harden, NSW 2587 AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 2 6386 3431 Fx: +61 2 6386 4431 Time: +10 hours (ref GMT) PGP RSA Public Key Fingerprint: 73EF 318A DFF5 EB8A 6810 49AC 0763 AF07 ID: 5423 ·

gwg Send message Joined: 13 Aug 06 Posts: 8	Message 5454 - Posted: 28 Aug 2006, 3:31:23 UTC Fixed today (2006-08-28 03:30 UT) after a detailed bug report to BAM 24 hours ago Thanks to BAM maintainer. George ------ Dr George W Gerrity GWG Associates P O Box 229 Harden, NSW 2587 AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 2 6386 3431 Fx: +61 2 6386 4431 Time: +10 hours (ref GMT) PGP RSA Public Key Fingerprint: 73EF 318A DFF5 EB8A 6810 49AC 0763 AF07 ID: 5454 ·

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