Apparently not only UD but BOINC has lots of bugs, and they remain elusive.



So I'm supposed to stay up for the next five hours waiting for its current job to complete in order to nursemaid it into getting more work? I don't remember that being one of the "minimum system requirements" -- a human willing to forgo sleep some nights at random times without much notice.



What "internal values" that may have stopped me getting work? The only thing that should stop me getting work is if I tell it to stop, or there is no more work for any of the selected projects. I even poked around in the XML files and crap -- it's still configured to queue up three days' work; it wasn't mysteriously changed to zero or anything.



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It would have helped if you'd actually made "Issue?" a link in your post. I suppose I'm expected to simply guess the URL.

Really, I just want to be able to stick the icon in "Startup", forget about it, and have it work perfectly without any further intervention on my part. It's software. It doesn't get rusty and have parts wear out. There's really no good reason why it shouldn't just work and stay working and only possibly stop working if some human somewhere changes something (or the power goes out or the network goes down).

Now please tell me how to make it behave as described once it's reset -- work and stay working and not stop working unless someone monkeys with the settings or there's a hardware failure or something. Some setting to twiddle, some "always get new work" box I can check somewhere, whatever.

Otherwise there's nothing to stop it doing this again. And again. And again...

Oh, and as far as "abundantly discussed around the fora" is concerned, I tried a forum search for "boinc not getting new work" and the first page of hits was nothing but irrelevancies -- some religious debate about Christianity was one of the top ten for Christ's sake (yes, I suppose, literally). Either this has not been "abundantly discussed around the fora" or the forum search is badly broken. Either way, there's obviously no way for me to find and read these "abundant discussions" because either the search tool doesn't work or they simply don't exist. I certainly am not spending the next five (or however many) hours reading forum threads manually, one by one, looking for anything that vaguely seems relevant; that kind of exhaustive searching is what computers are for. If you want people finding existing postings about an issue before making a new thread, you should have a look at maybe fixing that forum search so it returns better-targeted results; what I got looked basically random.

The link is in every post i made on the WCG fora... presently 4895 times.

Set the alarm for 4:00am or do as said step 6 for probable immediate remedy.... there will though possibly be a little latency as BOINC will recompute all the internal scheduling parameters that determine how much work you get. Patience is a virtue.

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I cannot understand why you bother! Twisted never listens to anything you say, nor does what you suggest!

Not good enough. Why doesn't it work for me? I'm the same as anyone else. Software isn't supposed to discriminate -- BOINC can't possibly know if I'm white or black, gay or straight, Christian or Muslim or Jew or atheist or whatever. On what basis would it treat one person differently than another? What you are saying simply doesn't make sense. It either has a bug or it doesn't have a bug. If it doesn't have a bug, I must be either hallucinating or lying, because mysteriously acting like it's been told to wind down a project when it hasn't been cannot possibly be correct behavior. I'm quite sure I'm doing neither thank you very much.



I just reread his post. There isn't a single link in it, aside from the signature link-cruft that's on just about everyone's posts here except mine. I've long since been tuning out the signatures on posts; like ad banners, I basically don't even see them. Are you saying it's in there? That would be a strange thing to do, tell someone to follow some link and then stick it where you could be quite sure no-one would see it.

In any event, there's clearly something bogus going on with BOINC and I still lack an adequate explanation of what. As far as I can tell, there are about four possibilities:

• It's a bug.
  
• All three of FAAH, GC, and HPF are out of work simultaneously.
  
• Someone deliberately included in BOINC obscure, unpredictable, and puzzling behaviors such as "acting as if a user clicked No New Tasks when nobody actually did" for mysterious reasons, making it not technically a bug but nonetheless still undesirable behavior.
  
• I'm imagining things, or lying, or something.
  

Those are, by the way, in decreasing order of probability. The first one simply requires someone to have made a mistake. The second one requires three big coincidences in timing. (Three, because HCMD is wrapping up at the same time.) The third requires someone somewhere to be crazy, which isn't too uncommon, and to have managed to write code coherent enough to compile while crazy, which is rather unlikely, and to have gotten such code accepted into a large open source project, which is really unlikely, and to have had that code remain unmolested all the time since despite being horribly broken, which is near impossible. The fourth requires me to be crazy, which actually is impossible. :P



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Edited for inappropriate language - nelsoc