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Former Member
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Hi everyone,
----------------------------------------I'm running BOINC on a Gentoo. Recently, BOINC started to give me communication error during the upload process ("Scheduler request failed: unsupported protocol"). I tried everything : reboot BOINC, click on the project's Update button, Reset the project (but then BOINC failed to download new WU), detaching and attaching the project... but nothing worked. Then I tried to downgrade curl from version 7.19.7 to 7.19.6 and it now works like a charm. It seems BOINC (or WCG) doesn't really like the latest curl's version. Does anyone else got the same behavior ? PS : the problem was present on both BOINC 6.6.40 and 6.10.18. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Nov 12, 2009 8:22:02 PM] |
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Former Member
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After some tests, it turns out that only WCG doesn't work with the latest curl version. Other projects, like rosetta@home or LHC@home, just work fine.
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Ingleside
Veteran Cruncher Norway Joined: Nov 19, 2005 Post Count: 974 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hmm, BOINC uses libcurl v7.19.4, atleast on windows, and there's no mentioning it's been upgraded since 3. March 2009.
----------------------------------------No idea how it is with Linux...  "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might." |
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3716 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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No idea how it is with Linux... Under Ubuntu I am still at release 9.04 and libcurl is reported as 7.18.2. It seems that we will need Linux pioneers to help on this topic.  |
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uplinger
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: May 23, 2005 Post Count: 3952 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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A few notes on why it works else where but not here.
World Community Grid uses SSL for our connections with the server. This is different then most projects that do not use this and is probably why you see the difference between this project and others. Also, how did you install libcurl? The current version with Ubuntu 9.10 is 7.19.5 which works with our servers. Version 7.19.7 was released only 9 days ago, i don't know what the changes made between 6 and 7 were that caused the issues. It could be anything from improperly packaged installs, or possibly something in the root of the libcurl code. Do you have issues with other sites that use ssl? -Uplinger |
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Former Member
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Thanks for for the explanation, SSL was indeed the problem.
Gentoo developers have changed the way SSL is handled in the latest curl release, so I was running it without any SSL support. Now everything works fine. |
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Former Member
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Hello,
I'm pretty new too linux and so am quite helpless with this. I use SUSE 11.2 x64 on an Phenom II 965 C3 system. While I can not guaranty I installed BOINC correctly: download http://boincdl3.ssl.berkeley.edu/mirror/boinc_6.10.17_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh to /home sh boinc_6.10.17_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh cd BOINC *click on* boinc *click on* boinccmd *click on* boincmgr (I do not know how to run it automatically, te run-manager does not seem to work or I'm doing it wrong) ... other projects are running. With WCG I get this: Mo 16 Nov 2009 20:38:42 CET http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ Sending scheduler request: Project initialization. Mo 16 Nov 2009 20:38:42 CET http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ Requesting new tasks Mo 16 Nov 2009 20:38:43 CET Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site Mo 16 Nov 2009 20:38:44 CET Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. Mo 16 Nov 2009 20:38:48 CET http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ Scheduler request failed: Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?) I think it is the same problem but I have no idea where to grand those rights or how to resolve the issue. Could some one please explain? |
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uplinger
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: May 23, 2005 Post Count: 3952 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Holly,
I'm not sure what might be the issue on this version of the agent. But you'll want to take a look at this post by me. https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,27806 There is information in there on the ca-bundle.crt file that needs to be downloaded. I'm not sure where yours would be located or where to put it on SUSE. You might try putting this file in your BOINC directory. Hope this helps, if not i can try to research the issue on suse more. But my guess is you don't have a valid ca-bundle.crt file similar to what happened on Ubuntu Karmic Koala. -Uplinger |
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