Hi,

for the last few days, I have been unable to download any tasks from WCG on my machine. My OS is Archlinux, and everything is up-to-date (except boinc since the last version who came out a few days ago haven't hit the repository yet).

To be more accurate, in the transfer tab of the BOINC Manager, all downloads are stuck at 0% with the error "Download: Retry in xx:yy:zz (project backoff: aa:bb:cc)". Since I'm currently trying to download from several projects, I don't believe the problem comes from the project.

Since i'm only using BOINC on this machine, i've been able to pinpoint the problem to around september 8th, date of my last return.

What i've tried so far: aborting all downloads and task and clicking on "update" on WCG in the BOINC Manager. I've tried resetting WCG, and i've tried removing and re-adding WCG on my Projects list of the BOINC Manager. Nothing have worked, but in the last 2 cases a lot of stuff got downloaded, and the downloads actually seemed to be working, though they seemed to be mostly .gif files or small files, so I assumed they were not related to any task, and were rather graphical stuff from WCG.

Here are a few relevant lines from /var/lib/boinc/stdoutae.txt:

10-Sep-2012 02:12:12 [---] [http] [ID#0] Info:  Connection #2 to host www.worldcommunitygrid.org left intact
10-Sep-2012 02:12:12 [World Community Grid] Temporarily failed download of hcc1_image01_6.40.tga: transient HTTP error
10-Sep-2012 02:12:12 [World Community Grid] Backing off 24 min 12 sec on download of hcc1_image01_6.40.tga
10-Sep-2012 02:12:12 [World Community Grid] Temporarily failed download of cfsw_image05_6.11.tga: transient HTTP error
10-Sep-2012 02:12:12 [World Community Grid] Backing off 12 min 23 sec on download of cfsw_image05_6.11.tga

There are also a few SSL error:

10-Sep-2012 02:12:11 [World Community Grid] [http] [ID#3] Info:  SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
10-Sep-2012 02:12:12 [World Community Grid] [http] [ID#2] Info:  Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to download.worldcommunitygrid.org:443
10-Sep-2012 02:12:12 [World Community Grid] [http] [ID#2] Info:  Closing connection #0
10-Sep-2012 02:12:12 [World Community Grid] [http] HTTP error: SSL connect error
10-Sep-2012 02:12:12 [World Community Grid] [http] [ID#3] Info:  Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to download.worldcommunitygrid.org:443
10-Sep-2012 02:12:12 [World Community Grid] [http] [ID#3] Info:  Closing connection #1

For the bravest of data cruncher here, i've uploaded a whole session of stdoutae.txt on a pastebin here. Not the whole file obviously, since it's really really huge (about 12 000 lines), just the most recent session from the daemon startup.

I'm really at loss at what to do, so any help would be greatly appreciated. I'll also try to be as available as possible to give every details I might have forgot to give here. Thanks to anyone who might help.