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Former Member
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My two oldest machine suddenly can't connect to WCG. Both are very ancient, in fact they are running Windows 2000. I know, I know, they deserve to rest peacefully after a long and productive life (10+ years of service for different DC projects). But, let me see if there's something I can do. Both are running only HCC. They got "stuck" more or less at the same time (around 16:00~18:00 on Sep 17th), so maybe something happened with a specific batch of HCC WU's or WCG decided to not allow Win2K PCs anymore. All other computers on the same network and internet connection, but different OSs, have no problems. Any ideas, beside putting them to rest
 I already stopped/started network communications, rebooted machines, etc. They navigate OK, even to the WCG site. I don't want to abort the finished WUs. Some of the messages I get: 9/19/2012 1:40:07 AM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 9/19/2012 1:40:07 AM World Community Grid Temporarily failed upload of X0930068521475200605091604_0_0: HTTP error 9/19/2012 1:40:07 AM World Community Grid Backing off 1 hr 53 min 52 sec on upload of X0930068521475200605091604_0_0 9/19/2012 1:40:13 AM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 9/19/2012 1:40:26 AM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 9/19/2012 1:40:26 AM World Community Grid Temporarily failed upload of X0960068530528200604251139_0_0: HTTP error 9/19/2012 1:40:26 AM World Community Grid Backing off 2 hr 13 min 56 sec on upload of X0960068530528200604251139_0_0 9/19/2012 1:40:28 AM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 9/19/2012 1:40:59 AM World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 9/19/2012 1:40:59 AM World Community Grid Requesting new tasks 9/19/2012 1:41:50 AM World Community Grid Started upload of X0930068521475200605091604_0_0 9/19/2012 1:42:48 AM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 9/19/2012 1:42:48 AM World Community Grid Scheduler request failed: Server returned nothing (no headers, no data) 9/19/2012 1:42:49 AM Suspending network activity - user request 9/19/2012 1:42:49 AM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 9/19/2012 1:43:04 AM Resuming network activity |
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mikey
Veteran Cruncher Joined: May 10, 2009 Post Count: 826 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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My two oldest machine suddenly can't connect to WCG. Both are very ancient, in fact they are running Windows 2000. I know, I know, they deserve to rest peacefully after a long and productive life (10+ years of service for different DC projects). But, let me see if there's something I can do. Both are running only HCC. They got "stuck" more or less at the same time (around 16:00~18:00 on Sep 17th), so maybe something happened with a specific batch of HCC WU's or WCG decided to not allow Win2K PCs anymore. All other computers on the same network and internet connection, but different OSs, have no problems. Any ideas, beside putting them to rest I already stopped/started network communications, rebooted machines, etc. They navigate OK, even to the WCG site. I don't want to abort the finished WUs. Some of the messages I get: 9/19/2012 1:40:07 AM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 9/19/2012 1:40:07 AM World Community Grid Temporarily failed upload of X0930068521475200605091604_0_0: HTTP error 9/19/2012 1:40:07 AM World Community Grid Backing off 1 hr 53 min 52 sec on upload of X0930068521475200605091604_0_0 9/19/2012 1:40:13 AM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 9/19/2012 1:40:26 AM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 9/19/2012 1:40:26 AM World Community Grid Temporarily failed upload of X0960068530528200604251139_0_0: HTTP error 9/19/2012 1:40:26 AM World Community Grid Backing off 2 hr 13 min 56 sec on upload of X0960068530528200604251139_0_0 9/19/2012 1:40:28 AM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 9/19/2012 1:40:59 AM World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 9/19/2012 1:40:59 AM World Community Grid Requesting new tasks 9/19/2012 1:41:50 AM World Community Grid Started upload of X0930068521475200605091604_0_0 9/19/2012 1:42:48 AM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 9/19/2012 1:42:48 AM World Community Grid Scheduler request failed: Server returned nothing (no headers, no data) 9/19/2012 1:42:49 AM Suspending network activity - user request 9/19/2012 1:42:49 AM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 9/19/2012 1:43:04 AM Resuming network activity Could you be running into the every 12 hours, roughly, WCG system updates? I get this sometimes during that time, but then after about an hour it works fine again.   |
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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If you access https://grid.worldcommunitygrid.org/boinc/wcg_cgi/file_upload_handler with your browser on those computers, do you see something like:
<data_server_reply> <status>1</status> <message>no command</message> </data_server_reply> |
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Former Member
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This moment the page pops out:
<data_server_reply> |
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Former Member
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Yes, I get that response:
<data_server_reply> <status>1</status> <message>no command</message> </data_server_reply> Restarting the machine and BOINC, I get a window that says I don't have a default connection. Uploads get stuck at 76.99%. Very very weird.  |
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In the Options screen "Connections" tab, there may be listed a default connectoid. I had to clear that on my office laptop i.e. no default as I was alternating between the office network and the home dial up. Clearing that essentially let BOINC autopick the available connection. Now why that pops up middle of transmission could e.g. suggest you've got a poor connection timing out. Here in digital world, the phone line also serves as the ADSL2+ line, with a little noise separator filter in it else you'd get horrible hiss on the phone. At one time I kept loosing the ADSL, tel tech came who swapped this 5 dollar item and away we were again.
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Well, I'm still unable to get those 2 Windows 2000 PCs to connect to WCG (via BOINC). There's nothing in "Options -> Connections". The internet connection is shared among all my devices at home and all others are doing OK. I updated the BOINC client to the latest stable Berkeley version (7.0.28) and still nothing. I'm about to give up trying to solve the problem, since those machines are not contributing much anyway (except my electric bill). I have less than two days before the pending WUs hanging there time out.
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