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danny
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Usually my BOINC agent happily ran in the background, downloading tasks, processing them, and uploading results. But having recently received a WCG email I checked my status and saw that I hadn't sent in a result for a month.
----------------------------------------Here's an extract from my BOINC agent log - I interpret this as there is no work to be done, which I doubt! Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:39:26 GMT | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:39:26 GMT | World Community Grid | Requesting new tasks for CPU Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:39:53 GMT | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:39:53 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks sent Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:39:53 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:39:53 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2 Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:39:53 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for Help Fight Childhood Cancer Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:39:53 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for Help Conquer Cancer Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:39:53 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:39:53 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for FightAIDS@Home Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:39:53 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together - Phase 2 Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:39:53 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together - Phase 2 (Type A) Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:39:53 GMT | World Community Grid | Tasks are committed to other platforms Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:39:53 GMT | World Community Grid | This computer has finished a daily quota of 1 tasks Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:51:25 GMT | | Resuming computation Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:57:17 GMT | | Suspending computation - CPU is busy Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:57:27 GMT | | Resuming computation Fri 02 Nov 2012 08:00:33 GMT | World Community Grid | update requested by user Fri 02 Nov 2012 08:00:35 GMT | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Fri 02 Nov 2012 08:00:35 GMT | World Community Grid | Requesting new tasks for CPU Fri 02 Nov 2012 08:00:43 GMT | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks Fri 02 Nov 2012 08:00:43 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks sent Fri 02 Nov 2012 08:00:43 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for Say No to Schistosoma Fri 02 Nov 2012 08:00:43 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 Fri 02 Nov 2012 08:00:43 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2 Fri 02 Nov 2012 08:00:43 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for Help Fight Childhood Cancer Fri 02 Nov 2012 08:00:43 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for Help Conquer Cancer Fri 02 Nov 2012 08:00:43 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 Fri 02 Nov 2012 08:00:43 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for FightAIDS@Home Fri 02 Nov 2012 08:00:43 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together - Phase 2 Fri 02 Nov 2012 08:00:43 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together - Phase 2 (Type A) Fri 02 Nov 2012 08:00:43 GMT | World Community Grid | Tasks are committed to other platforms Fri 02 Nov 2012 08:00:43 GMT | World Community Grid | This computer has finished a daily quota of 1 tasks I'm running BOINC Manager 6.2.33 (x86) on Ubuntu 11.10 Any ideas? Danny [Edit 1 times, last edit by danny at Nov 2, 2012 8:06:40 AM] |
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Former Member
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Hi,
----------------------------------------Sorry for that. You did not post the top 30 lines after startup of BOINC which always have our greatest interest, which probably tells us the client is set to pause when there's more than 25% processing power needed for non-BOINC activities, which accounts for this line: Suspending computation - CPU is busy As to your client version, probably a typo, suspecting it's 6.12.33 which I think was the version that Ubuntu 11.10 had in the repository for installation. That client would understand the "too busy, pause BOINC". This line: This computer has finished a daily quota of 1 tasks Suggests that your client is only returning errors **, so it's down to 1 task per day. But, it could also be it's trying to fetch work that's not available on Linux per this line Fri 02 Nov 2012 07:39:53 GMT | World Community Grid | Tasks are committed to other platforms Think for the time being, you need to set the website device profile to *not* try downloading GPU work. Also check if there's other processes that cause BOINC to pause all the time. With System Monitor, sorted on CPU load and also selecting to see everyone's processes, you would see what is taking the power. Else, if you set the option "While processor usage is less than xx %" to zero, it would at least run BOINC with whatever spare cycles there are [My Ubuntu is set to 35% actually], but we need to first get BOINC to run work again. Lots of guesses edit: Follow this shortcut link http://tinyurl.com/3448g5 to visit the My Grid > Result Status page to confirm if results are at all returned with an Error status. If so, click on the Error link and copy/post the Result log content so we can see what the issue is. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Nov 2, 2012 8:25:24 AM] |
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catchercradle
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Ubuntu repositories now have 7.0.28, certainly on 12.x and I think on 11.x as well. On one machine I am using the version from the repositories and on the other 7.0.29 as the tar.gz file running from my home directory. I have just reattached to WCG because climate prediction dot net is out of work at the moment and successfully downloaded a Say no to Schistosoma task on my Kubuntu 12.10 netbook. As is ususal with a new to the machine type of task on it time to completion is steadily rising at the moment.
Back to the point, I have my machine set to use at most 95% of cpu time and 100% of the processors. I also ensure keep in memory when task suspended box is checked but more because of cpdn issues than anything else. Dave |
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danny
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Hi Rob
Thanks for your reply Yes it was a typo - 6.12.33. Here are the first 30 lines of the log: Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | Starting BOINC client version 6.12.33 for i686-pc-linux-gnu Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | Config: GUI RPC allowed from: Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | Libraries: libcurl/7.21.6 OpenSSL/1.0.0e zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.22 librtmp/2.3 Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 560 @ 2.67GHz [Family 6 Model 37 Stepping 5] Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | Processor: 3.00 MB cache Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cp Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | OS: Linux: 3.0.0-26-generic-pae Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | Memory: 3.73 GB physical, 6.92 GB virtual Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | Disk: 160.19 GB total, 44.32 GB free Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | Local time is UTC +0 hours Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | VirtualBox version: 4.1.8r75467 Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | No usable GPUs found Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | A new version of BOINC is available. <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php>Download it.</a> Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | World Community Grid | URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 1591881; resource share 100 Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | World Community Grid | General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 01-Jan-1970 01:00:01) Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | World Community Grid | Host location: none Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | World Community Grid | General prefs: using your defaults Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | Reading preferences override file Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | Preferences: Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | max memory usage when active: 1911.54MB Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | max memory usage when idle: 2867.31MB Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | max disk usage: 10.00GB Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | max CPUs used: 2 Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | don't compute while active Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | don't use GPU while active Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 % Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | Not using a proxy Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:31 GMT | | Suspending computation - computer is in use Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:31 GMT | | Suspending network activity - computer is in use And you are right about the errors - just checked and here's the latest error log: Result Log Result Name: GFAM_ x3N3Ma_ 8WATs_ PfODCase_ 0048100_ 0052_ 1-- <core_client_version>6.12.33</core_client_version> <![CDATA[ <message> process exited with code 210 (0xd2, -46) </message> <stderr_txt> 08:44:35 (28618): start_timer_thread(): pthread_create(): 11Initializing BOINC failed. BOINC error: 11: 08:44:35 (28618): called boinc_finish </stderr_txt> ]]> I've now unchecked "If my computer can process work on my graphics card, then please send me work to run on my graphics card for the projects that I have selected above." to avoid GPU work. I've also set "Whilst processor usage" to zero Thanks for your advice so far - let me know what you think. Danny |
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Former Member
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The virtual box line pops up as a yellow flag. You always ran it through a VB and had good results?
There's obviously 2 offending lines in the log leading to tasks not having lift-off: process exited with code 210 (0xd2, -46) </message> 11Initializing BOINC failed. BOINC error: 11: Old google, popped up this post at Berkeley: Problem [RESOLVED], well kind of... I ran memtest86+ four times without errors uninstalled BOINC completely and left it like that. I re-installed BOINC using Fedoras Add/Remove Software app and when I came to the point where I get to choose projects, World Community Grid was greyed out and on choosing that it says "This project may not have work for your type of computer."? I don't remember ever seeing that message before? Anyway, I chose another project, climateprediction.net and that one downloaded its files and have been running happiliy ever since... Facts and figures about my machine: Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz [Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 12] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon bts pni monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr pdcm OS: Linux: 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE Memory: 2.95 GB physical, 2.00 GB virtual Disk: 39.94 GB total, 10.39 GB free What my pc able to run climateprediction.net but unable to run worldcommunitygrid? anyone? Often the case if other project run, but WCG fails, it's something with security but here it could be permissions. Propose a reinstall, with whatever the repo has on offer. Could be 7.0.28 which runs fine on Ubuntu/Linux. For the moment I'd set the Activity menu option to Run Always, till we find the cause as while you're at the computer, the client do anything: Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | don't compute while active Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | don't use GPU while active Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 % Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:28 GMT | | Not using a proxy Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:31 GMT | | Suspending computation - computer is in use Wed 31 Oct 2012 16:44:31 GMT | | Suspending network activity - computer is in use |
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danny
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Thanks for your detailed reply Rob.
I'm running VirtualBox on my host Ubuntu machine with various guests. BOINC is running on the host too - so I guess that message is just to show that BOINC is running alongside VirtualBox. I tried completely removing BOINC and reinstalling but still get computation errors. So I tried to attach to another project (Mikyway@Home) and that managed to download a work unit, which it's currently processing. So it appears to be an issue limited to WCG. Stumped! Danny |
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courine
Master Cruncher Capt., Team In2My.Net Cmd. HQ: San Francisco Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 1794 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I was running wcg on this machine in the past, but was limited on how many machines I could run for power reasons. The other day I had a machine go and have pulled this one forward until the main machine can be repaired. But since I reloaded the new client, I get no new tasks.
----------------------------------------11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for windows_intelx86 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM Data directory: I:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM Running under account mech 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM Processor: 2 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ [Family 15 Model 75 Stepping 2] 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM Processor: 512.00 KB cache 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni cx16 syscall nx lm svm rdtscp 3dnowext 3dnow 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Home x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00) 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM Memory: 1.94 GB physical, 3.78 GB virtual 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM Disk: 195.31 GB total, 175.51 GB free 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM Local time is UTC -8 hours 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM No usable GPUs found 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM World Community Grid URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 1176592; resource share 100 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM World Community Grid General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 24-Feb-2010 13:20:50) 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM World Community Grid Host location: none 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM World Community Grid General prefs: using your defaults 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM Reading preferences override file 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM Preferences: 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM max memory usage when active: 1982.42MB 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM max memory usage when idle: 1982.42MB 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM max disk usage: 10.00GB 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM don't use GPU while active 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM max download rate: 999997 bytes/sec 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM max upload rate: 256000 bytes/sec 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM Found project_init.xml for http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM Not using a proxy 11/8/2012 7:32:59 PM Suspending computation - initial delay 11/8/2012 7:34:39 PM World Community Grid Resetting project 11/8/2012 7:34:59 PM World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 11/8/2012 7:34:59 PM World Community Grid Requesting new tasks 11/8/2012 7:35:01 PM World Community Grid Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks     |
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courine
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I detached the project and re-attached. Runs now!
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