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boinccmd change: not telling if uninitalized task is suspended via GUI

Yesterday I installed this new version of the BOINC client and manager:
$ rpm -qa boinc*
boinc-client-7.9.2-3.fc27.x86_64
boinc-manager-7.9.2-3.fc27.x86_64


This morning I suspended the 13th workunit in the queue - it wasn't running yet (0.000%) - via the GUI and looked at the output of:

$ boinccmd --get_tasks
[snip]...[/snip]
12) -----------
name: OET1_0005374_x4O6HchA_rig_33373_0
WU name: OET1_0005374_x4O6HchA_rig_33373
project URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
received: Wed Mar 7 06:16:47 2018
report deadline: Sat Mar 17 06:16:47 2018
ready to report: no
state: downloaded
scheduler state: scheduled
active_task_state: EXECUTING
app version num: 719
resources: 1 CPU
CPU time at last checkpoint: 0.000000
current CPU time: 74.029910
estimated CPU time remaining: 2681.928658
fraction done: 0.027645
swap size: 119 MB
working set size: 46 MB
suspended via GUI: no
13) -----------
name: OET1_0005374_x4O6HchA_rig_32755_0
WU name: OET1_0005374_x4O6HchA_rig_32755
project URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
received: Wed Mar 7 06:20:58 2018
report deadline: Sat Mar 17 06:20:58 2018
ready to report: no
state: downloaded
scheduler state: uninitialized
active_task_state: UNINITIALIZED
app version num: 0
resources: 1 CPU

14) -----------
name: OET1_0005374_x4O6HchA_rig_34307_0
WU name: OET1_0005374_x4O6HchA_rig_34307
project URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
[snip]...[/snip]

Problem:
The line "suspended via GUI:" has been removed for workunits that aren't running yet! (*)
This means that you cannot tell anymore if a workunit that isn't running yet has been suspended via the GUI!
This also means that you cannot tell from 'boinccmd' which workunits have been suspended in order to unsuspend them - without a GUI.

Conclusion:
* if you suspend a not-running-yet workunit via 'boinccmd'
- you cannot tell which workunit has been suspended via 'boinccmd'
- you cannot tell which workunit has been suspended without a GUI.

I would gladly like to have this fixed!

  • I can understand that one wouldn't want to see these lines:
    - CPU time at last checkpoint:
    - current CPU time:
    - estimated CPU time remaining:
    - fraction done:
    - swap size:
    - working set size:
    for not-running-yet workunits, but I think one line too many has been removed:
    - suspended via GUI:

    EDIT: changed "woouldn't" into "wouldn't"
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    Re: boinccmd change: not telling if uninitalized task is suspended via GUI

    Has this been reported to the distribution or repository maintainer? Not much WCG can do about it.
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    Re: boinccmd change: not telling if uninitalized task is suspended via GUI

    7.9.x is also a Beta version. 7.x where the x is an even # are production recommended releases.
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    Re: boinccmd change: not telling if uninitalized task is suspended via GUI

    Thank you guys.

    @Doneske:
    In any case not reported by me so far, because I wanted to see if someone would be correcting me if I had been overlooking something, or if more people were agreeing that this is not good. I can't find this problem (looking for "boinc suspended") on Bugzilla. Where can I check or report? Answer:
    $ rpm -qi boinc-client | grep URL
    URL : http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
    Bug URL : https://bugz.fedoraproject.org/boinc-client

    @mmonnin:
    I'm not used to refuse upgrades ($ dnf up) whenever I see an odd-numbered version.
    Are you sure it is a beta?
    Nothing is mentioning a beta version here:
    $ rpm -q --changes boinc-client
    * 2018-02-23T13:00:00 CET Germano Massullo <germano.massullo@gmail.com> - 7.9.2-3
    - added macros to use mariadb-connector-c instead of mysql-* only for Fedora > 26

    * 2018-02-19T13:00:00 CET Germano Massullo <germano.massullo@gmail.com> - 7.9.2-2
    - Use mariadb-connector-c instead of mysql-libs or mariadb-libs. See bugreport #1494241

    * 2018-02-19T13:00:00 CET Laurence Field <laurence.field@cern.ch> - 7.9.2-1
    - New BONC client version 7.9.2

    * 2018-02-07T13:00:00 CET Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 7.8.4-5
    - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild

    * 2018-02-02T13:00:00 CET Germano Massullo <germano.massullo@gmail.com> - 7.8.4-4
    - systemd unit file: changed from Type=forking to Type=simple and removed --daemon --start_delay 1 from ExecStart

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    Re: boinccmd change: not telling if uninitalized task is suspended via GUI

    Submitted bz#1553840.
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