Account profile is incorrect, but Summary is fine
20 Jan 2006 22:17:13 UTC
Topic 190648
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If I log into http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/home.php and use my one and only email and pass, I do not see any computers listed and no credit/pending. I also notice that my account number is 119107
However, if I go to my Summary from the BOINC Manager, the comptuers and credits show up. I also see that the BOINC Manager has me listed with account number 119108.
How do I fix this?
This all seemed to happen immediately after I deleted my cookies and stored passwords. Things were cool up until then.
Thanks,
Account profile is incorrect, but Summary is fine
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Log out from the link down on home.php, then login again using the key you find in the file "account_einstein.phys.uwm.edu.xml" (BOINC directory, open with a plain text editor like vim, Notepad or so), those 16 hex characters (0-9,A-F) between the authenticator tags.
As this authenticator is unique and your PC is attached to 119108 with the key, it should attach your web browser to 119108 too.
Then just forget 119107, maybe some day the system will forget it too (if they clean up dead accounts)
After beeing logged in as 119108, it should allow you to set a new password and/or fix the email if it isn't OK.
RE: Log out from the link
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Outstanding! It works. Thanks, Ananas!
Never Ascribe To Malice That Which Is Explained By Stupidity
It appears that the whole
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It appears that the whole problem was due to my setting up two accounts, though I never remember doing so and deleting the Einstein greeting email for the account that I am now posting with.
When I tossed my cookies I went back to my email to find my account number. This belonged to the unused "animal" account and not the correct "animal" account.
Moral of the story: Don't set up multiple accounts and forget you did so.
Never Ascribe To Malice That Which Is Explained By Stupidity
RE: Then just forget
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Do/Did they clean up old accounts in other projects (eg. Seti)?
RE: RE: Then just forget
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Seti has never, to my knowledge, ever deleted an account. My speculation is because it's good numbers for grant purposals, etc. Plus it shows accountability.
RE: RE: Then just forget
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Einstein@Home has never cleaned up old or obsolete accounts. I must admit that it would be tempting to do, since the growing size of the database will otherwise be problematic. Probably the right thing to do would be to also clean up (delete) old hosts (which have not contacted E@H in a long time). But any serious thought about this will probably not take place until we HAVE to do it!
Director, Einstein@Home
RE: Einstein@Home has never
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Personally I have no problem with cleaning, as long as you do not clean any host/user having credits. In the last month I removed a few users having zero credits *and* a bouncing email address from the team.
RE: Einstein@Home has never
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Bruce, what about database compression? Seti has had to do this recently, and it speed backend processes a lot. I am sure your backend processes are fine, but if you are proactive, it may help in the long run.
RE: RE: Einstein@Home has
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A few days ago we got a note from Robert Bankay, the SETI@home database expert, with some advice about this exact point. I suspect that our DB does not have too many 'holes' but this 'defragmentation' might well help. So we'll try it sometime soon.
Cheers,
Bruce
Director, Einstein@Home
I don't know much about MySQL
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I don't know much about MySQL but for Informix it's good for the performance to adjust the extent sizes now and then, i.e. try to fit as much as possible into the first extent and choose the next extent size so it doesn't have to deal with a zillion tiny extents.
Exporting, deleting, re-creating and importing a table is often faster than a garbage collection btw.