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John Davis
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27 May 2009 12:19:47 UTC
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    One of my computers has problems running Einstein at Home. The WUs assigned to it all reported "client error". In the simple view on BOINC manager the message is displayed
    ERROR
    No work available to process

    I have uninstalled/installed - reset, update, etc. in attempts to get this computer running Einstein at Home but to no avail. Any suggestions? (its a Windows XP Desktop). This computer had been running ok on this project (for weeks). It just stopped working last night.

    Jord
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    Error - no work availble

    28 May 2009 10:33:06 UTC
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      You have the following message:

      too many exit(0)s

      You can look that one up in this FAQ, also to see what you can possibly do about it.

      Gundolf Jahn
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      Do you thottle your CPU on

      28 May 2009 10:38:02 UTC
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        Do you thottle your CPU on this PC? Because you are getting Exit status -226 (0xffffffffffffff1e) "too many exit(0)s".

        AV scans also tend to produce this kind of error. So, did you exclude the BOINC folders from scanning?

        Gruß,
        Gundolf
        [edit] spent too much time with searching for the FAQ entry :-) [/edit]

        Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

        John Davis
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        RE: Do you thottle your CPU

        31 May 2009 17:48:40 UTC
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          Quote:

          Do you thottle your CPU on this PC? Because you are getting Exit status -226 (0xffffffffffffff1e) "too many exit(0)s".

          AV scans also tend to produce this kind of error. So, did you exclude the BOINC folders from scanning?

          Gruß,
          Gundolf
          [edit] spent too much time with searching for the FAQ entry :-) [/edit]

          Gundolf,

          I am not throttling. Its set to use no more than 100% CPU. I have BOINC folder excluded from both on-demand and realtime AV scans. I have reinstalled Einstein@Home/BOINC, detached from the project, re-attached to the project, suspended the project, resume the project. Nothing seems to help. I just get "error - no work available". My other 4 computers are happily crunching Einstein@Home but this computer (Windows XP) just refuses to get started.

          Gundolf Jahn
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          You didn't confirm if the

          31 May 2009 18:20:38 UTC
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            You didn't confirm if the link did point to the right computer (1935266).

            You are looking at the wrong error message:31/05/2009 02:52:04|Einstein@Home|Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)is (erroneously) shown to everyone, though tasks are delivered.

            I would expect something like "daily quota exceeded" in your case.

            The tasks you received since my first answer didn't error out but were aborted, so I can't tell if they suffer from the same problem (too many exit(0)s).

            You should leave that computer alone until at least one task has finished of its own, so that we can analyze the stderr output on the website after it's uploaded and reported.

            Gruß,
            Gundolf

            Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

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            RE: You didn't confirm if

            1 Jun 2009 2:31:53 UTC
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              Quote:

              You didn't confirm if the link did point to the right computer (1935266).

              You are looking at the wrong error message:31/05/2009 02:52:04|Einstein@Home|Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)is (erroneously) shown to everyone, though tasks are delivered.

              I would expect something like "daily quota exceeded" in your case.

              The tasks you received since my first answer didn't error out but were aborted, so I can't tell if they suffer from the same problem (too many exit(0)s).

              You should leave that computer alone until at least one task has finished of its own, so that we can analyze the stderr output on the website after it's uploaded and reported.

              Gruß,
              Gundolf

              Gundolf,

              I checked the link and can confirm that it is the computer in question.
              Tomorrow I'll start it up again and let it alone for a couple of hours.
              Maybe this will yield some diagnostic material even though the GUI does not indicate that any WUs get started.

              John Davis
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              RE: RE: You didn't

              7 Jun 2009 19:03:05 UTC
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                Quote:
                Quote:

                You didn't confirm if the link did point to the right computer (1935266).

                You are looking at the wrong error message:31/05/2009 02:52:04|Einstein@Home|Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)is (erroneously) shown to everyone, though tasks are delivered.

                I would expect something like "daily quota exceeded" in your case.

                The tasks you received since my first answer didn't error out but were aborted, so I can't tell if they suffer from the same problem (too many exit(0)s).

                You should leave that computer alone until at least one task has finished of its own, so that we can analyze the stderr output on the website after it's uploaded and reported.

                Gruß,
                Gundolf

                Gundolf,

                I have left this computer alone for over a week. I am running BOINC and attached to Einstein at Home. I see no evidence of WUs running and have the error message referred to earlier on display in the BOINC client. Are there any error messages in the log which could explain how to fix this problem?

                Gundolf,

                I checked the link and can confirm that it is the computer in question.
                Tomorrow I'll start it up again and let it alone for a couple of hours.
                Maybe this will yield some diagnostic material even though the GUI does not indicate that any WUs get started.


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                RE: Gundolf, I have

                7 Jun 2009 20:56:19 UTC
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                  Quote:

                  Gundolf,

                  I have left this computer alone for over a week. I am running BOINC and attached to Einstein at Home. I see no evidence of WUs running and have the error message referred to earlier on display in the BOINC client. Are there any error messages in the log which could explain how to fix this problem?


                  I can't see your Message log. I only can see the tasks assigned to your computer(s). There is one listed as running, but since you say there are none, that might be a ghost unit.

                  When did the computer last connect to Einstein?
                  What happens if you press the Update button in the Projects folder?
                  Is Einstein (inadvertantly) suspended? (Check the Status column in Project tab)
                  Is Network activity enabled?

                  Best you reboot the machine and post the first lines of the Message tab here, including an Update attempt.

                  Gruß,
                  Gundolf

                  Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

                  John Davis
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                  RE: RE: Gundolf, I

                  8 Jun 2009 1:09:08 UTC
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                    Gundolf,

                    I have left this computer alone for over a week. I am running BOINC and attached to Einstein at Home. I see no evidence of WUs running and have the error message referred to earlier on display in the BOINC client. Are there any error messages in the log which could explain how to fix this problem?


                    I can't see your Message log. I only can see the tasks assigned to your computer(s). There is one listed as running, but since you say there are none, that might be a ghost unit.

                    When did the computer last connect to Einstein?
                    What happens if you press the Update button in the Projects folder?
                    Is Einstein (inadvertantly) suspended? (Check the Status column in Project tab)
                    Is Network activity enabled?

                    Best you reboot the machine and post the first lines of the Message tab here, including an Update attempt.

                    Gruß,
                    Gundolf

                    Status was in a loop. Communications deferred with a 60 seconds countdown. Then a scheduler request, then back to communications deferred.

                    I tried an update but this behavior continued.

                    I did a reboot.

                    Now I think it has actually started working.

                    the message log:

                    6/7/2009 9:00:17 PM||Starting BOINC client version 6.6.28 for windows_intelx86
                    6/7/2009 9:00:17 PM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
                    6/7/2009 9:00:17 PM||Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8j zlib/1.2.3
                    6/7/2009 9:00:17 PM||Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
                    6/7/2009 9:00:17 PM||Running under account Owner
                    6/7/2009 9:00:20 PM||Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.93GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4]
                    6/7/2009 9:00:20 PM||Processor features: fpu tsc sse sse2 mmx
                    6/7/2009 9:00:20 PM||OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Home x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
                    6/7/2009 9:00:20 PM||Memory: 502.73 MB physical, 1.20 GB virtual
                    6/7/2009 9:00:20 PM||Disk: 74.53 GB total, 47.03 GB free
                    6/7/2009 9:00:20 PM||Local time is UTC -4 hours
                    6/7/2009 9:00:21 PM||No CUDA devices found
                    6/7/2009 9:00:21 PM||No coprocessors
                    6/7/2009 9:00:22 PM||Not using a proxy
                    6/7/2009 9:00:23 PM|Einstein@Home|URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID: 1935266; location: (none); project prefs: default
                    6/7/2009 9:00:24 PM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
                    6/7/2009 9:00:24 PM||Reading preferences override file
                    6/7/2009 9:00:24 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 251.37MB
                    6/7/2009 9:00:24 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 452.46MB
                    6/7/2009 9:00:24 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 10.00GB
                    6/7/2009 9:00:27 PM|Einstein@Home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
                    6/7/2009 9:00:27 PM|Einstein@Home|Requesting new tasks
                    6/7/2009 9:00:45 PM|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
                    6/7/2009 9:00:45 PM|Einstein@Home|Message from server: No work sent
                    6/7/2009 9:00:45 PM|Einstein@Home|Message from server: No work is available for Hierarchical all-sky pulsar search
                    6/7/2009 9:00:45 PM|Einstein@Home|Message from server: No work is available for Hierarchical S5 all-sky GW search #5
                    6/7/2009 9:00:45 PM|Einstein@Home|Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your settings on the web site.
                    6/7/2009 9:02:07 PM|Einstein@Home|update requested by user
                    6/7/2009 9:02:10 PM|Einstein@Home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
                    6/7/2009 9:02:10 PM|Einstein@Home|Requesting new tasks
                    6/7/2009 9:02:15 PM|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
                    6/7/2009 9:02:15 PM|Einstein@Home|Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)
                    6/7/2009 9:02:18 PM|Einstein@Home|Started download of skygrid_0750Hz_S5R5.dat
                    6/7/2009 9:02:21 PM|Einstein@Home|update requested by user
                    6/7/2009 9:02:23 PM|Einstein@Home|Finished download of skygrid_0750Hz_S5R5.dat
                    6/7/2009 9:02:24 PM|Einstein@Home|Starting h1_0744.15_S5R4__618_S5R5a_0
                    6/7/2009 9:03:47 PM|Einstein@Home|Starting task h1_0744.15_S5R4__618_S5R5a_0 using einstein_S5R5 version 305
                    6/7/2009 9:03:48 PM|Einstein@Home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
                    6/7/2009 9:03:48 PM|Einstein@Home|Not reporting or requesting tasks
                    6/7/2009 9:03:53 PM|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks

                    Gundolf Jahn
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                    Yep, the reboot seems to have

                    8 Jun 2009 9:45:02 UTC
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                      Yep, the reboot seems to have done it:

                      Quote:
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                      6/7/2009 9:02:15 PM|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
                      ...

                      Now to wait for the result. :-)

                      Gruß,
                      Gundolf

                      Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

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