HELP: Suspending network activity - user request

Check your Preferences on Network Activity.  Toggle to Run Always instead of running on Preferences.

Make sure you haven't put any limits on the network use in the Computing Preferences.

First of all, thanks for posting the full set of startup messages.  Your computers are hidden, so without that information it's rather difficult to guess what might be going on.

I used the computer ID listed above to get some basic information.  The host details page shows that this ID was created on 16th Nov (12:28:48 UTC to be precise) and last contacted the server on 17th Nov.  There is also a link there to the tasks list for that ID.  There are 5 tasks listed, the first of which has been completed and validated well before the current ID was created.  In other words, you must have done something to cause an earlier ID to be trashed and a replacement ID to be created for this particular machine.

In fact, the first 3 tasks in the current list were all sent to that earlier computer ID since they all pre-date the creation of the current computer ID.

The current ID was created at precisely the same time as the 4th task was sent.  About 6 hours after that, (and for some unknown reason) something must have happened on your machine (perhaps earlier sometime in that 6 hour window) to cause those two tasks to 'vanish' in some way so that a report from your machine to the scheduler caused the scheduler to give them a status of "Timed out - no response".  (EDIT: In the time it took to compose this message, one of those two has now been removed from the online database.  The original 5 tasks that were there when I started has been reduced to 4.  They don't remain there for very long so problems need to be reported promptly in case the 'evidence' vanishes :-). )

That is a very unusual status.  Those tasks certainly haven't exceeded the deadline (so shouldn't be timed out) and I have no idea what may have happened to cause that.  They were created earlier on 16th Nov and the new ID had them at 12:22:48 UTC but by 18:38:57 UTC on that same day, the scheduler had given them that unusual status.

The other source of information is what was sent back in the scheduler log which you can always find by clicking the 'last contact' link on the host details page that I linked above.  That last contact is dated at 17 Nov 2020 19:59:34 UTC and shows that the host was NOT asking for CPU work but was asking for 30240 secs (0.35 days) of GPU work.  As a side note, your old GTX 260 GPU doesn't have sufficient memory to ever be allowed to fetch any GPU tasks so you should disable the GPU searches in your preferences (or get a more capable GPU if you wish to crunch GPU tasks).

Since your startup messages above are dated around 5 days after that last contact log, it seems likely that you must have set up the sort of preference change that Keith has mentioned some time after the last contact which has prevented any further contact with the project.  It's also very suspicious that the BOINC startup detects 0 project files.  There should be a large number of these.

There are 3 settings for controlling how BOINC is allowed to use the network - 'never', 'always', and 'by preferences'.  You must have it set either to 'never' or perhaps you have it 'by preferences' with those time of day preferences set to exclude BOINC from using the network at all times of day.

All of the above points to something drastic happening on your machine that caused the creation of a new host ID and damaged some of the tasks that were there.  Only you can say what exactly happened and what you were doing at the time to cause it.

Since you have virtually no tasks anyway, perhaps the easiest solution is to detach from the project, uninstall BOINC, do a fresh clean install, carefully review your required preference settings and then attach to Einstein once again.  After that, if you want to make changes, please ask for advice if you're not completely sure of what might happen.

EDIT #2: When did you decide to use BAM?  Is it possible that the strange things listed above resulted from deciding to use BAM?  How many computers and how many projects do you support?  Because we only know about one computer (ID: 12857894) we only see reference in the startup messages to one project - Einstein.  I know nothing about BAM (or any account managers for that matter) but my impression was that you might use BAM to manage multiple computers over multiple projects.  If you made your computers visible, it would be much easier to understand all things that might be going on.

Your computers page ( https://einsteinathome.org/account/296123/computers ) shows only this for us at the moment:

"Computers hidden
This user has chosen not to show information about their computers."

https://einsteinathome.org/account/prefs/privacy

"Should Einstein@Home show your computers on its website?:"

If you change that setting from NO the YES we would see exactly that same stuff that your previous post shows. It would just make it easier.

Great!

I want to correct my previous statement of saying "exactly that same stuff". Only you can see the NAME and LOCATION for your computers on that page. That's why it's better to use COMPUTER IDs than names if we want to point to a specific computer.