Problems with Boinc Time
22 Jul 2008 7:23:22 UTC
Topic 193775
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Hi to everybody,
I'm a Debian Etch user using the Linux Boinc Manager. When I read the tab of Messages, I realise that the time Boinc is using is two hours later than the actual time. For setting up the computer clock, I use an Internet time server and UTC option.
The problem is that Boinc starts to compute only two hours after launching the manager. Meanwhile, the activities are suspended. Finally, when the actual time is that shown in the Boinc message tab, the program is finally triggered starting immediately to compute as though nothing had happened.
How can I solve this drawback?
Problems with Boinc Time
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That sounds very weird indeed, I never heard of this before. I assume
date
at the shell prompt displays the correct local time?
The problem you describe is consistently happening?
CU
Bikeman
BOINC doesn't use its own
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BOINC doesn't use its own clocks, it will use the time used by the OS.
So just to check something, when you go to your preferences, what is set for:
"Suspend work while computer is in use?"
"'In use' means mouse/keyboard activity in last x minutes"
and
"Suspend work if no mouse/keyboard activity in last x minutes" ??
Do you by chance use BOINC Manager's local preferences?
Oh, my God, s it is very
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Oh, my God, s it is very usual in Computer Science, problems vanish without a reason.
I tried to solve the problem using a trick. I added two hours to the local time (that shown in KDE Desktop, not in the prompt). Thus, 9.00 became 11.00 and, as expected, the program started to compute.
Later, I decided to correct the clock time (I'm involved in other tasks, of course) and, suddenly, Linux crashed and my session was killed so I had to log in again. Once I launched BOINC manager, the problem went on.
However, when I restarted the computer, the problem was over. Thus, the BOIN manager immediately started to compute. I must say that the time shown in the message tab was... two hours less. I don't know why but, in any case, I don't mind since the program is working.
If new events occur, I'll inform you.