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If you're on Android, it

29 May 2020 13:45:40 UTC
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    If you're on Android, it won't work. However, if you're using a PC, I use 7.16.5 which works for downloading. However, are you having issues uploading?

     

    Sometimes I have trouble connecting to servers. When that happens, I click tasks -> 'show active tasks' and pause and click again to 'show all tasks', pause and repeat until it connects to the server. That happens anytime I reopen it and it disconnects from the server.

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    If with "you" you mean the

    29 May 2020 14:11:38 UTC
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      If with "you" you mean the E@H project, then no, we are not aware of any server-side issues affecting uploads.

      Oliver

      Einstein@Home Project

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      pvh wrote: I have upgraded

      29 May 2020 14:13:53 UTC
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        pvh wrote:

        I have upgraded my client to version 7.16.6, but I still cannot connect to the servers.

        Please provide some log output. That should help find out what's wrong. It should be unrelated to the matters discussed here, though.

        Oliver

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        Mike Davies
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        I too am having problems.

        29 May 2020 17:43:22 UTC
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          I too am having problems. This is the boinc client as currently available in the Android Playstore which is version 7.4.53. Looks like the problem is with CA certificates.

          Einstein says my computer last connected a few days ago. I've been trying to send a result for several days. Fortunately I still have a little work to do.

          Last time contacted server: 25 May 2020 21:37:33 UTC

          My log looks like this...

          Client Messages

          Fri May 29 18:12:25 GMT+01:00 2020||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
          Fri May 29 18:12:24 GMT+01:00 2020||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
          Fri May 29 18:12:23 GMT+01:00 2020|Einstein@Home|Fetching scheduler list
          Fri May 29 18:10:43 GMT+01:00 2020||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
          Fri May 29 18:10:42 GMT+01:00 2020|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request failed: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates
          Fri May 29 18:10:42 GMT+01:00 2020||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
          Fri May 29 18:10:41 GMT+01:00 2020|Einstein@Home|Not requesting tasks: don't need (job cache full)
          Fri May 29 18:10:41 GMT+01:00 2020|Einstein@Home|Reporting 1 completed tasks
          Fri May 29 18:10:41 GMT+01:00 2020|Einstein@Home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
          Fri May 29 18:10:40 GMT+01:00 2020|Einstein@Home|update requested by user
          Fri May 29 18:10:30 GMT+01:00 2020||Resuming network activity
          Fri May 29 18:07:50 GMT+01:00 2020||Suspending network activity - not connected to WiFi network
          Fri May 29 18:07:50 GMT+01:00 2020||Suspending computation - on batteries
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Not using a proxy
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||(to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 70%
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||don't use GPU while active
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||don't compute while active
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||max CPUs used: 1
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||max disk usage: 2.89GB
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||max memory usage when idle: 1419.26MB
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||max memory usage when active: 887.04MB
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Preferences:
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Reading preferences override file
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020|Einstein@Home|URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 12595425; resource share 100
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Config: report completed tasks immediately
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Local time is UTC +1 hours
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Disk: 11.57 GB total, 3.85 GB free
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Memory: 1.73 GB physical, 512.00 MB virtual
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||OS: Android: 3.4.0-perf-gc14c2d5
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Processor features: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Using 2 CPUs
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Processor: 4 ARM ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l)
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Host name: android_b1b28d9f
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||No usable GPUs found
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Data directory: /data/data/edu.berkeley.boinc/client
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Running as a daemon
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Libraries: libcurl/7.48.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
          Fri May 29 18:07:48 GMT+01:00 2020||Starting BOINC client version 7.4.53 for arm-android-linux-gnu

           

          I must say none of my other computers are having problems. Just this android phone which is trying to send a result before the cut off of 31st May 2020 08:11:17.

           

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          As requested, here is the log

          29 May 2020 19:33:39 UTC
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            As requested, here is the log out

            2020-05-29T21:28:38 CEST | Einstein@Home | update requested by user
            2020-05-29T21:28:41 CEST | Einstein@Home | Fetching scheduler list
            2020-05-29T21:28:43 CEST |  | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
            2020-05-29T21:28:46 CEST |  | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.


            So the same as Mike Davies. This is on openSUSE linux 15.1 and the 7.16.6 client. I have a ton of WUs sitting "ready to report" but cannot report them...

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            pvh wrote: As requested,

            29 May 2020 20:39:32 UTC
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              pvh wrote:

              As requested, here is the log out

              2020-05-29T21:28:38 CEST | Einstein@Home | update requested by user
              2020-05-29T21:28:41 CEST | Einstein@Home | Fetching scheduler list
              2020-05-29T21:28:43 CEST |  | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
              2020-05-29T21:28:46 CEST |  | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.


              So the same as Mike Davies. This is on openSUSE linux 15.1 and the 7.16.6 client. I have a ton of WUs sitting "ready to report" but cannot report them... 

              Thisis your problem:

              "BOINC client version:7.8.3"

              • Minimum BOINC version as of Nov. 27th 2019: 7.4.36
              • Minimum BOINC version as of May  25th 2020: 7.10

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              Keith Myers wrote:  You can

              29 May 2020 20:49:49 UTC
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                Keith Myers wrote:
                  You can add the BOINC ppa managed by Gianfranco Costamagna at his ppa.  Gianfranco Costamagna - BOINC ppa

                That ppa worked with Synaptic to show the latest version of Boinc and it worked great thanks!! My question is I installed Boinc 7.9.3

                   

                on several other Linux Mint machines and now want to update it, is it as simple as adding the ppa and then searching for Boinc and the package manager will remove the old version and install the new selected version?

                As a work around I could clone the drive and then swap them into each machine to get the updated client but that's alot of work for me as I now have 6 or 7, out of 18 total, pc's  running Linux Mint.

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                mikey wrote: Thisis your

                29 May 2020 21:57:35 UTC
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                  mikey wrote:

                  Thisis your problem:

                  "BOINC client version:7.8.3"

                  • Minimum BOINC version as of Nov. 27th 2019: 7.4.36
                  • Minimum BOINC version as of May  25th 2020: 7.10

                  My old client was version 7.8.3, but as I already stated, I have version 7.16.6 now:

                  % ./boinc --version
                  7.16.6 x86_64-suse-linux-gnu

                   

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                  pvh wrote: mikey

                  29 May 2020 22:11:26 UTC
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                    pvh wrote:

                    mikey wrote:

                    Thisis your problem:

                    "BOINC client version:7.8.3"

                    • Minimum BOINC version as of Nov. 27th 2019: 7.4.36
                    • Minimum BOINC version as of May  25th 2020: 7.10

                    My old client was version 7.8.3, but as I already stated, I have version 7.16.6 now:

                    % ./boinc --version
                    7.16.6 x86_64-suse-linux-gnu 

                    No idea but when I look at your pc's I see this:

                    COMPUTER ID RANK AVG. CREDIT TOTAL CREDIT BOINC VERSION CPU GPU OPERATING SYSTEM LAST CONTACT
                    ID: 8366240
                    Details | Tasks Cross-project stats:                     		 1 261,004.78 397,894,338 7.8.3 AuthenticAMD
                    AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core Processor [Family 23 Model 49 Stepping 0]
                    (64 processors)                    		 AMD AMD Radeon (TM) RX 480 Graphics (3750MB) Linux openSUSE Leap
                    openSUSE Leap 15.1 [4.12.14-lp151.28.48-default]                    		 26 May 2020 8:57:16 UTC
                    ID: 7558193
                    Details | Tasks
                    Cross-project stats:                     		 2 114,017.99 97,758,633 7.8.3 GenuineIntel
                    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 63 Stepping 2]
                    (32 processors)                    		 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (3014MB) driver: 390.11 Linux openSUSE Leap
                    openSUSE Leap 15.1 [4.12.14-lp151.28.48-default]                    		 25 May 2020 20:13:15 UTC
                    ID: 12473439
                    Details | Tasks
                    Cross-project stats:                     		 3 110,287.20 131,284,977 7.8.3

                     

                    Did you reboot after the update?

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                    Mike Davies wrote:I too am

                    30 May 2020 1:42:44 UTC
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                      Mike Davies wrote:
                      I too am having problems. This is the boinc client as currently available in the Android Playstore which is version 7.4.53. Looks like the problem is with CA certificates.

                      Yes, that's given in the event log as the real problem (5th line in what you posted).

                      If you have a more recent installation that is working, you could try copying the certificates file (ca-bundle.crt) from the BOINC data directory on the working machine and use it to replace the corresponding file on the non-working machine.  If you then restart BOINC, it should start working.

                      Cheers,
                      Gary.

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