Validate error - What this really means!

Nigel Garvey
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268113640 (Also three

268113640

(Also three others over the Christmas/New Year period, but they've gone now and I didn't keep their numbers.)

NG

NG

djmotiska
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Yet another validation error:

Yet another validation error: 114226765

Edit: these WU's also seem to be problematic:
113808399
113820327
114023313

bahndamm_net-boincers
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All my Linux-boxes are

All my Linux-boxes are frequently subject to an immediate "valid error" upon delivery in "Gamma-ray pulsar search #1 v0.23".

Other projects of Einstein@Home or other Boinc-Projects on the same machine are not affected.

One of it, an AMD Athlon 4850e, has this:
113232341

The other one, a VIA C7, ended up with this one:
114394240

Both are running Debian, but different releases. If this is continuing, I might need to drop Gamma-ray from my participation list...

Sid
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Add the very next Gamma-ray

Add the very next Gamma-ray of my VIA C7 to the list:

114217095

Betreger
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Here are two, 114469003,

Here are two, 114469003, 114463210 and both had validate errors on another host also.

Logforme
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Didn't use to get validation

Didn't use to get validation errors. Now I have some almost every day. By the looks of it it's WUs that noone can process. Might want to look into if there is something wrong with the creation of the WUs.
http://einsteinathome.org/account/tasks&offset=0&show_names=0&state=4

Gary Roberts
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RE: 268113640 Just like

Quote:
268113640


Just like some previous ones of yours, the more detailed info about that one is

Validate error [6] (00000010)
- result file has entries that aren't numbers


Cheers,
Gary.

Gary Roberts
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RE: Yet another validation

Quote:

Yet another validation error: 114226765

Edit: these WU's also seem to be problematic:
113808399
113820327
114023313


As explained right at the end of the opening post in this thread, if you want a 'validate error' investigated, you need to supply a TaskID and NOT a WU ID. I'm not using any of the stuff that you can already browse so links are not useful - just the raw TaskID.

For the first WU ID you listed, I grabbed the TaskID and dug out the reasons why the validator classed your result as a 'validate error'. The reasons were

Validate error [6] (00001010)
- result file has entries that aren't numbers
- a number is out of valid range for this result

I also looked into the other WU IDs you listed. Yes, there are 'validate errors' for each quorum but no indication (yet) that the workunit itself is to blame since each quorum has successfully completed results, along with, usually, a single validate error. If you got several validate errors and hardly any completed results, you could blame that on a problematic WU. There are occasional examples of these but the ones you listed don't seem to be in that category.

Cheers,
Gary.

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