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Message 2593 - Posted: 1 Sep 2004, 22:08:29 UTC

And another thing that boinc appears to have \'fixed\' (it wasn\'t broken before boinc came along): Twice now when rebooting a \'doze box, something I still feel the need to do every week or so as it speeds up the graphics a *lot*, explorer doesn\'t act so flakey (for a while), etc, boinc has trashed the current model and d/led a new one, creating a new account (in the boinc window anyway) at the same time. In all cases I have just detached the new (phantom, no account name) account and allowed the new model to continue (don\'t have much choice, the old model is lorst and gorn forever).
I am wondering about the number of fractionally completed models that I am collecting...
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Message 2599 - Posted: 1 Sep 2004, 22:57:22 UTC

How do you reboot? Do you stop BOINC before you reboot? For it could well be you're doing some disk-action at the time you reboot.
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Message 2634 - Posted: 2 Sep 2004, 3:50:26 UTC

No didn't stop, just start/turn off computer/restart, but would hope that when boinc (and every other running program) got the global shutdown message from 'doze it would do so elegantly. Might have to start manually shutting down boinc for such occasions. Funny, it wasn't a problem in classic CPDN.
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Message 3552 - Posted: 9 Sep 2004, 3:54:02 UTC

The local power company decided to have an unannounced outage that upon PC restart has left my climate prediction program sitting at 99+ hours, it says that it is running, but I havn't seen the CPU time move or have I seen S@H get any cycles since then. I hate to reset the project, but I don't see any alternative. Does anyone have any ideas?
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Message 3578 - Posted: 9 Sep 2004, 10:15:50 UTC

Sounds like the outage came just as a critical state file was being updated, RogerB. Sometimes BOINC will automatically error your running models, upload them and get new work. But this time it hasn't even managed that :(

Unless you have a recent full backup of your BOINC directory your only option is going to be project resets for CPDN and S@H.

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Message 3671 - Posted: 10 Sep 2004, 1:31:58 UTC - in response to Message 3578.  

&gt; Sounds like the outage came just as a critical state file was being updated,
&gt; RogerB. Sometimes BOINC will automatically error your running models, upload
&gt; them and get new work. But this time it hasn't even managed that :(
&gt;
&gt; Unless you have a recent full backup of your BOINC directory your only option
&gt; is going to be project resets for CPDN and S@H.
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If it is not already too late, you might try renaming client_state.xml to client_state.new. Then rename client_state.old as client_state.xml. Then start BOINC.
<a href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&amp;project=cpdn&amp;userid=13"><img border="0" height="80" src="http://13.cpdn.sig.boinc.dk?188"></a>
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Message 3736 - Posted: 10 Sep 2004, 14:09:55 UTC - in response to Message 3671.  

&gt; &gt; Sounds like the outage came just as a critical state file was being
&gt; updated,
&gt; &gt; RogerB. Sometimes BOINC will automatically error your running models,
&gt; upload
&gt; &gt; them and get new work. But this time it hasn't even managed that :(
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; Unless you have a recent full backup of your BOINC directory your only
&gt; option
&gt; &gt; is going to be project resets for CPDN and S@H.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; <a href="http://www.teampicard.net"><img>
&gt;
&gt; If it is not already too late, you might try renaming client_state.xml to
&gt; client_state.new. Then rename client_state.old as client_state.xml. Then
&gt; start BOINC.
&gt; <a> href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&amp;project=cpdn&amp;userid=13"&gt;<img> border="0" height="80" src="http://13.cpdn.sig.boinc.dk?188"&gt;</a>
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Thanks, I've already reset the projects, I'll try your suggestion next time they stall.
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