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New FreeBSD client, was working fine, now idle

Hello. I have been running the UD client for a while on a Windows desktop, but finally got around to getting the BOINC client installed on my MUCH more-powerful FreeBSD desktop. At first it was kicking errors but I figured it was because I didn't enable the Linux setting on the client... once I made that change in the Makefile and rebuilt BOINC, it seemed to connect to my account fine and churn right along.

However, when I woke up this morning, it was idle. I participate in all projects except AfricanClimate so I couldn't imagine I ran out of work. On the Tasks tab in the Advanced view on BOINC Manager, I see 2 tasks for Human Proteome Folding at 100% completion. I imagine those were the two running when I went to bed (dual-core CPU). However there are 8 other tasks for other projects that don't show that they've even started.

So why is my client sitting idle?

The process is still running:


desktop# ps -ax | grep boinc
55968  ??  S      0:08.98 boinc_gui
37407  p0  S      0:09.09 /usr/local/bin/boinc_client -dir /var/db/boinc

Since you always seem to want to see the messages list, here's mine:


Thu Nov 15 03:07:33 2007|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Finished download of file faah2674_ZINC00089786_xmd04800_00_faah2674_ZINC00089786_xmd04800_00.dpf
Thu Nov 15 03:07:33 2007|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Throughput 618 bytes/sec
Thu Nov 15 03:07:33 2007|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Finished download of file faah2674_ZINC00089786_xmd04800_00_xmd04800.pdbqt
Thu Nov 15 03:07:33 2007|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Throughput 16199 bytes/sec
Thu Nov 15 03:07:33 2007|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Started download of file faah2674_ZINC00089786_xmd04800_00_ZINC00089786_xmd04800_00.gpf
Thu Nov 15 03:07:33 2007|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Started download of file faah2674_ZINC00089786_xmd04800_00_AD4.1_bound.dat
Thu Nov 15 03:07:36 2007|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Finished download of file faah2674_ZINC00089786_xmd04800_00_ZINC00089786_xmd04800_00.gpf
Thu Nov 15 03:07:36 2007|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Throughput 233 bytes/sec
Thu Nov 15 03:07:36 2007|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Started download of file faah2674_ZINC00089786_xmd04800_00_ZINC00089786.pdbqt
Thu Nov 15 03:07:37 2007|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Finished download of file faah2674_ZINC00089786_xmd04800_00_AD4.1_bound.dat
Thu Nov 15 03:07:37 2007|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Throughput 1150 bytes/sec
Thu Nov 15 03:07:37 2007|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Finished download of file faah2674_ZINC00089786_xmd04800_00_ZINC00089786.pdbqt
Thu Nov 15 03:07:37 2007|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Throughput 750 bytes/sec

[Nov 15, 2007 3:32:29 PM]

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Re: New FreeBSD client, was working fine, now idle

Hi sremick,

those 8 files in the message log are parts of 1 task by the looks of the numbers and file extensions.

It you look in the BOINCmgr, Tasks tab, how many jobs show "Ready To Start"?

Are those 2 jobs still listed as 100% with the "Ready To Report" comment? If so, go to the Project tab, select WCG and hit the Update button in left margin, than check if in the Message tab if 2 Tasks are being reported and the entries in the Tasks tab clear. After the clearing, please repost all the new messages.

Also, visit the Result Status page on My Grid to check what the status is of the 2 completed jobs and advise.

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[Nov 15, 2007 4:00:25 PM]

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Re: New FreeBSD client, was working fine, now idle

Try
ps -ax | grep wcg

[Nov 15, 2007 4:16:33 PM]

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Re: New FreeBSD client, was working fine, now idle

those 8 files in the message log are parts of 1 task by the looks of the numbers and file extensions.

Yep. Sorry I didn't post more, but the forums were kicking me back MySQL errors when I tried to include the full message list. That is the tail end, though.

It you look in the BOINCmgr, Tasks tab, how many jobs show "Ready To Start"?

There are 7. I miscounted in my first post and said 8.

Are those 2 jobs still listed as 100% with the "Ready To Report" comment?

No. They are at 100% but still have a status of "Running"

Also, visit the Result Status page on My Grid to check what the status is of the 2 completed jobs and advise.

Here's what it says:


lj417_ 00015_ 13--  	desktop.sremick.net 	In Progress 	11/15/2007 04:05:09 	11/26/2007 03:53:12 	0.00 	0.0 / 0.0
lj417_ 00020_ 7--  	desktop.sremick.net 	In Progress 	11/15/2007 04:05:09 	11/26/2007 03:53:12 	0.00 	0.0 / 0.0

Try
ps -ax | grep wcg


desktop# ps -ax | grep wcg
37409  p0  SN   206:30.85 wcg_hpf2_rosetta_5.20_i686-pc-linux-gnu -abrelax -pro
37410  p0  SN     0:00.14 wcg_hpf2_rosetta_5.20_i686-pc-linux-gnu -abrelax -pro
37411  p0  SN     0:01.04 wcg_hpf2_rosetta_5.20_i686-pc-linux-gnu -abrelax -pro
37412  p0  SN   206:34.01 wcg_hpf2_rosetta_5.20_i686-pc-linux-gnu -abrelax -pro
37413  p0  SN     0:00.13 wcg_hpf2_rosetta_5.20_i686-pc-linux-gnu -abrelax -pro
37414  p0  SN     0:01.15 wcg_hpf2_rosetta_5.20_i686-pc-linux-gnu -abrelax -pro

[Nov 15, 2007 5:28:13 PM]

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Re: New FreeBSD client, was working fine, now idle

Hmm. That's not good.

Could this be the freezing HPF issue? sremick, you could try suspending and resuming the tasks, to see whether this is a known (but rare) issue.

Someone refresh my memory - which projects are "known good" on FreeBSD?

[Nov 15, 2007 6:17:27 PM]

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Re: New FreeBSD client, was working fine, now idle

Actually, WCG needs the "suspending / wait 30 seconds / resume" done in the "Projects" tab for that workaround to function on HPF2, if it's that.

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[Nov 15, 2007 6:58:44 PM]

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Re: New FreeBSD client, was working fine, now idle

Ok, I tried Suspend... wait a few mins... Resume from the Projects tab. That jostled it back to life.

However, all is still not well. Now, all my current tasks are giving "Computation error". This consists of 7 instances of Dengue and 1 of HCC.

Here's the tail end of messages:


Thu Nov 15 14:23:49 2007|World Community Grid|Computation for task dddt0201e0280_ZINC05638270-0000_00_1 finished
Thu Nov 15 14:23:49 2007|World Community Grid|Output file dddt0201e0280_ZINC05638270-0000_00_1_0 for task dddt0201e0280_ZINC05638270-0000_00_1 absent
Thu Nov 15 14:23:49 2007|World Community Grid|Output file dddt0201e0280_ZINC05638270-0000_00_1_1 for task dddt0201e0280_ZINC05638270-0000_00_1 absent
Thu Nov 15 14:23:50 2007|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Finished download of file dddt0201e0280_ZINC05490208-0000_00_0201.pdbqt
Thu Nov 15 14:23:50 2007|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Throughput 38540 bytes/sec
Thu Nov 15 14:23:51 2007|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Finished download of file X0000045890017200501212351_X0000045890017200501212351.jp2
Thu Nov 15 14:23:51 2007|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Throughput 44436 bytes/sec
Thu Nov 15 14:23:51 2007|World Community Grid|Starting dddt0201e0280_ZINC05490208-0000_00_0
Thu Nov 15 14:23:51 2007|World Community Grid|Starting task dddt0201e0280_ZINC05490208-0000_00_0 using dddt version 510
Thu Nov 15 14:23:52 2007|World Community Grid|Deferring communication for 11 min 19 sec
Thu Nov 15 14:23:52 2007|World Community Grid|Reason: Unrecoverable error for result dddt0201e0280_ZINC05490208-0000_00_0 (process exited with code 132 (0x84))
Thu Nov 15 14:23:52 2007|World Community Grid|Computation for task dddt0201e0280_ZINC05490208-0000_00_0 finished
Thu Nov 15 14:23:52 2007|World Community Grid|Output file dddt0201e0280_ZINC05490208-0000_00_0_0 for task dddt0201e0280_ZINC05490208-0000_00_0 absent
Thu Nov 15 14:23:52 2007|World Community Grid|Output file dddt0201e0280_ZINC05490208-0000_00_0_1 for task dddt0201e0280_ZINC05490208-0000_00_0 absent
Thu Nov 15 14:23:52 2007|World Community Grid|Starting X0000045890017200501212351_0
Thu Nov 15 14:23:52 2007|World Community Grid|Starting task X0000045890017200501212351_0 using hcc1 version 507
Thu Nov 15 14:23:53 2007|World Community Grid|Deferring communication for 38 min 29 sec
Thu Nov 15 14:23:53 2007|World Community Grid|Reason: Unrecoverable error for result X0000045890017200501212351_0 (process exited with code 132 (0x84))
Thu Nov 15 14:23:53 2007|World Community Grid|Computation for task X0000045890017200501212351_0 finished
Thu Nov 15 14:23:53 2007|World Community Grid|Output file X0000045890017200501212351_0_0 for task X0000045890017200501212351_0 absent

[Nov 15, 2007 7:36:05 PM]

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Re: New FreeBSD client, was working fine, now idle

Sorry about the flakiness. I think this sums up WCG's priorities well: http://boincstats.com/stats/host_os_stats.php?pr=wcg&st=0&or=2

I notice they are all failing immediately with the same error code. Do you know what it means?

Please will you disable DDDT and HCC in your preferences, so we can see whether this problem is project-specific.

[Nov 15, 2007 8:41:03 PM]

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I notice they are all failing immediately with the same error code. Do you know what it means?

Nope, sorry. That's why I'm here. ;)

Please will you disable DDDT and HCC in your preferences, so we can see whether this problem is project-specific.

Ok, did that, and aborted the DDDT and HCC tasks. Some proteome folding tasks rolled in and started crunching fine, with 2 active now, and 1 queued along with an AIDS task.

So something strange with DDDT and HCC tasks? But not Proteome folding? AIDS uncertain yet... haven't seen any try to start.

[Nov 15, 2007 9:34:41 PM]

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Re: New FreeBSD client, was working fine, now idle

oogled and in the whole of the BOINC computing realm found only one identical report and no one responding. The BOINC FAQ reports exit code 132 as the inability on non-windows systems to obtain the run time for a job, as in infinite.

ERR_GETRUSAGE -132

On non-Windows systems only:

BOINC wasn't able to get the running time for a given process.

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