I have several systems running the latest boinc clients, including three old Sun UltraSPARC 5 workstations running Solaris 8 and various PCs and Intel servers running RedHat 9. The issue is that the clients have been running for a few weeks now, and only one of these machines shows any credit. Is anyone else having issues like this?

Here's all my BOINC-enabled systems:


Here's the last few days of output from "stepchild," an old IBM Netfinity server (dual Pentium-II Xeon @ 400MHz) running RedHat 9. You can clearly see numerous successful uploads and downloads:

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2004-10-07 21:47:08 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.09 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
2004-10-07 21:47:08 [SETI@home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for school; using your defaults
2004-10-07 21:47:08 [SETI@home] Host ID is 230799
2004-10-07 21:47:08 [---] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 2004-09-27 11:50:02)
2004-10-07 21:47:08 [---] General prefs: using separate prefs for school
2004-10-07 21:47:08 [SETI@home] Resuming computation for result 14mr04aa.17223.10626.42344.143_1 using setiathome version 4.02
2004-10-07 21:47:08 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 7 minutes and 57 seconds
2004-10-07 21:49:49 [---] Received signal 18
2004-10-07 21:49:49 [---] Received signal 15
2004-10-07 21:49:49 [---] Exit requested by user
2004-10-07 21:52:14 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.09 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
2004-10-07 21:52:14 [SETI@home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for school; using your defaults
2004-10-07 21:52:14 [SETI@home] Host ID is 230799
2004-10-07 21:52:14 [---] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 2004-09-27 11:50:02)
2004-10-07 21:52:14 [---] General prefs: using separate prefs for school
2004-10-07 21:52:14 [SETI@home] Resuming computation for result 14mr04aa.17223.10626.42344.143_1 using setiathome version 4.02
2004-10-07 22:08:26 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.09 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
2004-10-07 22:08:26 [SETI@home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for school; using your defaults
2004-10-07 22:08:26 [SETI@home] Host ID is 230799
2004-10-07 22:08:26 [---] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 2004-09-27 11:50:02)
2004-10-07 22:08:26 [---] General prefs: using separate prefs for school
2004-10-07 22:08:26 [SETI@home] Resuming computation for result 14mr04aa.17223.10626.42344.143_1 using setiathome version 4.02
2004-10-07 22:08:26 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-10-07 22:08:26 [SETI@home] Requesting 34560 seconds of work
2004-10-07 22:08:26 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-10-07 22:08:30 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-10-07 22:08:30 [SETI@home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for school; using your defaults
2004-10-07 22:08:30 [SETI@home] Started download of 14mr04aa.17223.10721.429814.155
2004-10-07 22:08:31 [SETI@home] Finished download of 14mr04aa.17223.10721.429814.155
2004-10-07 22:08:31 [SETI@home] Throughput 342136 bytes/sec
2004-10-07 22:08:31 [SETI@home] Starting result 14mr04aa.17223.10721.429814.155_1 using setiathome version 4.02
2004-10-07 22:25:55 [---] Received signal 18
2004-10-07 22:25:55 [---] Received signal 15
2004-10-07 22:25:56 [---] Exit requested by user
2004-10-07 22:28:18 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.09 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
2004-10-07 22:28:18 [SETI@home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for school; using your defaults
2004-10-07 22:28:18 [SETI@home] Host ID is 230799
2004-10-07 22:28:18 [---] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 2004-09-27 11:50:02)
2004-10-07 22:28:18 [---] General prefs: using separate prefs for school
2004-10-07 22:28:18 [SETI@home] Resuming computation for result 14mr04aa.17223.10626.42344.143_1 using setiathome version 4.02
2004-10-07 22:28:18 [SETI@home] Resuming computation for result 14mr04aa.17223.10721.429814.155_1 using setiathome version 4.02
2004-10-07 22:31:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-08 10:10:45 [SETI@home] Computation for result 14mr04aa.17223.10721.429814.155 finished
2004-10-08 10:10:45 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-10-08 10:10:45 [SETI@home] Requesting 34540 seconds of work
2004-10-08 10:10:45 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-10-08 10:10:45 [SETI@home] Started upload of 14mr04aa.17223.10721.429814.155_1_0
2004-10-08 10:10:58 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-10-08 10:10:58 [SETI@home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for school; using your defaults
2004-10-08 10:10:58 [SETI@home] Started download of 14mr04aa.17223.14786.461070.207
2004-10-08 14:11:50 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.09 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
2004-10-08 14:11:50 [SETI@home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for school; using your defaults
2004-10-08 14:11:50 [SETI@home] Host ID is 230799
2004-10-08 14:11:50 [---] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 2004-09-27 11:50:02)
2004-10-08 14:11:50 [---] General prefs: using separate prefs for school
2004-10-08 14:11:50 [SETI@home] Resuming computation for result 14mr04aa.17223.10626.42344.143_1 using setiathome version 4.02
2004-10-08 14:11:50 [SETI@home] Started upload of 14mr04aa.17223.10721.429814.155_1_0
2004-10-08 14:11:50 [SETI@home] Started download of 14mr04aa.17223.14786.461070.207
2004-10-08 14:12:11 [---] May run out of work in 0.10 days; requesting more
2004-10-08 14:12:11 [SETI@home] Requesting 17270 seconds of work
2004-10-08 14:12:11 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-10-08 14:12:22 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed
2004-10-08 14:12:22 [SETI@home] No schedulers responded
2004-10-08 14:12:22 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
2004-10-08 14:13:23 [---] May run out of work in 0.10 days; requesting more
2004-10-08 14:13:23 [SETI@home] Requesting 17380 seconds of work
2004-10-08 14:13:23 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-10-08 14:13:23 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed
2004-10-08 14:13:23 [SETI@home] No schedulers responded
2004-10-08 14:13:23 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
2004-10-08 14:14:24 [---] May run out of work in 0.10 days; requesting more
2004-10-08 14:14:24 [SETI@home] Requesting 17476 seconds of work
2004-10-08 14:14:24 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-10-08 14:14:24 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed
2004-10-08 14:14:24 [SETI@home] No schedulers responded
2004-10-08 14:14:24 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
2004-10-08 14:14:59 [SETI@home] Temporarily failed upload of 14mr04aa.17223.10721.429814.155_1_0
2004-10-08 14:14:59 [SETI@home] Backing off 1 minutes and 0 seconds on transfer of file 14mr04aa.17223.10721.429814.155_1_0
2004-10-08 14:14:59 [SETI@home] Giving up on download of 14mr04aa.17223.14786.461070.207: Downloaded file had wrong size: expected 361811, got 58760
2004-10-08 14:14:59 [SETI@home] MD5 computation error for 14mr04aa.17223.14786.461070.207: -108
2004-10-08 14:14:59 [SETI@home] Checksum or signature error for 14mr04aa.17223.14786.461070.207
2004-10-08 14:14:59 [SETI@home] Unrecoverable error for result 14mr04aa.17223.14786.461070.207_2 (WU download error: couldn't get input files:
14mr04aa.17223.14786.461070.207: MD5 computation error
)
2004-10-08 14:14:59 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
2004-10-08 14:15:59 [SETI@home] Started upload of 14mr04aa.17223.10721.429814.155_1_0
2004-10-08 14:16:00 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-10-08 14:16:00 [SETI@home] Requesting 34540 seconds of work
2004-10-08 14:16:00 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-10-08 14:16:00 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed
2004-10-08 14:16:00 [SETI@home] No schedulers responded
2004-10-08 14:16:00 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 2 minutes and 8 seconds
2004-10-08 14:16:00 [SETI@home] Error on file upload: file_upload_handler: no filename; nbytes 8355.000000
2004-10-08 14:16:00 [SETI@home] Permanently failed upload of 14mr04aa.17223.10721.429814.155_1_0
2004-10-08 14:16:00 [SETI@home] Giving up on upload of 14mr04aa.17223.10721.429814.155_1_0: server rejected file
2004-10-08 14:18:09 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-10-08 14:18:09 [SETI@home] Requesting 34540 seconds of work
2004-10-08 14:18:09 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-10-08 14:18:09 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed
2004-10-08 14:18:09 [SETI@home] No schedulers responded
2004-10-08 14:18:09 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 3 minutes and 56 seconds
2004-10-08 14:22:06 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-10-08 14:22:06 [SETI@home] Requesting 34540 seconds of work
2004-10-08 14:22:06 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-10-08 14:22:06 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed
2004-10-08 14:22:06 [SETI@home] No schedulers responded
2004-10-08 14:22:06 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 44 seconds
2004-10-08 14:23:51 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-10-08 14:23:51 [SETI@home] Requesting 34540 seconds of work
2004-10-08 14:23:51 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-10-08 14:23:51 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed
2004-10-08 14:23:51 [SETI@home] No schedulers responded
2004-10-08 14:23:51 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 37 minutes and 33 seconds
2004-10-08 15:01:25 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-10-08 15:01:25 [SETI@home] Requesting 34540 seconds of work
2004-10-08 15:01:25 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-10-08 15:01:25 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-10-08 15:01:25 [SETI@home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for school; using your defaults
2004-10-08 15:01:25 [SETI@home] Started download of 14mr04aa.17223.15600.47148.203
2004-10-08 15:01:25 [---] May run out of work in 0.10 days; requesting more
2004-10-08 15:01:25 [SETI@home] Requesting 21880 seconds of work
2004-10-08 15:01:25 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-10-08 15:01:26 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed
2004-10-08 15:01:26 [SETI@home] No schedulers responded
2004-10-08 15:01:26 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
2004-10-08 15:01:26 [SETI@home] Finished download of 14mr04aa.17223.15600.47148.203
2004-10-08 15:01:26 [SETI@home] Throughput 343318 bytes/sec
2004-10-08 15:01:26 [SETI@home] Starting result 14mr04aa.17223.15600.47148.203_0 using setiathome version 4.02
2004-10-08 15:02:27 [---] May run out of work in 0.10 days; requesting more
2004-10-08 15:02:27 [SETI@home] Requesting 21739 seconds of work
2004-10-08 15:02:27 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-10-08 15:02:27 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-10-08 15:02:27 [SETI@home] Message from server: Not sending work - last RPC too recent: 62 sec
2004-10-08 15:02:27 [SETI@home] No work from project
2004-10-08 15:02:27 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 10 minutes and 0 seconds
2004-10-08 15:12:28 [---] May run out of work in 0.10 days; requesting more
2004-10-08 15:12:28 [SETI@home] Requesting 22671 seconds of work
2004-10-08 15:12:28 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-10-08 15:12:44 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-10-08 15:12:44 [SETI@home] Started download of 14mr04aa.17223.15841.461070.5
2004-10-08 15:12:51 [SETI@home] Finished download of 14mr04aa.17223.15841.461070.5
2004-10-08 15:12:51 [SETI@home] Throughput 49227 bytes/sec
2004-10-08 17:08:36 [SETI@home] Computation for result 14mr04aa.17223.10626.42344.143 finished
2004-10-08 17:08:37 [SETI@home] Starting result 14mr04aa.17223.15841.461070.5_2 using setiathome version 4.02
2004-10-08 17:08:37 [SETI@home] Started upload of 14mr04aa.17223.10626.42344.143_1_0
2004-10-08 17:09:18 [SETI@home] Error on file upload: file_upload_handler: no filename; nbytes 9710.000000
2004-10-08 17:09:18 [SETI@home] Permanently failed upload of 14mr04aa.17223.10626.42344.143_1_0
2004-10-08 17:09:18 [SETI@home] Giving up on upload of 14mr04aa.17223.10626.42344.143_1_0: server rejected file
2004-10-08 17:09:54 [SETI@home] Result 14mr04aa.17223.15600.47148.203_0 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
2004-10-08 17:09:54 [SETI@home] If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project.
2004-10-08 17:09:54 [SETI@home] Restarting result 14mr04aa.17223.15600.47148.203_0 using setiathome version 4.02
2004-10-08 21:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-08 22:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-08 23:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 00:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 01:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 02:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 02:33:08 [---] May run out of work in 0.10 days; requesting more
2004-10-09 02:33:08 [SETI@home] Requesting 17159 seconds of work
2004-10-09 02:33:08 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-10-09 02:33:08 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-10-09 02:33:08 [SETI@home] Started download of 14mr04aa.17223.19441.604828.162
2004-10-09 02:33:09 [SETI@home] Finished download of 14mr04aa.17223.19441.604828.162
2004-10-09 02:33:09 [SETI@home] Throughput 402564 bytes/sec
2004-10-09 03:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 04:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 04:39:26 [---] May run out of work in 0.10 days; requesting more
2004-10-09 04:39:26 [SETI@home] Requesting 17157 seconds of work
2004-10-09 04:39:26 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-10-09 04:39:27 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-10-09 04:39:27 [SETI@home] Started download of 14mr04aa.17223.20386.329810.220
2004-10-09 04:39:28 [SETI@home] Finished download of 14mr04aa.17223.20386.329810.220
2004-10-09 04:39:28 [SETI@home] Throughput 358696 bytes/sec
2004-10-09 04:52:30 [SETI@home] Computation for result 14mr04aa.17223.15600.47148.203 finished
2004-10-09 04:52:30 [SETI@home] Starting result 14mr04aa.17223.19441.604828.162_2 using setiathome version 4.02
2004-10-09 04:52:30 [SETI@home] Started upload of 14mr04aa.17223.15600.47148.203_0_0
2004-10-09 04:52:32 [SETI@home] Finished upload of 14mr04aa.17223.15600.47148.203_0_0
2004-10-09 04:52:32 [SETI@home] Throughput 134931 bytes/sec
2004-10-09 05:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 06:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 06:51:27 [SETI@home] Computation for result 14mr04aa.17223.15841.461070.5 finished
2004-10-09 06:51:27 [SETI@home] Starting result 14mr04aa.17223.20386.329810.220_2 using setiathome version 4.02
2004-10-09 06:51:27 [SETI@home] Started upload of 14mr04aa.17223.15841.461070.5_2_0
2004-10-09 06:51:27 [SETI@home] Finished upload of 14mr04aa.17223.15841.461070.5_2_0
2004-10-09 06:51:27 [SETI@home] Throughput 55271 bytes/sec
2004-10-09 07:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 08:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 09:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 10:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 11:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 12:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 13:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 14:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 15:04:50 [---] May run out of work in 0.10 days; requesting more
2004-10-09 15:04:50 [SETI@home] Requesting 17162 seconds of work
2004-10-09 15:04:50 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-10-09 15:04:51 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-10-09 15:04:51 [SETI@home] Started download of 14mr04aa.17223.23506.654818.112
2004-10-09 15:04:52 [SETI@home] Finished download of 14mr04aa.17223.23506.654818.112
2004-10-09 15:04:52 [SETI@home] Throughput 390309 bytes/sec
2004-10-09 15:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 16:24:55 [SETI@home] Computation for result 14mr04aa.17223.19441.604828.162 finished
2004-10-09 16:24:55 [SETI@home] Starting result 14mr04aa.17223.23506.654818.112_0 using setiathome version 4.02
2004-10-09 16:24:55 [SETI@home] Started upload of 14mr04aa.17223.19441.604828.162_2_0
2004-10-09 16:24:56 [SETI@home] Finished upload of 14mr04aa.17223.19441.604828.162_2_0
2004-10-09 16:24:56 [SETI@home] Throughput 107589 bytes/sec
2004-10-09 16:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 17:30:00 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
2004-10-09 18:01:31 [---] May run out of work in 0.10 days; requesting more
2004-10-09 18:01:31 [SETI@home] Requesting 17160 seconds of work
2004-10-09 18:01:31 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-10-09 18:01:32 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-10-09 18:01:32 [SETI@home] Started download of 14mr04aa.17223.24418.611090.97
2004-10-09 18:01:33 [SETI@home] Finished download of 14mr04aa.17223.24418.611090.97
2004-10-09 18:01:33 [SETI@home] Throughput 383857 bytes/sec
2004-10-09 18:30:01 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
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Coupla problems here. Big problem:
[-snip-]
2004-10-08 17:08:37 [SETI@home] Started upload of 14mr04aa.17223.10626.42344.143_1_0
2004-10-08 17:09:18 [SETI@home] Error on file upload: file_upload_handler: no filename; nbytes 9710.000000
2004-10-08 17:09:18 [SETI@home] Permanently failed upload of 14mr04aa.17223.10626.42344.143_1_0
2004-10-08 17:09:18 [SETI@home] Giving up on upload of 14mr04aa.17223.10626.42344.143_1_0: server rejected file
[-snip-]

You need to download an install BOINC 4.12. Otherwise, this host will never upload successfully, ever again. Do the same for all of your Linux clients

- and -

Have you solved your multiple clients problem? e.g.,
[-snip-]
2004-10-09 18:30:01 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
[-snip-]

Only one to a customer, please! you can:

$ ps -A | grep boinc

to find all the dups. Probably best to kill them all and start (one client) again. After you download 4.12

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> You need to download an install BOINC 4.12. Otherwise, this host will never
> upload successfully, ever again. Do the same for all of your Linux clients

Yeah, I've stayed on top of the version releases...all running v4.13 now. I think this whole thing was a symptom of the validator problems that were going on, because all these clients started showing lots of credit in the last few days.


> Have you solved your multiple clients problem? e.g.,
> [-snip-]
> 2004-10-09 18:30:01 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running
> [-snip-]

This isn't an error, it's by design. I was having some issues with the BOINC client vanishing from time to time, so I setup a cron task to restart the client. When it is still running, it just logs that entry you noted.

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