One of my computers is "lost"

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Message 1755896 - Posted: 13 Jan 2016, 1:07:50 UTC

A processor with a XEON CPU, Locutus, is no longer listed under my 'computers'.

How does BOINC/SETI determine the Computer ID?
My stats no longer seem to list 'locutus', a XEON 3550 on a HP Z400 board.

I did two things within an hour of each other.

First, I moved the USB-> Wireless adapter from 'locutus' to a different computer, named 'Asimov'. Did the computer ID move with the Mac address?
(They run the same version of Linux mint, if that matters.)

I also moved my SETI account info.xml file for SETI from a third computer to Asimov.

But I still see 'Sagan' (oldest computer - core i7-920) and 'Asimov' (newest computer, Intel 4790k) as independent systems.

I'm stumped as to how this happened.

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Message 1755906 - Posted: 13 Jan 2016, 1:57:28 UTC - in response to Message 1755896.  

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Message 1755914 - Posted: 13 Jan 2016, 2:42:27 UTC - in response to Message 1755906.  

Yes, both are visible now.

I'm still wondering what happened, since it was missing from the earlier list of "my computers".

I did put the USB->Wireless adapter back in its original place, and turned that machine back on.
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Message 1756478 - Posted: 15 Jan 2016, 5:33:56 UTC - in response to Message 1755914.  

Sometimes BOINC assigns separate identities to the same computer by mistake. You can correct this by merging old identities with the newest one.

This list below seems pretty strange.

It looks like I should ALWAYS do an "add project" by signing up with email/password, instead of using the authenticator in the account_info.xml file.

>> Here's the output from when I went into the "merge computers" section.

Host 1161925 has an incompatible OS: (Linux, Darwin)
Host 1284323 has an incompatible OS: (Linux, Microsoft Windows 2000)
Host 2175038 has an incompatible CPU: (GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz [Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3], GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz)
Host 5070334 has an incompatible OS: (Linux, Microsoft Windows XP)
Host 5080967 has an incompatible OS: (Linux, Darwin)
Host 6437752 has overlapping lifetime: (13 Jan 2016 - 15 Jan 2016), (25 Feb 2012 - 14 Jan 2016)
Host 7582484 has an incompatible OS: (Linux, Darwin)
Host 7834880 has an incompatible CPU: (GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz [Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3], GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU J2900 @ 2.41GHz [Family 6 Model 55 Stepping 8])
Host 7837118 has overlapping lifetime: (13 Jan 2016 - 15 Jan 2016), (29 Nov 2015 - 15 Jan 2016)
Host 7874920 has overlapping lifetime: (13 Jan 2016 - 15 Jan 2016), (5 Jan 2016 - 15 Jan 2016)
No hosts are eligible for merging with this one.
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