All,
I have installed seti@home on my blade 1000 running Solaris 8.
Now, everything started ok the client downloaded two jobs and the manager shows “running” (even the CPU’s are “spinning” on 100%))

Here is the log after a restart
2006-11-06 06:03:26 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.9 for sparc64-sun-solaris
2006-11-06 06:03:27 [---] libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8c zlib/1.1.3
2006-11-06 06:03:27 [---] Data directory: /var/tmp/seti/boinc5.49seti5.13sparc64sol8
2006-11-06 06:03:27 [SETI@home] Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
2006-11-06 06:03:27 [---] Processor: 2 SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000 sparcv9+vis2
2006-11-06 06:03:27 [---] Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 8.00 GB virtual
2006-11-06 06:03:27 [---] Disk: 5.83 GB total, 5.63 GB free
2006-11-06 06:03:27 [SETI@home] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: xxxxxxx; location: home; project prefs: default
2006-11-06 06:03:27 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2006-11-06 06:03:27 [---] Remote control allowed
2006-11-06 06:03:27 [---] Listening on port 31416
2006-11-06 06:03:27 [SETI@home] Resuming task 07mr04ab.25188.11890.704808.3.245_0 using setiathome_enhanced version 513
2006-11-06 06:03:27 [SETI@home] Resuming task 07mr04ab.25188.11986.54842.3.97_2 using setiathome_enhanced version 513

The problem is that the progress tab stuck on 0.000%!!!! I don’t think it is crunching at-all.

Anybody has seen this behavior?

Thanks,
dbmms

Your log looks good.
But it could be that the system needs some time, till the progress will done or updated. If the setiathome-5.xx processes are on CPU, it should be OK.
Also, it could be that it is a problem with the updating of the CPU and progress counters.

But, please could you look into /var/tmp/seti and verify, if the files are changed (for example : ls -laRrt), the SETI application updates the files about every five minutes.

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Dotsch,

Thanks for answering.
The only file that change is the “client_state.xml”.
The progress is still on 0.00% this is frustrating.

See print-out

Thanks again,
dbmms


bash-2.03$ ls -ltr
total 7524
-rwxr-xr-x 1 seti staff 3800728 Sep 24 12:27 boinc
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 0 Nov 6 05:00 lockfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 69 Nov 6 05:01 master_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 0 Nov 6 05:04 stderrdae.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 1023 Nov 6 05:05 stdoutdae.txt
-rw------- 1 seti staff 0 Nov 6 05:09 gui_rpc_auth.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 3101 Nov 6 05:41 sched_request_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xm
l
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 6053 Nov 6 05:41 sched_reply_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 420 Nov 6 05:41 statistics_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 2870 Nov 6 05:41 account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml
drwxr-xr-x 4 seti staff 512 Nov 6 05:41 slots
drwxr-xr-x 3 seti staff 512 Nov 6 10:11 projects
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 3450 Nov 7 00:40 nohup.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 9546 Nov 7 00:40 client_state_prev.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 9546 Nov 7 00:40 client_state.xml

bash-2.03$ ls -ltr
total 7524
-rwxr-xr-x 1 seti staff 3800728 Sep 24 12:27 boinc
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 0 Nov 6 05:00 lockfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 69 Nov 6 05:01 master_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 0 Nov 6 05:04 stderrdae.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 1023 Nov 6 05:05 stdoutdae.txt
-rw------- 1 seti staff 0 Nov 6 05:09 gui_rpc_auth.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 3101 Nov 6 05:41 sched_request_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 6053 Nov 6 05:41 sched_reply_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 420 Nov 6 05:41 statistics_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 2870 Nov 6 05:41 account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml
drwxr-xr-x 4 seti staff 512 Nov 6 05:41 slots
drwxr-xr-x 3 seti staff 512 Nov 6 10:11 projects
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 3450 Nov 7 00:40 nohup.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 9546 Nov 7 00:40 client_state_prev.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 9546 Nov 7 01:40 client_state.xml

bash-2.03$ diff client_state.xml client_state_prev.xml
23c23
< <on_frac>0.992338</on_frac>
---
> <on_frac>0.992445</on_frac>
26,27c26,27
< <cpu_efficiency>0.471847</cpu_efficiency>
< <last_update>1162881617.270101</last_update>
---
> <cpu_efficiency>0.491924</cpu_efficiency>
> <last_update>1162877716.450059</last_update>

Thanks for answering.
The only file that change is the “client_state.xml”.
The progress is still on 0.00% this is frustrating.

Sorry, but I have never seen this behavior before...

Could you please look into the slots/[0|1]/ directory, there should be the file state.sah.
If you now do a "grep prog state.sah" or "grep ncfft state.sah" or "grep you will see the progress. - But note, that the files will be updated every five minutes.

Have you tried the offical SETI application ? - Did you get the same behavior ?
If you move out the setiathome-5.x and app_info.xml from the projects directory, and restart the boinc client again, it would download the offical application automaticly.

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Dotsch,

Ok, my bad.
No files has been updated. That file was probably me doing something through the GUI.
I watched all the files with $ls -laRrt and nothing.
The cpu’s are running like crazy and nothing happened.

Look at the prstat... :-(
PID USERNAME USR SYS TRP TFL DFL LCK SLP LAT VCX ICX SCL SIG PROCESS/NLWP
354 seti 33 0.0 - - - - 67 - 0 204 35 5 setiathome_5/3
355 seti 31 2.8 - - - - 67 - 0 107 35 5 setiathome_5/3
178 root 0.0 0.0 - - - - 0.0 - 0 0 0 0 inetd/1
222 root 0.0 0.0 - - - - 0.0 - 0 0 0 0 lpsched/1
184 daemon 0.0 0.0 - - - - 67 - 0 0 0 0 statd/3

NPROC USERNAME SIZE RSS MEMORY TIME CPU
6 seti 139M 131M 3.3% 1:56.53 100%
1 daemon 2568K 1800K 0.0% 0:00.00 0.0%
29 root 72M 42M 1.0% 0:00.00 0.0%

Total: 36 processes, 119 lwps, load averages: 2.00, 2.00, 1.96

I aborted the job. It downloaded a new one and still NADA.
This is a good one…


11/7/2006 10:20:00 AM|SETI@home|Unrecoverable error for result 07mr04ab.25188.11890.704808.3.245_0 (aborted by user)
11/7/2006 10:20:00 AM|SETI@home|Deferring scheduler requests for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
11/7/2006 10:20:00 AM||Rescheduling CPU: result suspended, resumed or aborted by user
11/7/2006 10:20:06 AM||Rescheduling CPU: application exited
11/7/2006 10:20:06 AM|SETI@home|Computation for task 07mr04ab.25188.11890.704808.3.245_0 finished
11/7/2006 10:20:09 AM|SETI@home|Unrecoverable error for result 07mr04ab.25188.11986.54842.3.97_2 (aborted by user)
11/7/2006 10:20:09 AM|SETI@home|Deferring scheduler requests for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
11/7/2006 10:20:09 AM||Rescheduling CPU: result suspended, resumed or aborted by user
11/7/2006 10:20:15 AM||Rescheduling CPU: application exited
11/7/2006 10:20:15 AM|SETI@home|Computation for task 07mr04ab.25188.11986.54842.3.97_2 finished
11/7/2006 10:21:05 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
11/7/2006 10:21:05 AM|SETI@home|Reason: Requested by user
11/7/2006 10:21:05 AM|SETI@home|Requesting 17280 seconds of new work, and reporting 2 completed tasks
11/7/2006 10:21:10 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded
11/7/2006 10:21:12 AM|SETI@home|Started download of file 14jn03ab.23358.8514.67314.3.63
11/7/2006 10:21:18 AM|SETI@home|Finished download of file 14jn03ab.23358.8514.67314.3.63
11/7/2006 10:21:18 AM|SETI@home|Throughput 61738 bytes/sec
11/7/2006 10:21:20 AM||Rescheduling CPU: files downloaded
11/7/2006 10:21:20 AM|SETI@home|Starting task 14jn03ab.23358.8514.67314.3.63_3 using setiathome_enhanced version 513

br,
dbmms

I moved the files us you suggested
Now at-least I am getting an error.

dbmms

bash-2.03$ ./boinc -update_prefs http://setiathome.berkeley.edu
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.9 for sparc64-sun-solaris
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [---] libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8c zlib/1.1.3
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [---] Data directory: /var/tmp/seti/boinc5.49seti5.13sparc64sol8
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [---] No URL for file transfer of setiathome_5.13_sparc64-sun-solaris2.8
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [---] No URL for file transfer of setiathome_5.13_sparc64-sun-solaris2.8
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [SETI@home] Can't initialize file transfer for setiathome_5.13_sparc64-sun-solaris2.8
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [SETI@home] Can't initialize file transfer for setiathome_5.13_sparc64-sun-solaris2.8
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [SETI@home] State file error: result 14jn03ab.23358.8514.67314.3.63_3 is in wrong state
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [SETI@home] State file error: result 14jn03ab.23358.8514.67314.3.63_3 is in wrong state
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [---] Processor: 2 SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000 sparcv9+vis2
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [---] Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 8.00 GB virtual
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [---] Disk: 5.83 GB total, 5.63 GB free
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [SETI@home] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 2850248; location: home; project prefs: default
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [---] Local control only allowed
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [---] Listening on port 31416
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [SETI@home] Couldn't start download of setiathome_5.13_sparc64-sun-solaris2.8
2006-11-07 03:41:17 [SETI@home] Couldn't start download of setiathome_5.13_sparc64-sun-solaris2.8
SIGSEGV: segmentation violation
Exiting...

I have looked into your logs, and there are two aborted results, which are computinging right :

1. Result :

<message>
aborted by user
</message>
<stderr_txt>
ar=0.834637 NumCfft=51945 NumGauss=235006892 NumPulse=25347245567 NumTriplet=3580122300416
ar=0.834637 NumCfft=51945 NumGauss=235006892 NumPulse=25347245567 NumTriplet=3580122300416
ar=0.834637 NumCfft=51945 NumGauss=235006892 NumPulse=25347245567 NumTriplet=3580122300416
ar=0.834637 NumCfft=51945 NumGauss=235006892 NumPulse=25347245567 NumTriplet=3580122300416
ar=0.834637 NumCfft=51945 NumGauss=235006892 NumPulse=25347245567 NumTriplet=3580122300416
ar=0.834637 NumCfft=51945 NumGauss=235006892 NumPulse=25347245567 NumTriplet=3580122300416


2. Result

<message>
aborted by user
</message>
<stderr_txt>
ar=7.768254 NumCfft=31593 NumGauss=0 NumPulse=489068543 NumTriplet=390544228352
ar=7.768254 NumCfft=31593 NumGauss=0 NumPulse=489068543 NumTriplet=390544228352
ar=7.768254 NumCfft=31593 NumGauss=0 NumPulse=489068543 NumTriplet=390544228352
ar=7.768254 NumCfft=31593 NumGauss=0 NumPulse=489068543 NumTriplet=390544228352
ar=7.768254 NumCfft=31593 NumGauss=0 NumPulse=489068543 NumTriplet=390544228352
ar=7.768254 NumCfft=31593 NumGauss=0 NumPulse=489068543 NumTriplet=390544228352


But, both results shown 0 seconds of CPU time. So it looks like your system is computing, but not counting the CPU time right.
Do you have installed the recent patches ? - Specialy a old libpthread could cause such errors. But I recommend you to install the complete Recommended Patches.

I moved the files us you suggested
Now at-least I am getting an error.

The boinc client shows the hostid on the system it was compiled, but this platform is not valid on the SETI servers. I will look, if the file could be manualy downloaded.

Could you please install the offical boinc client and test so the offical seti application to ensure, that the old one running and use the time till I have found a solution to download the seti application manualy.
It could be, that the CPU time and progress counting works with the old version.

Could you please let the application running for about 30 to 60 minutes before you abort it. So we can ensure, that there was some CPU time and computing done, but not counted right.

Also of interest is, if there is any change at the files in the slots/0 and slots/1

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Will do.

BTW - it was runing over night before i abort it.

thanks,
dbmms

What is the "official" boinc client?

What is the "official" boinc client?

A older BOINC client (4.43), which was compiled from the BOINC peoples. It is available at boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php.

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Do you have some news about this problem ?

I had a simliar problem with a WU at the Beta project. State shows runing, but did not go to CPU and doing noting. It looks like a bad WU. - I have aborted the WU and the next WU was computed OK.

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Do you have some news about this problem ?

I had a simliar problem with a WU at the Beta project. State shows runing, but did not go to CPU and doing noting. It looks like a bad WU. - I have aborted the WU and the next WU was computed OK.

No luck here.
I did abort once but nothing good happen.
Anyway I have some “real” work for that server again.

Will try next time its idle.

BR,