i just had a full system crash and when i restarted the seti@home boinc cache got flushed was reasigned a new hostid. this wouldn't normally disturb me but the cache contained about 20 wu's, 10 already prosessed.
i think this is a bug that has to be dealt with ASAP.
anyone else had this problem?

Presumably the client_state.xml file was corrupted in the crash. There is a task to go to a 2 file rotation which should prevent this problem in the future.

John Keck
BOINCing since 2002/12/08

> Presumably the client_state.xml file was corrupted in the crash. There is a
> task to go to a 2 file rotation which should prevent this problem in the
> future.
>
John Keck
> BOINCing since 2002/12/08
>
i also checked the stderr.old and stdout.old files both were empty. :(
isn't there possible to make the client prosess the already downloaded wu's in the folder? there are 20 wu's in the worklist and 46 wu's in the setiathome folder(boinc) i am now hereby declearing myself confused :).

> > Presumably the client_state.xml file was corrupted in the crash. There is
> a
> > task to go to a 2 file rotation which should prevent this problem in the
> > future.
> >
John Keck
> > BOINCing since 2002/12/08
> >
> i also checked the stderr.old and stdout.old files both were empty. :(
> isn't there possible to make the client prosess the already downloaded wu's in
> the folder? there are 20 wu's in the worklist and 46 wu's in the setiathome
> folder(boinc) i am now hereby declearing myself confused :).
>
Unlikely unless you have a backup of the client_state.xml file. The CC will not know what to do with them otherwise.

John Keck
BOINCing since 2002/12/08

Unless your client had uploaded the units that were ready, you will have lost them. So if those 10 units that were ready were in the GUI as "ready to report", they'd been uploaded already but waiting for a scheduler to report them to the validator.

I had something similar last Monday when the power grid manager pulled the electricity off at 8am and only gave it back at 4pm. My host ID came up as corrupt, the client_state.xml file was beyond repairs. So I got a new host ID and new units for that one.

Yet I couldn't check if the host ID before that had managed to upload the work units it had finished. So I merged the old host ID with the new one, ran the recomputer credits option, then ran the Update on the GUI. That had worked, I had gotten the two uploaded units in the list under my new host ID.

Problem for you is that you can't check it, as the credits pages are temporarily disabled. Yet you can merge and recomputer. Then hope for the best.

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