Hi,

I have four WUs that have been trying to download for the last couple days. Any suggestions would be welcome.

patience,

Hi,

I have four WUs that have been trying to download for the last couple days. Any suggestions would be welcome.

patience,

Abort them as they appear to be missing files....any that will not d/l abort immediately...don't waste your time

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I would abort the Wu and the transfer that would still be listing and then update. Sometimes you get several that are like this and other times you will get all working WUs.

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Hi,

Aborting seems like such a failure.
Oh, well.

Keep on tryin',

Hi,

Aborting seems like such a failure.
Oh, well.

Keep on tryin',

Unless you abort, your client won't report and no further work will be sent to you.

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The problem appears to be with missing directories, or permissions.

I just had a look through my client_state.xml and had a look for some of the files it asked for in the milkyway download directory. In most cases the directory did not appear to exist on the server.

If it ain't there (or set up with permissions that forbid us from seeing it), one's not gonna get it.

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If that is the case wouldn't all downloads fail.

Some of them are successful

He did say 'most'. Anyway, keeping this going requires too much upkeep right now.. wish boinc would just get rid of the stuff that won't download and move on, doing it by hand is too tiresome.

Does the project team have an idea as to what is causing this problem?
I joined last night and had close to 2 dozen fail in downloading to my libc 2.5 computer.
My libc 2.3.6 computer just failed everything, is there a fix for this "libc" problem?

Does the project team have an idea as to what is causing this problem?
I joined last night and had close to 2 dozen fail in downloading to my libc 2.5 computer.
My libc 2.3.6 computer just failed everything, is there a fix for this "libc" problem?

Look at the front page news Conan.....Travis is/was out of town....attention should be paid soon ....hang in there...

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Does the project team have an idea as to what is causing this problem?
I joined last night and had close to 2 dozen fail in downloading to my libc 2.5 computer.
My libc 2.3.6 computer just failed everything, is there a fix for this "libc" problem?

Look at the front page news Conan.....Travis is/was out of town....attention should be paid soon ....hang in there...

Thanks for the reply JRenkar,
I did read the front page news, the libc problem dates back well prior to Christmas going on the forum threads, so I was wondering if any progress had been made in that area.

Does the project team have an idea as to what is causing this problem?
I joined last night and had close to 2 dozen fail in downloading to my libc 2.5 computer.
My libc 2.3.6 computer just failed everything, is there a fix for this "libc" problem?

Look at the front page news Conan.....Travis is/was out of town....attention should be paid soon ....hang in there...

Thanks for the reply JRenkar,
I did read the front page news, the libc problem dates back well prior to Christmas going on the forum threads, so I was wondering if any progress had been made in that area.

Yes sorry...wasn't addressing the libc problem Conan...just the d/l issue

Hi,

The problem appears to be with missing directories, or permissions....

I doubt that very much. The problematical files partially download and usually "stick" at around 30% or so....more likely file/filesystem corruption.

In any case, it really doesn't matter from our perspective. All that matters is that we can't get the file, speculating as to why is pretty pointless.

It'll get fixed in due course.


TTFN - Pete.

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The problem appears to be with missing directories, or permissions....

I doubt that very much. The problematical files partially download and usually "stick" at around 30% or so....more likely file/filesystem corruption.

The 30% it gets is most likely the error page saying "403 forbidden" which is about 330 bytes in size.

But yes, I'm sure it will sorted out in due course.

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Hi,

The 30% it gets is most likely the error page saying "403 forbidden" which is about 330 bytes in size.

....mutter, mutter....I never thought of that....mutter, mutter.... ;-)

I was forgetting how BOINC works "under the hood", you make a very good point.


TTFN - Pete.

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Seems all the files I'm getting are failing.. aborting but every time I get a new one it fails too. :(

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seeing more of these on all of my computers

02-Jan-2008 20:35:56 [Milkyway@home] Temporarily failed download of parameters_generated_1199303906_26259: http error
02-Jan-2008 20:35:56 [Milkyway@home] Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of parameters_generated_1199303906_26259
02-Jan-2008 20:35:56 [Milkyway@home] Started download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371
02-Jan-2008 20:35:57 [Milkyway@home] Temporarily failed download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371: http error
02-Jan-2008 20:35:57 [Milkyway@home] Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371
02-Jan-2008 20:36:56 [Milkyway@home] Started download of parameters_generated_1199303905_26220
02-Jan-2008 20:36:56 [Milkyway@home] Started download of parameters_generated_1199303906_26259
02-Jan-2008 20:36:57 [Milkyway@home] Temporarily failed download of parameters_generated_1199303905_26220: http error
02-Jan-2008 20:36:57 [Milkyway@home] Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of parameters_generated_1199303905_26220
02-Jan-2008 20:36:57 [Milkyway@home] Temporarily failed download of parameters_generated_1199303906_26259: http error
02-Jan-2008 20:36:57 [Milkyway@home] Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of parameters_generated_1199303906_26259
02-Jan-2008 20:36:57 [Milkyway@home] Started download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371
02-Jan-2008 20:36:58 [Milkyway@home] Temporarily failed download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371: http error
02-Jan-2008 20:36:58 [Milkyway@home] Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371
02-Jan-2008 20:37:57 [Milkyway@home] Started download of parameters_generated_1199303905_26220
02-Jan-2008 20:37:57 [Milkyway@home] Started download of parameters_generated_1199303906_26259
02-Jan-2008 20:37:58 [Milkyway@home] Temporarily failed download of parameters_generated_1199303905_26220: http error
02-Jan-2008 20:37:58 [Milkyway@home] Backing off 1 min 7 sec on download of parameters_generated_1199303905_26220
02-Jan-2008 20:37:58 [Milkyway@home] Temporarily failed download of parameters_generated_1199303906_26259: http error
02-Jan-2008 20:37:58 [Milkyway@home] Backing off 1 min 19 sec on download of parameters_generated_1199303906_26259
02-Jan-2008 20:37:58 [Milkyway@home] Started download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371
02-Jan-2008 20:37:59 [Milkyway@home] Temporarily failed download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371: http error
02-Jan-2008 20:37:59 [Milkyway@home] Backing off 1 min 33 sec on download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371
02-Jan-2008 20:39:06 [Milkyway@home] Started download of parameters_generated_1199303905_26220
02-Jan-2008 20:39:07 [Milkyway@home] Temporarily failed download of parameters_generated_1199303905_26220: http error
02-Jan-2008 20:39:07 [Milkyway@home] Backing off 2 min 58 sec on download of parameters_generated_1199303905_26220
02-Jan-2008 20:39:18 [Milkyway@home] Started download of parameters_generated_1199303906_26259
02-Jan-2008 20:39:19 [Milkyway@home] Temporarily failed download of parameters_generated_1199303906_26259: http error
02-Jan-2008 20:39:19 [Milkyway@home] Backing off 6 min 26 sec on download of parameters_generated_1199303906_26259
02-Jan-2008 20:39:33 [Milkyway@home] Started download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371
02-Jan-2008 20:39:34 [Milkyway@home] Temporarily failed download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371: http error
02-Jan-2008 20:39:34 [Milkyway@home] Backing off 2 min 14 sec on download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371
02-Jan-2008 20:41:49 [Milkyway@home] Started download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371
02-Jan-2008 20:41:50 [Milkyway@home] Temporarily failed download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371: http error
02-Jan-2008 20:41:50 [Milkyway@home] Backing off 1 min 3 sec on download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371
02-Jan-2008 20:42:08 [Milkyway@home] Started download of parameters_generated_1199303905_26220
02-Jan-2008 20:42:09 [Milkyway@home] Temporarily failed download of parameters_generated_1199303905_26220: http error
02-Jan-2008 20:42:09 [Milkyway@home] Backing off 9 min 22 sec on download of parameters_generated_1199303905_26220
02-Jan-2008 20:42:56 [Milkyway@home] Started download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371
02-Jan-2008 20:42:57 [Milkyway@home] Temporarily failed download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371: http error
02-Jan-2008 20:42:57 [Milkyway@home] Backing off 12 min 40 sec on download of parameters_generated_1199303912_26371
02-Jan-2008 20:44:23 [Milkyway@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 48123 seconds of work, reporting 3 completed tasks
02-Jan-2008 20:44:28 [Milkyway@home] Scheduler request succeeded: got 3 new tasks
02-Jan-2008 20:44:30 [Milkyway@home] Started download of parameters_generated_1199379506_40798
02-Jan-2008 20:44:30 [Milkyway@home] Started download of parameters_generated_1199379499_40642
02-Jan-2008 20:44:31 [Milkyway@home] Temporarily failed download of parameters_generated_1199379506_40798: http error
02-Jan-2008 20:44:31 [Milkyway@home] Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of parameters_generated_1199379506_40798
02-Jan-2008 20:44:31 [Milkyway@home] Finished download of parameters_generated_1199379499_40642
02-Jan-2008 20:44:31 [Milkyway@home] Started download of parameters_generated_1199379511_40927
02-Jan-2008 20:44:32 [Milkyway@home] Finished download of parameters_generated_1199379511_40927

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Each bad Work Unit will fail 5 times before being purged, hopefully we'll start seeing a drop-off as these numbers are reached.

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Each bad Work Unit will fail 5 times before being purged, hopefully we'll start seeing a drop-off as these numbers are reached.

Most of the WUs from which my “Client error / Downloading” tasks came are already at “Too many error results”.

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thank you all for the info about d/l...

I was beginning to think that my connection was in trouble ;)