Any news on work units?

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Ed and Harriet Griffith Send message Joined: 6 Oct 07 Posts: 15 Credit: 1,145,024 RAC: 0	Message 178 - Posted: 29 Oct 2007, 20:18:37 UTC Any news, estimates, or guesses on when work units will be ready? ID: 178 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Ed and Harriet Griffith Send message Joined: 6 Oct 07 Posts: 15 Credit: 1,145,024 RAC: 0	Message 182 - Posted: 7 Nov 2007, 19:57:51 UTC It looks like some work units went out, but there were too few for everyone to get some. How did that batch turn out and is there a chance of more work units so you can solve all the mysteries of our favorite galaxy? ID: 182 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

zombie67 [MM] Send message Joined: 29 Aug 07 Posts: 115 Credit: 502,661,158 RAC: 4,584	Message 185 - Posted: 8 Nov 2007, 2:55:32 UTC Last modified: 8 Nov 2007, 2:59:45 UTC I have a couple of items stuck trying to download to my machine, with the message "file not found". The two items are stars.txt and volume.txt. Should I abort or continue to wait? Thanks! Edit: Found the same problem on three other machines. ID: 185 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Ed and Harriet Griffith Send message Joined: 6 Oct 07 Posts: 15 Credit: 1,145,024 RAC: 0	Message 186 - Posted: 8 Nov 2007, 3:56:29 UTC Last modified: 8 Nov 2007, 4:09:42 UTC For windows XP I get the message "11/7/2007 10:57:11 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Message from server: (there was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated)" I have never put any limitation on disk space on any BOINC project. ID: 186 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jim Baize Send message Joined: 6 Sep 07 Posts: 5 Credit: 226,909 RAC: 0	Message 187 - Posted: 8 Nov 2007, 3:57:05 UTC - in response to Message 185. I have a couple of items stuck trying to download to my machine, with the message "file not found". The two items are stars.txt and volume.txt. Should I abort or continue to wait? Thanks! Edit: Found the same problem on three other machines. Just to confirm that I have the same problem with the same files. ID: 187 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Ed and Harriet Griffith Send message Joined: 6 Oct 07 Posts: 15 Credit: 1,145,024 RAC: 0	Message 189 - Posted: 8 Nov 2007, 4:16:14 UTC - in response to Message 186. [quote]For windows XP I get the message "11/7/2007 10:57:11 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Message from server: (there was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated)" I have never put any limitation on disk space on any BOINC project. [/quote I updated my general preferences to allow more of everything related to disk space and did get three work units. This is the only BOINC project I have had to do that for and you may want to mention it somewhere. ID: 189 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

TheGummer Send message Joined: 8 Nov 07 Posts: 1 Credit: 281,047 RAC: 0	Message 190 - Posted: 8 Nov 2007, 4:18:37 UTC Last modified: 8 Nov 2007, 4:20:56 UTC I'm still 'file not found' too 07/11/2007 11:18:08 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Scheduler request succeeded: got 10 new tasks 07/11/2007 11:18:10 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Started download of stars.txt 07/11/2007 11:18:10 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Started download of volume.txt 07/11/2007 11:18:11 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Giving up on download of stars.txt: file not found 07/11/2007 11:18:11 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Giving up on download of volume.txt: file not found 07/11/2007 11:18:11 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Started download of parameters_generated_1194561630_556 07/11/2007 11:18:11 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Started download of parameters_generated_1194561630_557 07/11/2007 11:18:12 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Finished download of parameters_generated_1194561630_556 07/11/2007 11:18:12 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Finished download of parameters_generated_1194561630_557 07/11/2007 11:18:12 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Started download of parameters_generated_1194561630_558 07/11/2007 11:18:12 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Started download of parameters_generated_1194561631_559 07/11/2007 11:18:13 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Finished download of parameters_generated_1194561630_558 07/11/2007 11:18:13 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Finished download of parameters_generated_1194561631_559 07/11/2007 11:18:13 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Started download of parameters_generated_1194561628_523 07/11/2007 11:18:13 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Started download of parameters_generated_1194561628_524 07/11/2007 11:18:14 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Finished download of parameters_generated_1194561628_523 07/11/2007 11:18:14 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Finished download of parameters_generated_1194561628_524 07/11/2007 11:18:14 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Started download of parameters_generated_1194561532_446 07/11/2007 11:18:14 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Started download of parameters_generated_1194561629_533 07/11/2007 11:18:15 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Finished download of parameters_generated_1194561532_446 07/11/2007 11:18:15 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Finished download of parameters_generated_1194561629_533 07/11/2007 11:18:15 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Started download of parameters_generated_1194561631_561 07/11/2007 11:18:15 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Started download of parameters_generated_1194561629_537 07/11/2007 11:18:17 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Finished download of parameters_generated_1194561631_561 07/11/2007 11:18:17 PM\|Milkyway@home\|Finished download of parameters_generated_1194561629_537 They show up as 'download failed' in the task list. ID: 190 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Kinguni Send message Joined: 29 Aug 07 Posts: 2 Credit: 6,926 RAC: 0	Message 191 - Posted: 8 Nov 2007, 4:32:01 UTC - in response to Message 187. I have a couple of items stuck trying to download to my machine, with the message "file not found". The two items are stars.txt and volume.txt. Should I abort or continue to wait? Thanks! Edit: Found the same problem on three other machines. Just to confirm that I have the same problem with the same files. Ditto. ID: 191 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Michael Howe Send message Joined: 7 Oct 07 Posts: 1 Credit: 1,466,665 RAC: 0	Message 192 - Posted: 8 Nov 2007, 4:37:48 UTC Stars.txt file seems to be the only file I have stuck in download... ID: 192 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

zombie67 [MM] Send message Joined: 29 Aug 07 Posts: 115 Credit: 502,661,158 RAC: 4,584	Message 194 - Posted: 8 Nov 2007, 5:29:15 UTC Aborting and asking for new work seems to solve the problem. ID: 194 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jim Baize Send message Joined: 6 Sep 07 Posts: 5 Credit: 226,909 RAC: 0	Message 196 - Posted: 8 Nov 2007, 5:39:51 UTC - in response to Message 194. Last modified: 8 Nov 2007, 5:43:36 UTC Aborting and asking for new work seems to solve the problem. Didn't work for me. :( Also, waiting a random amount of time and retrying the download also didn't work for me. [edit]I spoke too soon. It finally did work for me after I aborted and asked for new work. It still failed the first time or two, but it did eventually work.[/edit] ID: 196 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Kinguni Send message Joined: 29 Aug 07 Posts: 2 Credit: 6,926 RAC: 0	Message 197 - Posted: 8 Nov 2007, 5:42:17 UTC - in response to Message 196. It seams to have sorted itself out now. ID: 197 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Barbud [USA] Send message Joined: 30 Aug 07 Posts: 15 Credit: 6,390 RAC: 0	Message 198 - Posted: 8 Nov 2007, 5:43:22 UTC I waited and both files downloaded for me. It took about a few tries but it eventually got them. ID: 198 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Misfit Send message Joined: 27 Aug 07 Posts: 915 Credit: 1,503,319 RAC: 0	Message 199 - Posted: 8 Nov 2007, 6:00:11 UTC I got a bunch of work. All with a one day deadline. me@rescam.org ID: 199 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Pepo Send message Joined: 18 Sep 07 Posts: 7 Credit: 33,809 RAC: 0	Message 200 - Posted: 8 Nov 2007, 7:06:31 UTC Got a bunch of work too. The first task failed - again the wellknown stars.txt - failed with error_code -224, file stars.txt not found. On next attempt one minute later the download succeeded. Peter ID: 200 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote