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Message 7487 - Posted: 10 Apr 2008 | 19:19:37 UTC

First time I've observed this error. On an Ubuntu Linux laptop running Gutsy Gibbon - 7.10.

Thu 10 Apr 2008 09:08:20 PDT|Pirates@Home|Requesting 2599 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 completed tasks
Thu 10 Apr 2008 09:08:25 PDT|Pirates@Home|[error] handle_trickle_down failed: null pointer

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Message 7491 - Posted: 10 Apr 2008 | 23:24:44 UTC - in response to Message 7487.

chinookfoehn wrote:
First time I've observed this error. On an Ubuntu Linux laptop running Gutsy Gibbon - 7.10.

Thu 10 Apr 2008 09:08:20 PDT|Pirates@Home|Requesting 2599 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 completed tasks
Thu 10 Apr 2008 09:08:25 PDT|Pirates@Home|[error] handle_trickle_down failed: null pointer

And what version of the client?

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Message 7493 - Posted: 10 Apr 2008 | 23:51:43 UTC
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yes been recieving this alot

4/10/2008 7:47:25 PM|Pirates@Home|[error] handle_trickle_down failed: unexpected null pointer

Boinc hassnt releaced a 64 bit 6.1 app yet and im running Crunch3rs 64 bit 6.1 app becasue i have all 64 bit box's. not 1 wu has errored out and they do report if you stay on top of it but this error has came up 100 times today.

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Message 7495 - Posted: 11 Apr 2008 | 2:47:22 UTC - in response to Message 7491.
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And what version of the client?


Ubuntu only maintains 5.10.8 at present. I imagine this will change after version 8.04 is released this month.

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Message 7503 - Posted: 11 Apr 2008 | 12:10:31 UTC
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I think the "null pointer" message is harmless (and so it should go away in a future version of this app). I think it just means that no trickle down message was found. But I'll check, when I have time, to see where this comes from.

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Message 7505 - Posted: 11 Apr 2008 | 15:58:40 UTC

Thank you for the information.

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Message 7506 - Posted: 11 Apr 2008 | 19:12:58 UTC - in response to Message 7503.
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Wormholio wrote:
I think the "null pointer" message is harmless (and so it should go away in a future version of this app). I think it just means that no trickle down message was found. But I'll check, when I have time, to see where this comes from.


ERR_NULL -116

This error is generated in general, when a reference to a certain URL, project or result's name is invalid. In detail that is:

- The project as stated in the state file can't be found.
- The result as stated in the state file can't be found.
- The requested version of a science application for a certain task can't be found.
- Missing or incorrect project URL.
- On Date/Time conversion (date/time informations are passed as a long float number), a given time value passed to the date/time converter is negative or the output buffer was not initialized correctly.
- The science app respectively it's corresponding file containing a soft link to the executable file can't be found.

This error may also be issued if a trickle (used by some projects) can't be generated due to a missing/wrong project/result name.


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Message 7518 - Posted: 14 Apr 2008 | 3:31:58 UTC - in response to Message 7487.

chinookfoehn wrote:
First time I've observed this error. On an Ubuntu Linux laptop running Gutsy Gibbon - 7.10.

Thu 10 Apr 2008 09:08:20 PDT|Pirates@Home|Requesting 2599 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 completed tasks
Thu 10 Apr 2008 09:08:25 PDT|Pirates@Home|[error] handle_trickle_down failed: null pointer

Avast! Trickle down errors be gone.

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Message 7524 - Posted: 14 Apr 2008 | 17:48:50 UTC - in response to Message 7518.

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chinookfoehn wrote:
Ubuntu Linux laptop running Gutsy Gibbon - 7.10.
Requesting 2599 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 completed tasks
error] handle_trickle_down failed: null pointer

Avast! Trickle down errors be gone.


I'm still getting this on my three Windows machines.. BOINC Manager Version 6.1.14 One machine each.. Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista. The error appears to be completely benign. One of the error chains contained 90 error messages, all with the same date/time stamp (4/14/2008 10:29:03 AM) Followed by a good "4/14/2008 10:29:03 AM|Pirates@Home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks"
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Message 7529 - Posted: 15 Apr 2008 | 2:49:51 UTC - in response to Message 7524.

Brian Uitti wrote:
I'm still getting this on my three Windows machines...

You're right of course. I must have been blinded by wishful thinking last night :)

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