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Contact Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 29 Aug 04 Canada BOINC Synergy Credit: 26,644.6 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Aug 29, 2004 Verified: Nov 10, 2011 Dubloons: 3 Pieces of Eight: 3 Punishment: Misfit	Message 8050 - Posted: 18 Nov 2008 \| 16:15:50 UTC
[size=-1]11/18/08 10:38:14 AM\|Pirates@Home\|Message from server: Your version of the BOINC core client (6.4.0) is disallowed.[/size] Also seeing blank fields again: [size=-1]11/18/08 10:38:14 AM\|Pirates@Home\|New computer location:[/size] Most noticable is that team name is blank in manager. Similar problem happened before: Client restrictions ____________ Click and enter your name for your BOINC Statistics
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Wormholio Captain Send message Joined: 6 Jun 04 United States Away Credit: 4,009.8 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Jun 6, 2004 Verified: Mar 13, 2008 Dubloons: 3 Pieces of Eight: 10 Punishment: Aztec curse	Message 8052 - Posted: 19 Nov 2008 \| 12:52:15 UTC - in response to Message 8050. Last modified: 19 Nov 2008 \| 12:52:56 UTC
Contact wrote: [size=-1]11/18/08 10:38:14 AM\|Pirates@Home\|Message from server: Your version of the BOINC core client (6.4.0) is disallowed.[/size] Ah, good to know that the scheduler restrictions are still working. Also seeing blank fields again: [size=-1]11/18/08 10:38:14 AM\|Pirates@Home\|New computer location:[/size] This is a consequence of being blocked at the scheduler. But... the new client is supposed to be better about dealing with that. So re-open that bug ticket (or open a ticket, if there never was one). ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats
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Wormholio Captain Send message Joined: 6 Jun 04 United States Away Credit: 4,009.8 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Jun 6, 2004 Verified: Mar 13, 2008 Dubloons: 3 Pieces of Eight: 10 Punishment: Aztec curse	Message 8053 - Posted: 19 Nov 2008 \| 13:15:33 UTC Last modified: 19 Nov 2008 \| 13:17:15 UTC
The relevant tickets are 417 and 633, both closed as fixed. Previous posts describing the problem are Message 6542 and Thread 926. Could someone on the alpha crew report the possibility that this bug has returned? I can change scheduler restrictions if that would help testing. Actually, I think I'll turn on nowork_skip to see if that makes it more obvious. Keep in mind that we have older code on this server, which may contribute. I was just getting ready to test the "server_stable" branch for apps, but perhaps changing over the server is the first step to take. ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats
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Wormholio Captain Send message Joined: 6 Jun 04 United States Away Credit: 4,009.8 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Jun 6, 2004 Verified: Mar 13, 2008 Dubloons: 3 Pieces of Eight: 10 Punishment: Aztec curse	Message 8055 - Posted: 19 Nov 2008 \| 16:19:51 UTC
I think I see why this bug is back: On the BOINC alpha list Rom W. wrote: We have made some hard choices today and have decided to cut the new manager features in favor of getting a CUDA capable client release out sooner rather than later. What we are going to do is use the new CUDA capable core client with a slightly tweaked 6.2 manager. ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats
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Pepo Chief Petty Officer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 13 Sep 04 Slovakia TeamVision42 Credit: 924.2 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Sep 13, 2004 Verified: Aug 4, 2009 Dubloons: 3 Pieces of Eight: 5 Punishment: Cat o' Nine Tails	Message 8057 - Posted: 19 Nov 2008 \| 17:27:34 UTC - in response to Message 8053.
Wormholio wrote: Previous posts describing the problem are Message 6542 and... Capt'n, you might want to repair your link to Message 6542, no idea why but it is missing '&' character in the middle: "...id=842&nowrap=true..." ____________ Peter .-)
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Pepo Chief Petty Officer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 13 Sep 04 Slovakia TeamVision42 Credit: 924.2 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Sep 13, 2004 Verified: Aug 4, 2009 Dubloons: 3 Pieces of Eight: 5 Punishment: Cat o' Nine Tails	Message 8058 - Posted: 19 Nov 2008 \| 17:48:51 UTC Last modified: 19 Nov 2008 \| 17:51:37 UTC
Pirates was the first project contacted, after I've installed the 6.4.0 client yesterday morning (with the "Your version of the BOINC core client (6.4.0) is disallowed." message). It has not got any work from any project since. Just "got 0 new tasks" without any other reason. There is still a lot of free space and the client is requesting work from various projects. I could no notice any major difference between various older and newer sched_request_***.xml files. ____________ Peter .-)
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Pepo Chief Petty Officer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 13 Sep 04 Slovakia TeamVision42 Credit: 924.2 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Sep 13, 2004 Verified: Aug 4, 2009 Dubloons: 3 Pieces of Eight: 5 Punishment: Cat o' Nine Tails	Message 8059 - Posted: 19 Nov 2008 \| 18:21:03 UTC - in response to Message 8058.
Pepo wrote: It has not got any work from any project since. Just "got 0 new tasks" without any other reason. There is still a lot of free space and the client is requesting work from various projects. The client just downloaded one 12-hour task from Einstein, but is still lacking at least 36 CPU hours of work. Nevertheless, at least my work fetch problem definitely seems not to be bound to this Pirates' issue. ____________ Peter .-)
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Contact Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 29 Aug 04 Canada BOINC Synergy Credit: 26,644.6 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Aug 29, 2004 Verified: Nov 10, 2011 Dubloons: 3 Pieces of Eight: 3 Punishment: Misfit	Message 8060 - Posted: 20 Nov 2008 \| 2:42:13 UTC - in response to Message 8055.
Wormholio wrote: I think I see why this bug is back... Nicely done! Mystery solved. I saw Rom's note, but I just didn't connect it to this bug. After BOINC be back to current code and no work is to be had here, we can ask for the nowork_skip to make sure team name etc. doesn't disappear.
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Pepo Chief Petty Officer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 13 Sep 04 Slovakia TeamVision42 Credit: 924.2 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Sep 13, 2004 Verified: Aug 4, 2009 Dubloons: 3 Pieces of Eight: 5 Punishment: Cat o' Nine Tails	Message 8063 - Posted: 20 Nov 2008 \| 8:06:31 UTC - in response to Message 8060.
Contact wrote: Wormholio wrote: I think I see why this bug is back... Nicely done! Mystery solved. I saw Rom's note, but I just didn't connect it to this bug. I saw it too, but forgot that 6.2.x was branched that far ago (exactly 2 weeks prior to this bug being repaired in 6.3.x trunk). ____________ Peter .-)
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Nicolas Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 05 Argentina The Final Front Ear Credit: 147.9 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Verified: NEVER	Message 8064 - Posted: 20 Nov 2008 \| 11:17:59 UTC - in response to Message 8055.
Wormholio wrote: I think I see why this bug is back: On the BOINC alpha list Rom W. wrote: We have made some hard choices today and have decided to cut the new manager features[...]. What we are going to do is use the new CUDA capable core client with a slightly tweaked 6.2 manager. So? How is parsing scheduler replies a manager feature? ____________
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Nicolas Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 05 Argentina The Final Front Ear Credit: 147.9 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Verified: NEVER	Message 8065 - Posted: 20 Nov 2008 \| 11:22:13 UTC - in response to Message 8052.
Wormholio wrote: Contact wrote: [size=-1]11/18/08 10:38:14 AM\|Pirates@Home\|Message from server: Your version of the BOINC core client (6.4.0) is disallowed.[/size] Ah, good to know that the scheduler restrictions are still working. What would happen if I connected with a client that claims to be version 0.1.1? ____________
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Wormholio Captain Send message Joined: 6 Jun 04 United States Away Credit: 4,009.8 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Jun 6, 2004 Verified: Mar 13, 2008 Dubloons: 3 Pieces of Eight: 10 Punishment: Aztec curse	Message 8066 - Posted: 20 Nov 2008 \| 13:09:10 UTC - in response to Message 8065.
Nicolas wrote: What would happen if I connected with a client that claims to be version 0.1.1? My algorithm for "what would happen" questions is something like if( !dangerous_chemicals && !high_voltage && !break_something ){ go_for_it(); } So good question. What would happen? ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats
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Wormholio Captain Send message Joined: 6 Jun 04 United States Away Credit: 4,009.8 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Jun 6, 2004 Verified: Mar 13, 2008 Dubloons: 3 Pieces of Eight: 10 Punishment: Aztec curse	Message 8067 - Posted: 20 Nov 2008 \| 13:14:33 UTC - in response to Message 8064.
Nicolas wrote: So? How is parsing scheduler replies a manager feature? Another good question. Maybe they reverted back on more than manager code? Maybe the bug was in display but not in processing the response? I don't know the details of how this bug works, I only observe that it looks like the same thing we've seen before. ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats
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Nicolas Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 05 Argentina The Final Front Ear Credit: 147.9 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Verified: NEVER	Message 8068 - Posted: 20 Nov 2008 \| 13:21:27 UTC - in response to Message 8063.
Pepo wrote: (exactly 2 weeks prior to this bug being repaired in 6.3.x trunk). That changeset is affects only server code! So it's irrelevant what they did with the core client versions; it's the Pirate ship that is lacking the fix. ____________
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Nicolas Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 05 Argentina The Final Front Ear Credit: 147.9 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Verified: NEVER	Message 8069 - Posted: 20 Nov 2008 \| 13:28:12 UTC - in response to Message 8066.
Wormholio wrote: Nicolas wrote: What would happen if I connected with a client that claims to be version 0.1.1? So good question. What would happen? I haven't seen your server code that detects the version number :) And anyway, I remembered that client claims to be 6.2.something in the scheduler request precisely to avoid this kind of problem. ____________
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Pepo Chief Petty Officer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 13 Sep 04 Slovakia TeamVision42 Credit: 924.2 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Sep 13, 2004 Verified: Aug 4, 2009 Dubloons: 3 Pieces of Eight: 5 Punishment: Cat o' Nine Tails	Message 8070 - Posted: 20 Nov 2008 \| 14:03:10 UTC
Well, I've not checked the exact code changes, neither back then nor now, I was not even aware that the changes applied just to the server code. My understanding was that it is clear that the client behaves incorrectly too (among others, by deleting existing team name) and had to be repaired as well (and I've naively thought that the client has been fixed too :-) ____________ Peter .-)
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Nicolas Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 05 Argentina The Final Front Ear Credit: 147.9 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Verified: NEVER	Message 8071 - Posted: 20 Nov 2008 \| 14:05:37 UTC - in response to Message 8070.
As I understand it: the client already worked correctly, by not changing the team name if there is no tag at all, and changing it to the empty string if there was an empty tag. The server was wrongly sending an empty tag instead of no tag at all if it hadn't even fetched that information from the database. ____________
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Wormholio Captain Send message Joined: 6 Jun 04 United States Away Credit: 4,009.8 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Jun 6, 2004 Verified: Mar 13, 2008 Dubloons: 3 Pieces of Eight: 10 Punishment: Aztec curse	Message 8072 - Posted: 20 Nov 2008 \| 15:59:25 UTC - in response to Message 8069. Last modified: 20 Nov 2008 \| 16:03:10 UTC
Nicolas wrote: I haven't seen your server code that detects the version number :) Well then check it out in the Pirates' Glossary: [[Scheduler restrictions]] ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats
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[size=-1]11/18/08 10:38:14 AM|Pirates@Home|Message from server: Your version of the BOINC core client (6.4.0) is disallowed.[/size]

Also seeing blank fields again:
[size=-1]11/18/08 10:38:14 AM|Pirates@Home|New computer location:[/size]

Most noticable is that team name is blank in manager.
Similar problem happened before:
Client restrictions
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Click and enter your name for your BOINC Statistics

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