Last night (California time) I d/l'd 69 WUs, of which 21 failed with <permanent HTTP error>. This is after >600 successful downloads to the same client Today all Asteroids downloads are failing. Upload & reporting of completed work is unaffected. Also after each failed download episode, the client is fetching a new scheduler list. Workunit details are typically listing multiple failed downloads.

Stderr of failed downloads reads (e.g.,):

<core_client_version>7.2.5</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
WU download error: couldn't get input files:
<file_xfer_error>
<file_name>input_17191_33</file_name>
<error_code>-224</error_code>
<error_message>permanent HTTP error</error_message>
</file_xfer_error>

</message>

Other projects are downloading without issue.

Illegitimi non carborundum.

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See

http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=119&postid=1655#1655

Thanks; I don't ususally look at stale (4 month old) threads for problems that (apparently re-)emerged yesterday. Silly me.

I won't question Kyong's logic in letting it play out this way, since it's his database getting hammered.

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I was thinking about it and it would be better to let it compute than cancelling all those WUs. It should be about 20 % of these bad WUs, so I would have to let it compute all later. If you can, just cancel of these WUs, it shoulndn't take long clear the queue.

I believe youi're right Kyong. On my last download, <10% were rejects :-D

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The failed work units began for me a day or two ago. Initially is was about 10% of the work units would fail in the down load. now it is 80 per cent or more

I've been having problems of Failed Downloads too; but only on Random ones. I think it may have something to do with TREND Micro Security, because I have been seeing Warning Messages Pop Up from TREND. The strange thing is, the rest of asteroidsathome Download are Unaffected. surely I don't need to Type In the Address of everyhing that Fails in the Exceptions List on TREND. That wouldn't make sense, because each is different. And if I just type in asteroids@home it may not recognise all the different Tasks as being SAFE.
It has happened a few times before (over the past couple of weeks or so), but usually when I'm not in front of my Computer. And when I return, there is a TREND Icon on The Toolbar which displays a separate Warning Popup for each Rejected Download. Each time I Click the 'OK' or 'Proceed Anyway' Button, and it shows The Next One.

Any Ideas?

Below is a section of my recent Event Log with the affected items in Bold.

10/09/2013 7:37:52 PM | Asteroids@home | Started download of input_18327_120
10/09/2013 7:37:53 PM | Asteroids@home | Finished download of input_18995_108
10/09/2013 7:37:53 PM | Asteroids@home | Giving up on download of input_18327_120: permanent HTTP error10/09/2013 7:37:53 PM | Asteroids@home | Started download of input_18995_172
10/09/2013 7:37:53 PM | Asteroids@home | Started download of input_18995_173
10/09/2013 7:37:54 PM | Asteroids@home | Finished download of input_18995_172
10/09/2013 7:37:54 PM | Asteroids@home | Finished download of input_18995_173
10/09/2013 7:37:54 PM | Asteroids@home | Started download of input_18403_13310/09/2013 7:37:54 PM | Asteroids@home | Started download of input_18996_17
10/09/2013 7:37:55 PM | Asteroids@home | Giving up on download of input_18403_133: permanent HTTP error
10/09/2013 7:37:55 PM | Asteroids@home | Started download of input_18996_18
10/09/2013 7:37:56 PM | Asteroids@home | Finished download of input_18996_17
10/09/2013 7:37:56 PM | Asteroids@home | Finished download of input_18996_18

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And when I return, there is a TREND Icon on The Toolbar which displays a separate Warning Popup for each Rejected Download.

It's false warning or maybe warning about error when downloading. For more info about these errors see previous posts.

I think that most of damaged workunits are gone now (fingers crossed). New workunits were added also.