Posts by Dark Angel
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(Message 9215)
Posted 29 Sep 2025 by Dark Angel Post: You can't import something you don't have access to. Making those exported files available is part of the exporting process. They're not available because the admin never finished the job and thus they are not being properly exported. |
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(Message 9214)
Posted 29 Sep 2025 by Dark Angel Post:
Really doesn't change the crux of what I said now does it. The certificate that is required has not been installed, the upgrade job is not finished, and the admin walked off. If this was a commercial server the sysadmin would be talking very quickly to try and save their job. |
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(Message 9202)
Posted 28 Sep 2025 by Dark Angel Post: The Stat's information has not been updated in 7 days it appears Since nobody can pull those stats, because the correct certificate was never applied by the administrator, rather by definition that means they have not been exported 'fine'. |
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(Message 9177)
Posted 26 Sep 2025 by Dark Angel Post: There is going to be a big maintenance starting 2025-08-17 and it will take about 1 - 2 weeks. We'll be doing upgrade of Debian and BOINC server. We are going to make complete backup before that which will take some time. Unfortunately the job isn't finished as all the required server certificates were not updated. |
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(Message 9175)
Posted 26 Sep 2025 by Dark Angel Post: I installed this work around on my Debian 12 machines and it works. Does not work on Debian 10 machines however. The system administrator hasn't updated the certificate on the boinc server, only the forum server. They didn't finish the job. |
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(Message 9157)
Posted 24 Sep 2025 by Dark Angel Post: Not my solution as such, you can find the steps here: https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=1153#9137 |
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(Message 9155)
Posted 24 Sep 2025 by Dark Angel Post: Had to use a third part certificate work-around to get any work and the stats pages linked to in our profiles still can't access the exported data, likely because of the same missing certificates. |
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(Message 9122)
Posted 19 Sep 2025 by Dark Angel Post: Fri 19 Sep 2025 20:40:07 | Asteroids@home | Scheduler request to http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc_cgi/cgi failed: SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK |
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Posted 27 Jun 2025 by Dark Angel Post: I've got more than enough real world things to deal with instead of hunting for current source code and compiling something myself that should have been distributed by the project. I've already reset the project once. |
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(Message 9037)
Posted 26 Jun 2025 by Dark Angel Post: Still happening, 8 days later. That's really poor form. <core_client_version>8.1.0</core_client_version> <![CDATA[ <message> process exited with code 2 (0x2, -254)</message> <stderr_txt> Error: Number of lc points is greater than POINTS_MAX = 2000 </stderr_txt> ]]> |
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Posted 26 Jun 2025 by Dark Angel Post: Same failure happening on nVidia Cuda work units https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/result.php?resultid=586852324 <core_client_version>8.1.0</core_client_version> <![CDATA[ <message> process exited with code 2 (0x2, -254)</message> <stderr_txt> Error: Number of lc points is greater than POINTS_MAX = 2000 </stderr_txt> ]]> System has been rebooted, SMP disabled, tried with and without local network proxy, rebooted proxy, and rebooted network router. Some work units complete successfully but many do not. |
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Posted 25 Jun 2025 by Dark Angel Post: Getting a lot of these errors now Sounds like badly misconfigured work units. |
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Posted 14 Mar 2025 by Dark Angel Post: For the last ... well it's been months, the server is more down than up, logs choked full, unable to upload work, unable to get work, even completely unreachable. What used to be a solid and reliable project is now obviously so low a priority for the admins they might as well let the cleaner unplug the server to charge their phone! Does this research simply not matter to anyone any more?! |
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(Message 8335)
Posted 29 Mar 2024 by Dark Angel Post: Since bizarrely it needs to be said, the vast majority of projects in the BOINC ecosystem are doing valuable science. What keeps people on one project or another are various combinations of personal interest and the flashy trinkets ie the badges. With the change here to "credit new" and the resulting significant drop in credit returns it has made getting those shiny trinkets absurdly more difficult and makes it virtually impossible to climb the leader board against existing members that have achieved scores under the old system that are FAR more difficult to achieve under the new despite significant advances in hardware. It's an almost 7 times reduction in returned credit (6.8 to be closer). It's like the project increased the credit required to get recognition 6.8 times what it states in the description. Quite simply, it's unfair, insulting to members, and demonstrates that the admin team can't be bothered changing the BOINC server settings from the default to maintain consistency. This wasn't a change to "better reflect" anything, it was laziness and nothing more. |
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(Message 8281)
Posted 8 Mar 2024 by Dark Angel Post: Another one here, trouble getting to the site unless I step past several warnings about expired ssl certificates and cannot upload completed work. All uploads fail with "transient HTTP error". Hitting Update results in: Fri 08 Mar 2024 21:24:24 | Asteroids@home | Scheduler request to http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc_cgi/cgi failed: SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK |
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(Message 7362)
Posted 18 Nov 2022 by Dark Angel Post: Actually the project is now using the most resent Credit System, provided by Boinc. The Credit New system and it's ease for cheating is the reason LHC@Home was dropped by Gridcoin with a significant loss of computing resources for the project. Your previous system, with fixed credit for validated work was far "more fair and bulletproof to cheating". The one and only reason any project uses Credit New is because it's the default. All you have to do to abuse Credit New is keep creating new clients. You don't need new machines, just wipe the old client and start fresh. It's trivial. |
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(Message 7349)
Posted 17 Nov 2022 by Dark Angel Post: Wonderful! So when is the messed up credit going to be fixed? We're getting about 1/7th of the return for the same work units compared to before the crash. |
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(Message 7326)
Posted 16 Nov 2022 by Dark Angel Post: Is there a reason this project is returning such low credit? I don't mean compared to any other project, I mean to itself. Each unit used to be worth 480 credits, now I'm seeing less than one sixth of that per unit after the restart. |
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(Message 7271)
Posted 22 Oct 2022 by Dark Angel Post: Sat 22 Oct 2022 14:28:00 | Asteroids@home | Fetching scheduler list Sat 22 Oct 2022 14:28:02 | Asteroids@home | Master file download succeeded Sat 22 Oct 2022 14:28:07 | Asteroids@home | Sending scheduler request: Project initialization. Sat 22 Oct 2022 14:28:07 | Asteroids@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU Sat 22 Oct 2022 14:28:14 | Asteroids@home | [error] No start tag in scheduler reply Something's not right with the scheduler |
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(Message 7153)
Posted 26 Feb 2021 by Dark Angel Post: This user http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/show_user.php?userid=464084 has attempted to take the captaincy of our team. We do not know who they are, they are not one of us and tried to take the captaincy the first day they joined the team. Is there any way they can be barred for misconduct? |
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