Posts by dan Neely

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Message boards : Problems and bug reports : Unable to reattach the project
(Message 7126)
Posted 3 Feb 2021 by dan Neely
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I am getting error "Failed to add project. Please try again later." in BOINC. I can login via the web-site and see my account just fine.

There's a busted server, it says so on the main page. Quite what coronavirus has to do with it I've no idea, you can order parts online.


Getting access to the data center where the server needs to be installed could be a problem depending on how severe local lockdowns (both govt and institutional) area.

More speculative, but based on the number of problems this project's had in the past I don't think they have anyone who qualifies as an IT person supporting it, lack of setup needed to support remote admin (especially on the data recovery/etc side vs routine operations) wouldn't surprise me in the least.
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Message boards : Number crunching : Project Status
(Message 7125)
Posted 3 Feb 2021 by dan Neely
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It depends.

I have 12 tasks ready to report, all with a deadline of 2nd December. My task list shows them all as still being in progress, and all of the workunits show that the wingman task is waiting to be validated.

Getting credit for over deadline tasks depends on how quickly they are reported after the server programs are restarted. That will cause repair tasks to be generated for all of the over deadline tasks (according to the Server status page there are 514358 of them).

Over deadline tasks will only be ignored if they are returned after their repair task has been issued, returned and validated. Over deadline tasks reported before their workunit has been validated will be credited (as will any repair tasks which are returned before their deadline).


This sort of default behavior can be overridden by the server admins. Turning on the WU receive functions but not the part of the server that issues WUs for a few days would be the simplest option; but things like manually awarding credit for all tasks from a few months ago failed as late are possible as well.