Hello everyone, i'm motionSymmetry.

I just attached to FreeHAL about 3 days ago and altho it seems to be crunching i'm having a problem.

Problem: The project won't show any credit, but most task are requesting zero credit or have hyphens in the request credit column in My Account on the FreeHAL site. All task show Success as the outcome but zero credit is awarded for all tasks.

The thing is, the project always requests 1 second of work, the tasks run from zero seconds to about 15 seconds, and when I look at one of the tasks that has had a real runtime, its outcome is a Success, and it shows as valid, I get something like this in stderr out:

<core_client_version>6.2.19</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<stderr_txt>
Unrecognized XML in parse_init_data_file: computation_deadline
Skipping: 1227848058.136000
Skipping: /computation_deadline
Unrecognized XML in GLOBAL_PREFS::parse_override: mod_time
Skipping: /mod_time
Unrecognized XML in GLOBAL_PREFS::parse_override: max_ncpus_pct
Skipping: 100.000000
Skipping: /max_ncpus_pct
wrapper: starting
unable to open boot.pid
wrapper: running .\runner.exe (batch)
.\runner.exe: creation of private temporary subdirectory C:\Windows\TEMP\par-SYSTEM\cache-29333e5a5f9dbdeaa6086152e03c8064d189dd31 failed - aborting with 2.
unable to open boot.pid
unable to open output.txt
found 0
found:0
app exit status: 0x2

</stderr_txt>
]]>


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I've also noticed that on the server status page for FreeHAL the app /usr/local/bin/freehal_validator is not running. Is that app on *my* box?

What i've done to try and solve this problem: I detached and reattached. Rebooted.

I'm running Vista SP1 and BoincManager 6.2.19.

I also tried posting in the FH forums but i'm still waiting for the confirmation email. And yes, I realize they are beta and have been dealing with server-side issues, but talking with other members of Calm Chaos, my team, who have similar setups indicates that they are not having these problems.

So I posted here.

Hope this is the right place.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Regards.

Hi motionSymmetry,

FreeHAL writes temporary files in C:\Windows\TEMP\ or another directory specified in the system preferences (environment variables). The user under which BOINC runs has no right to create files there:



Please look at C:\Windows\TEMP and grant all users the permission to write there

Best regards
Tobias Schulz

Mystery solved!

Thank you, Tobias. FreeHAL is now happily crunching away.

Is there any special settings I have to make to get the FreeHal Wu's to run long enough to Validate & get Credit, Tobias said something about:



Most of the Wu's I run either don't Validate or they Validate but don't recieve any Credit, Tobias told me:



He's basically claiming it's on my end I guess by his response but I don't have any problems with any other Projects. Maybe using Comcast has something to do with it but other people muct be using Comcast too I would think ... Anybody know what to do about it ... ??? ... Thank's

I use Comcast, and crunch FreeHAL with no errors. XP64 is the OS I am using, FWIW.

Same here Zombie, running XP64 on all my Box's, I noticed your Box's there where running okay so I don't have any Idea why mine aren't, maybe their Overclocked to much, but I doubt that as 1 Box is Bone Stock running and it was getting the errors too ... Might be 1 Project I'll have to let you go on as I have to Process a couple dozen Wu's just to get 2 or 3 Credits ... ... Never have had any luck running the Project from it's start till now ...

My dual Xeons are not OC (obviously), but all my C2Qs are OC mildly.