Last night, I sent the account below to the BOINC Core Clent Message Board. One reply suggested that BOINC client didn't touch the account files very often and suggested posting on the BAM forums (should be fora!) as well. The BOINC manager on the computer in question still fails when I try to synchronise with BAM, with the error message:

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Failed to update account Manager
An error has occurred,please check the messages tab for further details.
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Original message set to BOINC Core Client Message Board:

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I am running BOINC 5.4.9 on an Apple Dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4 processor using Mac OS X 10.4.7. Recently, I set up BOINCStats BAM to synchronise all four of my networked computers, so there may be some problem arising from the synchronisation, although I can't see anything wrong with the BAM data when I log in to BAM, and it has been running for several days now.

I am running four projects on this machine, Seti@Home, Einstein@Home, World Communit Grid, and SZTAKI Desktop Grid. SZTAKI gets 50% of my resources and the others share the remaining 50%, but SZTAKI is usually timing out on CPU total time, or running late (as it is now). Thus, recently BOINC entered its procedure to try and reach the deadline for the SZTAKI Desktop Grid WU.

Last night sometime, I lost the Seti@Home project, so I did an orderly shutdown and rebooted my machine at around 17:00 my time.

I got the following relevant messages, indicating that account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml was corrupted:

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Wed 23 Aug 17:04:35 2006||Starting BOINC client version 5.4.9 for powerpc-apple-darwin
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:35 2006||libcurl/7.15.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7i zlib/1.2.3
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:35 2006||Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:36 2006||Couldn't parse account file account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:38 2006||Project for statistics file statistics_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml not found - ignoring
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006|SETI@home|Project SETI@home is in state file but no account file found
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006||Application setiathome_enhanced outside project in state file
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006||File info outside project in state file
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006||File info outside project in state file
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006||File info outside project in state file
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006||File info outside project in state file
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006||File info outside project in state file
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006||File info outside project in state file
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006||File info outside project in state file
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006||File info outside project in state file
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006||Application version outside project in state file
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006||Workunit outside project in state file
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006||Task 19ap06aa.18683.9569.73576.3.134_2 outside project in state file
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006||State file error: project http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ not found
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006||Processor: 2 Power Macintosh PowerMac3,6
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006||Memory: 1.00 GB physical, 0 bytes virtual
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:40 2006||Disk: 74.40 GB total, 12.32 GB free
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:41 2006|Einstein@Home|URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID: 414333; location: New:; project prefs: default
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:41 2006|SZTAKI Desktop Grid|URL: http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/; Computer ID: 147117; location: home; project prefs: default
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:41 2006|World Community Grid|URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 55465; location: home; project prefs: home
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:41 2006||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 2006-08-16 09:55:46)
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:41 2006||General prefs: using separate prefs for home
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:43 2006||Listening on port 31416
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:43 2006|World Community Grid|Resuming task faah0764_bdb190_mx1gnn_dry_01_1 using faah version 510
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:44 2006|SZTAKI Desktop Grid|Resuming task ab094285-a60b-418b-a548-bec0c0d6271d_05a8efd8-f727-4461-9d73-d691132f8248_1184_4 using search version 200
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:46 2006||Contacting account manager at http://bam.boincstats.com/
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:46 2006||Using earliest-deadline-first scheduling because computer is overcommitted.
Wed 23 Aug 17:04:46 2006||Suspending work fetch because computer is overcommitted.
Wed 23 Aug 17:06:47 2006||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
Wed 23 Aug 17:06:47 2006||Access to reference web site failed - check network connection or proxy configuration.
Wed 23 Aug 17:06:47 2006||Account manager error: http error

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Indeed, the file appears to have been overwritten with the statistics_einstein.phys.uwm.edu.xml file. See the first few lines below:

account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml
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<project_statistics>
<master_url>http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/</master_url>
<daily_statistics>
<day>1153180800.000000</day>
<user_total_credit>68486.004429</user_total_credit>
<user_expavg_credit>360.044589</user_expavg_credit>
<host_total_credit>32747.211497</host_total_credit>
<host_expavg_credit>189.910476</host_expavg_credit>
</daily_statistics>
...

All other Seti@Home files appear to be in one piece. Now, my BOINC Manager cannot synchronise with BAM, and I can't figure out how to restore my Seti@Home Project.

Wed 23 Aug 17:19:19 2006||Contacting account manager at http://bam.boincstats.com/
Wed 23 Aug 17:21:19 2006||Account manager error: http error


Any help greatly appreciated.

George
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I have just looked at the Boinc managers on the three other machines on my BAM account, and note that they, too, have been unable to contact BAM. Last contact is

22-08-2006, ranging between 19:40:19 and 20:12:39.

On the three machines that I have been able to examine the BOINC manager messages, they are the same error messages I get on the Mac G4.

Sounds to me that BAM is stuffing up bad, but have no idea where to go from here.

George
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Fixed today (2006-08-28 03:30 UT) after bug report 12 hours ago!

Thanks,

George
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