Justakiwi
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|  [BOINC] Way too many "exited with zero status" errors
I'm crunching WCG (FA@H and the new cancer project) on my linux machine. Lately I'm getting more and more "exited with zero status" messages and discovering that some wu have been crunching over and over for days and STILL haven't managed to complete successfully. Occasionally they eventually DO complete, but nine times out of ten I end up aborting them.
I've reset the project but it's made no difference. I'm seriously starting to wonder if maybe it's a BOINC issue, rather than a WCG one. Has anyone ever experienced a "broken" BOINC before?
My other Windows machine is crunching rosetta@Home with no problems.
I don't care about the stats at all, but it seems to be an awful waste of crunching time crunching wu over and over like this - I'm not contributing much to the project this way.
Any ideas? 
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Xaak
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September 17th, @10:39AM
| Carren,
What version of BOINC are you running?
There seems to be some issues with hybernation and suspend modes, where boinc's internal timers get messed up, or from using time servers which will automatically adjust your system clock to match a reference clock. But it seems that this is only on older versions of BOINC. I can't find any reference to wu problems causing this, but you never know.
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Justakiwi
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| said by Xaak  :Carren, What version of BOINC are you running? There seems to be some issues with hybernation and suspend modes, where boinc's internal timers get messed up, or from using time servers which will automatically adjust your system clock to match a reference clock. But it seems that this is only on older versions of BOINC. I can't find any reference to wu problems causing this, but you never know. I'm using the latest version 5.4.9 (Linux version).
I don't use any hibernation/suspend - the only power saving setting I use is my monitor powers off after 15 minutes. My machine is on 24/7.
Time servers aren't an issue as I still haven't figured out how to get them to work in SUSE  (If anyone knows how to get them to work, let me know!)
I don't know what the problem is, but it's starting to get annoying.
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September 17th, @10:40AM
| Have you rebooted yet? It may fix the problem. I was getting a lot of those on this machine with both Rosetta and Einstein. Pretty sure it's BOINC conflicting with something else or just a BOINC bug. I rebooted a short time ago to see if that fixes the problem. |
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