Posts by den777

1) Message boards : Number crunching : How to Restore Access to a Blocked Host? (Message 11748)
Posted 19 Aug 2025 by Profile den777
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If any of them have this reset the project. I had this today and had it on random PCs for awhile but I haven't had any for some time
WUProp@Home 8/14/2025 3:33:04 PM Scheduler request to https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/wuproj_cgi/cgi failed: Server returned nothing (no headers, no data)

I experience this message only on my Linux computer about once a month, especially after the project servers have been off-line for whatever length of time.

What I do is stop & exit BOINC, reboot computer & restart BOINC. Then it's fine until the next CloudFlare or servers burping.


I get the same error regularly on Linux hosts (two times last week for example). Restarting boinc client is enough to fix, until the next case. It happens only with this project, other projects work fine.
No, reboot or project reset is not needed.
No, it is not Cloudflare or project server "burping", otherwise local restart wouldn't help.
Yes, it is getting annoying, I do not want to babysit computer 24/7.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 9041)
Posted 14 May 2022 by Profile den777
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It works perfectly both on Linux and Windows. LODA 2205.13
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Yoyo news on twitter (Message 8482)
Posted 24 Oct 2021 by Profile den777
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So if you need some ecm or Siever tasks to reach a new badge you better get busy

Doesn't it mean the opposite?

https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo//all_news.php#318
I see currently no end in further demands for sieving and trial factorizations. There are many many math projects which have needs for sieving and factorizations
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4) Message boards : Number crunching : a way to only get a certain type of task at a Project (Message 8445)
Posted 13 Oct 2021 by Profile den777
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As far as I know, nope. If project does not provide option to select apps (like Rosetta) and does not allow anonymous platform with custom app_info.xml (like Rosetta), it can't be helped.
Of course it is possible to write a script to monitor current running boinc tasks and cancelling "bad tasks" but it is complicated...

Btw, does wuprop count hours from anonymous platforms? I suppose no, because elsewhere you can easily cheat wuprop with anonymous custom app that does nothing for N hours.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Scheduler request failed: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates (Message 8360)
Posted 30 Sep 2021 by Profile den777
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Other projects are affected too, but only on Windows, while Linux boxes are running fine.
Looks like ca-bundle.crt shipped with windows boinc client is outdated. I fixed this problem by copying /etc/ssl/certs/ca-ceritificates.crt from Linux to C:\Program Files\BOINC\ca-bundle.crt

Btw, this is working ca-bundle.crt (taken from Ubuntu 21.04) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-zirSeFwap21lRABRLD6k_nlOHlXRLFe/view
(use it only if you trust me, ofc ;))
6) Message boards : Number crunching : advise me please on a Linux issues (Message 7760)
Posted 17 Jan 2021 by Profile den777
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Question: What Linux distro do you recommend that will give excellent diagnostic messages upon failed restart and makes valiant attempts at corruption repairs?

It is not about distro, it is about initialization system. Almost all of mainstream linux distros adopted systemd as init system, so they all behave almost in the same way now. Mint is not an exception.

TThrotle replacements

There is no such thing for Linux =( So I wrote my own script ;) which reads CPU temperature and dynamically applies cpu quota on boinc-client.service control group.
Btw, you can install thermald if you care about critical overheating.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 7643)
Posted 20 Dec 2020 by Profile den777
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There is also another pair of dupe apps.
sidock RxDock on BOINC
and
SiDock@home RxDock on BOINC
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Shutting BOINC Down on a Linux Box ??? (Message 7449)
Posted 29 Sep 2020 by Profile den777
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These have always worked for me:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Stop_or_start_BOINC_daemon_after_boot
sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client start


That wiki article is horribly outdated :/
For Debian/Ubuntu it should be:
systemctl start/stop boinc-client for manual start/stop
systemctl enable/disable boinc-client for enable/disable autostart
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Shutting BOINC Down on a Linux Box ??? (Message 7448)
Posted 29 Sep 2020 by Profile den777
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Laughed so much from this thread. It was war with imaginary mills, indeed.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 7337)
Posted 4 Sep 2020 by Profile den777
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New apps from NFS@Home 15e Lattice Sieve for smaller numbers and 16e Lattice Sieve for smaller numbers
https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/forum_thread.php?id=775
11) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 7170)
Posted 24 Jun 2020 by Profile den777
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Minecraft@Home launched
https://minecraftathome.com/minecrafthome/forum_thread.php?id=2
12) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 7108)
Posted 24 Apr 2020 by Profile den777
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ibercivis has a new app: Covid-Phym, Fight against SARS-CoV-2 replication
https://boinc.ibercivis.es/ibercivis/forum_thread.php?id=7
13) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 7035)
Posted 16 Mar 2020 by Profile den777
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I have not been able to find any information about it anywhere


https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/forum_thread.php?id=191&postid=6320#6320
14) Message boards : News : Application updated (Message 6954)
Posted 13 Nov 2019 by Profile den777
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Does anyone have a theory why not ?

Not a theory, but fact - this site is abandoned.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : LHC@Home Theory Native ??? (Message 6644)
Posted 21 Apr 2019 by Profile den777
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I have no idea what I started or didn't start. I really don't know anything about Linux or the commands needed to run certain things.

I asked a simple question: did you run "cvmfs_config setup" as described in the guide here https://cvmfs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/cpt-quickstart.html? Some people (including me) miss this step at first time.
The guide also says "reload the autofs service in order to apply an updated configuration" without specifying how to do this, it should be "systemctl restart autofs". And finally you can check status with "systemctl status autofs"
16) Message boards : Number crunching : LHC@Home Theory Native ??? (Message 6641)
Posted 21 Apr 2019 by Profile den777
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Looks like you didn't start autofs service. Did you do cvmfs_config setup?
17) Message boards : Number crunching : LHC@Home Theory Native ??? (Message 6622)
Posted 9 Apr 2019 by Profile den777
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dpkg: error: dpkg frontend is locked by another process

Obviously, there is another process locking dpkg database. And reinstalling the whole system will not help you. Did you install desktop Ubuntu? There is usually process like "apt-daemon" or whatever (i dont remember exactly) which locks dpkg database and don't allow you to use apt-get or even dpkg. This daemon is supposed to be helper for desktop "Software Center" or whatever it is called now or some kind of autoupdater. Just one of the desktop Ubuntu stupidities. Find it, kill it and try again, and do not ignore errors.

PS: Last time I used Ubuntu as a desktop, the first thing I did after installation is to uninstall all that "user-friendly" bloatware daemons, auto-updaters and so on, lol. Good old aptitude (pseudo-graphical version of apt-get) ftw.

PPS: I installed everyting for Theory Native on my home Ubuntu Server 18.04 some days ago and everything is working fine.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 6433)
Posted 5 Feb 2019 by Profile den777
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Brainstorm@home
http://brainstormhome.org

Another virtualbox project 😕
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Android BOINC Files Location ? (Message 6143)
Posted 7 Jun 2018 by Profile den777
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it is standard default path for android
use file manager which can access the whole filesystem (probably with root)
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Android BOINC Files Location ? (Message 6139)
Posted 6 Jun 2018 by Profile den777
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/data/data/edu.berkeley.boinc


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