(Yes I know it's alpha, but the alpha boards don't seem to be an active location for bug reports!)

Installed 5.7.5 as a service under Win XP SP2 on a brand-new dual Xeon workstation - 8 cores.

Attached to SETI (only) for the time being. First two WUs finished almost at the same time, and I got:

28/11/2006 12:48:47|SETI@home|Started upload of file 07jn03aa.5768.25602.767320.3.93_3_0
28/11/2006 12:48:47||Starting 07jn03aa.5768.25602.767320.3.92_0
28/11/2006 12:48:47|SETI@home|Starting task 07jn03aa.5768.25602.767320.3.92_0 using setiathome_enhanced version 517
28/11/2006 12:48:48|SETI@home|Started upload of file 07jn03aa.5768.25602.767320.3.92_0_0
28/11/2006 12:48:52|SETI@home|Error on file upload: socket read incomplete: asked for 11649, got 7425: No such file or directory
28/11/2006 12:48:52|SETI@home|Finished upload of file 07jn03aa.5768.25602.767320.3.93_3_0
28/11/2006 12:48:52|SETI@home|Throughput 9801 bytes/sec
28/11/2006 12:48:52|SETI@home|Temporarily failed upload of 07jn03aa.5768.25602.767320.3.92_0_0: transient upload error

in the message log.

It's a badly-written error message - from other checking, I think it means the uploaded file was shorter than expected (7425 bytes instead of 11649)

I also got some very odd information in the 'Tasks' tab of BOINC Manager:

BOINC Manager - (localhost)
CPU time: 00:01:25
Progress: 1.897%
To completion: ---
Report deadline: 02/12/2006 19:14:43
Status: Uploading

After a BOINC restart, I got:

28/11/2006 13:21:30|SETI@home|State file error: result 07jn03aa.5768.25602.767320.3.92_0 is in wrong state

and

CPU time: 01:43:28
Progress: 100.000%
To completion: ---
Report deadline: 02/12/2006 19:14:43
Status: Uploading

- but the upload kept on failing at about 75%, with the same error message in the log. In the end, I aborted it, and reverted down to BOINC 5.6.5 for the time being. I have fuller notes, and I'm willing to do more testing, if it would help.

Alpha email list is here.


Have you checked the Seti boards to see if anyone else is running into this?

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Kathryn :o)

Alpha email list is here.

Have you checked the Seti boards to see if anyone else is running into this?

Thanks for the link, but I think I'll keep in on the boards for now. I hope I may be able to contribute more to testing now I've got more cores, but I'll let it settle down a bit first.

I'm going to post it on SETI later, and possibly on lunatics.at (since it was one of Simon's apps that went belly-up). But I do read those (SETI) boards quite closely, and I haven't seen any similar report that I can recall. The unusual thing about the event was two results finishing within a second of each other, and I wondered if BOINC (or SETI, or Windows) got the two result files muddled up.

But that c**p error message is certainly all down to BOINC!

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