Am I the only one that cannot download tasks today from Milkyway and LHC, even though both sites indicate servers up and tasks available for download?

Version 6.12.34 x64 with BoincTasks 1.16.

MW uploading/downloading just tested fine for me

I was in a hurry when I posted this morning. Anyway, SETI, Einstein, and Cosmology projects are A-OK for my setup, no comm problems. So I was wondering if there is some strange preference setting I need to make to get tasks to download from Milkyway and LHC? Unfortunately there is a minimum credit limit that keeps me from posting on the Milkyway number-crunching board for help, so I thought I would try this board. Anybody have any ideas?

I was in a hurry when I posted this morning. Anyway, SETI, Einstein, and Cosmology projects are A-OK for my setup, no comm problems. So I was wondering if there is some strange preference setting I need to make to get tasks to download from Milkyway and LHC? Unfortunately there is a minimum credit limit that keeps me from posting on the Milkyway number-crunching board for help, so I thought I would try this board. Anybody have any ideas?

Maybe you were using a 3rd party app for MW...I would detach from MW completely and then re-attach to see if it helps.

Tried the detach, add project again for Milkyway, and something just is not right, I think. These are the messages when the project was added anew:

21-Oct-11 08:53:52 Fetching configuration file from http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/get_project_config.php

Then I got deferred for 00:01:32, and again for ~00:02:00, then finally deferred for 24:00:00! When I do a manual update, I get this:

Milkyway@home 21-Oct-11 09:00:28 update requested by user
Milkyway@home 21-Oct-11 09:00:32 Fetching scheduler list

at which point I get kicked on down the road (deferred) for another 24 hrs, when the site says servers are up with 2800+ tasks available for download. This makes no sense to me.

Pretty much the same thing happens with LHC/sixpack, that site's servers are up with 63,000+ tasks ready for download. Meanwhile, SETI, Einstein, and Cosmology keep cranking away happily. What am I doing wrong?

Could be a corrupt account_*.xml file.
Could be a corruption on the disk for where these files are written to.
In any case, try a chkdsk with all options on.

I have no problems uploading to LHC 1.0

21/10/2011 21:13:55 | LHC@home 1.0 | [fxd] starting upload, upload_offset -1
21/10/2011 21:13:55 | LHC@home 1.0 | Started upload of wfrank_w5cebbmassimo__1__s__64.31_59.32__8_10__6__40.5_1_sixvf_boinc7981_1_0
21/10/2011 21:13:55 | LHC@home 1.0 | [file_xfer] URL: http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack_cgi/file_upload_handler
21/10/2011 21:13:57 | LHC@home 1.0 | [file_xfer] http op done; retval 0 (Success)
21/10/2011 21:13:57 | LHC@home 1.0 | [file_xfer] parsing upload response: <data_server_reply> <status>0</status> <file_size>0</file_size></data_server_reply>
21/10/2011 21:13:57 | LHC@home 1.0 | [file_xfer] parsing status: 0
21/10/2011 21:13:57 | LHC@home 1.0 | [fxd] starting upload, upload_offset 0
21/10/2011 21:13:58 | LHC@home 1.0 | [file_xfer] http op done; retval 0 (Success)
21/10/2011 21:13:58 | LHC@home 1.0 | [file_xfer] parsing upload response: <data_server_reply> <status>0</status></data_server_reply>
21/10/2011 21:13:58 | LHC@home 1.0 | [file_xfer] parsing status: 0
21/10/2011 21:13:58 | LHC@home 1.0 | [file_xfer] file transfer status 0 (Success)
21/10/2011 21:13:58 | LHC@home 1.0 | Finished upload of wfrank_w5cebbmassimo__1__s__64.31_59.32__8_10__6__40.5_1_sixvf_boinc7981_1_0
21/10/2011 21:13:58 | LHC@home 1.0 | [file_xfer] Throughput 126314 bytes/sec
21/10/2011 21:13:58 | | [work_fetch] Request work fetch: project finished uploading
21/10/2011 21:13:58 | LHC@home 1.0 | [task] result state=FILES_UPLOADED for wfrank_w5cebbmassimo__1__s__64.31_59.32__8_10__6__40.5_1_sixvf_boinc7981_1 from CS::update_results

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How do you "attach" a computer after the project has been added, using BOINC Manager? I didn't have to do this for SETI, Einstein, or Cosmology. I must be missing something really simple here...

In the projects tab highlight Milkyway and click on Reset Project. Let us know what happens pls.

It defers for another 24 hrs.

OK, I tried that several times but to no avail.

Thanks to you all for your help and suggestions, perhaps I'll replace those 2 projects with something else that works.