Posts by Dr Who Fan

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Badge upgrades thread (Message 12568)
Posted 4 hours ago by Dr Who Fan
Post:
I can't check your apps but it seems that your 15th star has turn Silver.

Congratulations and well done

Conan

Thank you for the correction.

Yes, it was #15, it just had not registered on the icons/badges when I originally posted.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Badge upgrades thread (Message 12565)
Posted 1 day ago by Dr Who Fan
Post:
My 14th star finally turned silver
3) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 12537)
Posted 7 days ago by Dr Who Fan
Post:
I can't get Boinc to install it on any pc so far, Linux or Windows, once I get that done I can copy the relevant files and just drop it into all my pc's in the correct folder.

I had that problem once before with projects that require a code/passphrase on the registration page.

*** Solution is to open the website in your favorite web browser and manually register your account and set up various preferences before attaching my PC's.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 12532)
Posted 7 days ago by Dr Who Fan
Post:
Another new one:
"BitBOINC" https://bitboinc.athena.org.tr/

lots of platforms supported for 2 CPU apps with work available:
Potamos (sequential keyspace scan)
Keraunos (bounded discrete-log search)

2 GPU apps seem to be on the way soon:
Potamos GPU (sequential keyspace scan, CUDA)
Potamos Metal (sequential keyspace scan, Apple GPU)


Not sure that is a actual BOINC Project ? Makes no mention of BOINC just BitBoinc ???

Yes it's a BOINC project and WuProp already recognized the project
https://wuprop.statseb.fr/forum_thread.php?id=351&postid=12529
The application Potamos (sequential keyspace scan) from project bitboinc is active
5) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 12527)
Posted 8 days ago by Dr Who Fan
Post:
That's why the post with the code was linked, not the project home page which does not have the code.

You can NOT read the forums without first going through registration & logging in.

That's why I mentioned that the code was available on the home page (when NOT logged in).
6) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 12525)
Posted 8 days ago by Dr Who Fan
Post:
New Project
https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/forum_thread.php?id=1

Credit is quite low below creditscrew. Windows/Linux CPU. Multiple app updates today.

Needs INVITATION CODE TO JOIN. - can be found on project HOME PAGE.
Need to login to view forums.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : hours not being reported (Message 12517)
Posted 12 days ago by Dr Who Fan
Post:
I have been running a
Sierpinski / Riesel Base - long3 from project SRBase
Tasks for over 50 hours now and still not showing up / counting hours on my main / home tasks page but it's showing hours on the device page.
74	SRBase	Sierpinski / Riesel Base - long3	6,519.55		0.00


Why does it show ONLY ON THE DEVICE PAGE??
SRBase	Sierpinski / Riesel Base - long3	80.28 (61.93%)
8) Message boards : Number crunching : SidDock (Message 12509)
Posted 15 days ago by Dr Who Fan
Post:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu//forum_thread.php?id=15727&postid=120112
Natalia - Posted: 17 Sep 2026, 8:56:05 UTC: wrote:
Dear all, we are experiencing technical problems with SiDock@home. The new SSDs seem to have failed. The team is working on recovering the data. We will upgrade the discs, too. We are really sorry for the inconvenience!
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Primary BOINC site (Message 12490)
Posted 25 days ago by Dr Who Fan
Post:
The primary web site for BOINC at https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Is Back Online!!
10) Message boards : Number crunching : hours not being reported (Message 12486)
Posted 27 days ago by Dr Who Fan
Post:
So far my Linux box completed 2 tasks under v4.37 lasting right about 1 hour.

But the total for the last 24 "wall" hours is still stuck on 35.70 hours out of 46 to 48 hours expected.[/quote]
11) Message boards : Number crunching : hours not being reported (Message 12484)
Posted 27 days ago by Dr Who Fan
Post:
My Linux box first received a 4.37 version on it's last contact about 50 minutes ago. We will see how that works out.

There's two Linux apps currently available.
* One is a beta test:
Linux running on an AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPU 4.39 (nci) 6 Sep 2026, 10:02:21 UTC

* The other is the current '"main / stable" version:
Linux running on an AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPU 4.37 (nci) 8 Sep 2026, 15:33:47 UTC
12) Message boards : Number crunching : hours not being reported (Message 12479)
Posted 27 days ago by Dr Who Fan
Post:
I can confirm same problem with hours not being reported by the WuProp 4.36 version on Linux.

It seems hit and miss as to if the tasks will run for the usual 1 hour or something different.

All the 1+ hour tasks have this in the Stderr output: Activite reseau suspendue : -1

Here is the Stderr output of a v4.36 task that took over 1 hour to complete:
<core_client_version>8.2.5</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<stderr_txt>
09:36:21 (1029252): initialisation
Erreur assignation taille wu
Erreur assignation taille application
09:43:21 (1029252): Erreur reception active_result
10:36:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:37:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:38:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:39:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:40:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:41:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:42:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:43:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:44:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:45:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:46:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:47:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:48:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:49:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:50:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:51:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:52:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:53:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:54:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:55:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:56:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:57:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:58:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
10:59:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
11:00:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
11:01:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
11:02:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
11:03:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
11:04:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
11:05:21 (1029252): Activite reseau suspendue : -1
Erreur assignation taille wu
Erreur assignation taille application
11:06:21 (1029252): called boinc_finish(0)

</stderr_txt>
]]>


Here is the Stderr output of a v4.36 task that took 1 hour to complete: 
<core_client_version>8.2.5</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<stderr_txt>
12:06:53 (1107107): initialisation
Erreur assignation taille wu
Erreur assignation taille application
Erreur assignation taille wu
Erreur assignation taille application
13:06:53 (1107107): called boinc_finish(0)

</stderr_txt>
]]>
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Primary BOINC site (Message 12465)
Posted 5 Sep 2026 by Dr Who Fan
Post:
Been down for almost 3 days now. They are aware of the problem.

Jord posted this yesterday on the SETI website forum
(website login required to view most of not all forum pages due to bot activity)
If I may finally post here without connection errors, what's going on I don't know, but I did hear back this can take a day and maybe more than that to be fixed.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Project Preferences (Message 12393)
Posted 21 Jul 2026 by Dr Who Fan
Post:
WUProp forces itself to be the parent project.

Have you tried updating your web preferences at another project site and then force an update for that project in BOINC Manager (even if you don't want more work from that project) see if the settings propagate to your computer(s)?
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Project Preferences (Message 12389)
Posted 21 Jul 2026 by Dr Who Fan
Post:
Are you sure you are making changes to
* Preferences for this project WUProp@Home preferences?
and not
* When and how BOINC uses your computer Computing preferences?

If you modify the later preference it WILL override as they are GLOBAL...
Computing preferences
* These settings apply to all computers using this account except
computers where you have set preferences locally using the BOINC Manager
* Android devices
16) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Android WU crashes (Message 12376)
Posted 18 Jul 2026 by Dr Who Fan
Post:
4 GB is more than enough RAM to run BOINC for any of the current projects that support Android. None of mine have more than 4GB.

Your Android device I mentioned in the previous post #351582 was working up until 16 Jul 2026, 4:12:08 UTC. Every task since then error out with only 2 seconds run time. Looking at the task list for the device... Something changed after that time.

Maybe try powering down (hard shut down - power off) and restarting the device if that hasn't been done in a while. I usually power down and restart my 3 Android phones at least once a month to keep them running smoothly.

How many tasks are you trying to run st the same time?

For my two 8 core phones, I can only run 3 consecutive tasks + one WuProp before they go to thermal overload.

Your problem device(s) won't get new task for 24 hours from the last invalid one returned and will keep on the 86,400 second time out each time until it returns a good/valid tasks.
17) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Android WU crashes (Message 12374)
Posted 17 Jul 2026 by Dr Who Fan
Post:
The problem is that no project admin tells something about.
The units with the two french erreurs will be counted normal on one of my devices (Boinc 8.2.8).
But now i have two devices where units crash and wil not count.
One of them don't get any new tasks at all from WUProp.
Both machines have Boinc 8.2.11 may that is the problem ?

I agree with your statement "The problem is that no project admin tells something about." I'm not sure if Sebastian or any other possible admin reads the forums.

I don't think it's something specific to version 8.2.11 is the problem. If I recall I started noticing my error messages sometime after installing version 8.0.x. I currently run 8.2.12 on my 3 Android phones.

Tried beta 8.2.15 but had to uninstall and downgrade to .12 again due to BOINC Android would only run one or two tasks before receiving the "swap file error message,"

On the 2 devices you are having problems with make sure the box is checked for "Enable Remote Control" Under the Advanced options in the Android app. If not checked the WuProp tasks will error out and fail.

I see your device #351582 running Android
4.14.116 (Android 10)
is error out all tasks with
"Aucun projet actif"
Translated to 'No active projects".
If no other project tasks other than WuProp are running or the remote control is not enabled you won't get any credit for WuProp.
18) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Android WU crashes (Message 12372)
Posted 17 Jul 2026 by Dr Who Fan
Post:
I see the same error message in all my successfully completed Android tasks.

I had posted in number crunching about something similar.
https://wuprop.statseb.fr/forum_thread.php?id=753&postid=12356

The English translation of the error message my apps keep showing in the std-err message that's reported on the website.:
WU size assignment error
Application size assignment error
19) Message boards : Number crunching : cpdn app ? (Message 12356)
Posted 1 Jul 2026 by Dr Who Fan
Post:
I see this same two sets of "error messages" in my WuProp completed apps all the time.
So far they all validate and receive credit.
The English translation is:
WU size assignment error
Application size assignment error
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Account creation disabled? (Message 12343)
Posted 25 Jun 2026 by Dr Who Fan
Post:
I can also confirm that account creation is disabled.


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