Building a new box with Ubuntu 10.4 I'm putting BOINC on it to test stability a little, and when idle. Connecting up, it gets bad URLs from my projects.
Fri 21 May 2010 04:30:55 PM PDT Fetching configuration file from http://www.gridrepublic.org/get_project_config.phpFri 21 May 2010 04:31:20 PM PDT Contacting account manager at http://www.gridrepublic.org/Fri 21 May 2010 04:31:22 PM PDT Account manager contact succeededFri 21 May 2010 04:31:22 PM PDT [error] Bad signature for URL http://climateprediction.net/Fri 21 May 2010 04:31:22 PM PDT [error] Bad signature for URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/Fri 21 May 2010 04:31:22 PM PDT [error] Bad signature for URL http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/Fri 21 May 2010 04:31:22 PM PDT [error] Bad signature for URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/
And when I tried to have it run Rosetta by connecting manually, nothing but restarting the jobs all the time. Resetting the project did not help.
I'm not going to upgrade my other Ubuntu system, until I get this one running. That one is one the same network, and working fine. x64 based Ubuntu as well, but still at 9.10. Any ideas of what I should check?
The URLs are the correct ones for attaching to those projects so that isn't it.
How are you going about installing BOINC and what version?
Just installed the package from the Package Manager on Ubu 10.4. boinc --version says it is 6.10.17, versus 6.4.5 on my Ubu 9.04 box.
Sounds like BOINC Mgr has the problem. Cause the URLs are correct, but why the Mgr gives a bad checksum seems strange.
Like I said, I was able to attach to Rosetta manually, but the the computations kept restarting so I detached. I've manually attached to ClimatePrediction for a while, to see if that compute space is good with the 32-bit libs.
Getting same issue on a couple of freshly installed Ubuntu Lucid machines.
Oddly I have Boinc installed on a couple of other machines running Lucid that where upgraded from Karmic and they are working fine so it does appear to be an issue only on fresh installations from my cases.
Looks like a solution has been put on the Ubuntu community forums. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/111283
Seems like the method is to Uninstall BOINC, then manually reinstall, then install the new patch? from http://boinc.berkeley.edu. I'll have to get to it tomorrow. But just looking now I don't see the update shell script on the BOINC site.
thanks for the suggested fix.
just a head's up -- if, upon reinstall, you don't get attached to GR, pls do remember to use tools > attach to account manager and then attach to www.gridrepublic.org ~
Okay, had to upgrade. Now it is working, so whatever bug is in the 10.4 distro version (6.10.17) is fixed in 6.10.56. Here are the steps.
There is a bug filed for this issue on Launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boinc/+bug/585547
No sign of a workaround on there but at least it's been noted and a possible solution via Synaptic *may* become available :-)
Someone on the bug for this logged on Launchpad has found a PPA with the new client in :-)
https://launchpad.net/~turl/+archive/ppa
Saves having to download the other package and do the messy moving around of files. Have just tested it on mine and I'm not getting the bad signature error any longer!!
