Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 04:10:32 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: 'Edwin Groothuis' <edwin@mavetju.org> Subject: Re: SETIATHOME PORT Message-ID: <200406140410.32197.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <001501c451fc$1479edc0$7890a8c0@dyndns.org> References: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAv%2Bhg2asc3kOTt0Qm5pDcf8KAAAAQAAAAT4Mm8fPif0ywmx6sO7WyIgEAAAAA@fsegura.com> <001501c451fc$1479edc0$7890a8c0@dyndns.org>
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On Monday 14 June 2004 03:40 am, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > "Rob Craig" <rcraig@fsegura.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Had had loads of problems over the last few days. Looks like the > > problem is related to the work unit. Same symptoms as before. TOP > > reporting SETIATHOME at 96% but not doing anything. Killing the > > service and restarting does nothing. I deleted the work unit and it > > then grabs another and works?? > > > > Should I do edit my files as you say below? > > If you didn't edited them yet, this may help to see what's happen. > if you have some trace of what's happen, please, post them. > however, if this problem is really related to how setiathome works > inside, I'll not be able to do something, since we don't have access > to the sources. so, in this case, a bug report would have to be sent > using the "bug report form" at > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/help.html > > PS : the only thing I can do is to add a keyword to the startup > script to delete the current work unit and eventually another keyword > to check if the current work unit is still alive (well, I don't > really know how to do this, this I can't reproduce anything, do you > have any idea about that ?). > I have probably processed at least 5-10K wus with the current FreeBSD version of setiathome. The only time I have seen it do something like this is when the files are owned by a different user than the one running seti. It can run but not write to the state file. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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