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Message 3055 - Posted: 18 Nov 2016, 11:08:58 UTC

At the moment the VM is very unstable due a corrupt file system (4 crashes last time) which is needed to repair. Also I want to upgrade Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 then 16.10. To to this I must backup the VM to start some testing. At this time no new registrations were available. I will wait until all WUs are back. More infos are coming soon until the current run is finished.

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Message 3069 - Posted: 24 Nov 2016, 10:49:05 UTC
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Hello,

Are there still problems with the system? I'm not receiving any new tasks for at least a couple of days now...

If we're waiting for a couple of users to finish, it's a bit of a waste of resources for the rest of us...

Thanks!

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Message 3070 - Posted: 24 Nov 2016, 12:04:44 UTC - in response to Message 3069.

Hello,

Are there still problems with the system? I'm not receiving any new tasks for at least a couple of days now...

If we're waiting for a couple of users to finish, it's a bit of a waste of resources for the rest of us...

Thanks!


Iam still waiting for the rest of the WUs, maybe I will process the rest on weekend. There could be some tests / repairing on weekend so no new work will be sent out.

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Message 3072 - Posted: 25 Nov 2016, 20:54:32 UTC

As expected not all WUs are back. If you still have a WU let it running. Tomorrow I will start the following:

- VM backup
- trying to repair the filesystem
- upgrade to the latest ubuntu version if possible (if not let the old system there)
- replace validators due some changes on the BOINC source code
- do some tests in the BOINC environment

In this time no new registrations and uploads/downloads are possible. I cant tell you how long does it take. A big thanks to all for a lot of new host registrations in the last days. I will try to send out new work as soon as possible.

If you have any challenges planned let me know. I need some time to prepare some things.

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Message 3074 - Posted: 26 Nov 2016, 14:01:08 UTC
Last modified: 26 Nov 2016, 14:25:48 UTC

The filesystem looks good so far, another problem was also fixed in the OS, sadly I have tried several times to upgrade to ubuntu 14.04 but due a kernel bug I couldnt start the OS again. I dont want to build a hole new VM with the latest OS so I must live with that.

Next step is to build new validators now.

Update:

New validators are now online. Lets see how its working.


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