This might or might not be a problem at all, not quit sure.

At least 6 or 7 times a day, in the \'messages\' portion of BOINC, the model states that it restarts w/a \'message timeout\' error. Pretty sure it shouldn\'t have to restart that many times per day and I also don\'t see anything uploading to the server for at least a month. The model itself has about 40% completed however...

If anyone\'s had this issue, please let me know.

Thanks

Is anything else happening on the PC when that happens, for example, something using 100% of CPU time for a while?

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It seems to pretty much happen when the PC\'s idle. No screensaver or power saving mode is ever applied. Just a run-of-the-mill Dell PC, no overclocking or anything done. I set it up on another Dell almost identical, and there\'s very few restarts, plus it at least uploads a trickle a few times a month. This current PC hasn\'t uploaded since Jul. 1st.

Please copy 20 lines or so from the Messages tab, and paste them here.
Start from well before a timeout message, and continue until well after, so that we can get an idea of what is happening.

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One additional question ... which firewall do you use? I noticed a few days ago that someone was getting the same messages in their log, and they said there was a problem with the firewall at the time.

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Here\'s what little content I currently have in the mess. folder. I\'ve restarted it recently and apparently that resets the log.

Also, I\'ve gotten rid of all software firewalls, the only thing I use is a common linksys WRT54G broadband router. Can\'t see it causing a model restart...is it an internal computation restart or something to do w/the network connection? I\"ll try to post more logs a week or so down the road.

Thanks for the responses.
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7/20/2007 7:35:55 PM||Starting BOINC client version 5.8.15 for windows_intelx86
7/20/2007 7:35:55 PM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
7/20/2007 7:35:55 PM||Libraries: libcurl/7.16.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8a zlib/1.2.3
7/20/2007 7:35:55 PM||Data directory: C:\\Program Files\\BOINC
7/20/2007 7:35:55 PM||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4] [fpu tsc sse sse2 mmx]
7/20/2007 7:35:55 PM||Memory: 1.50 GB physical, 5.26 GB virtual
7/20/2007 7:35:55 PM||Disk: 232.88 GB total, 162.85 GB free
7/20/2007 7:35:55 PM|climateprediction.net|URL: http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID: 573373; location: home; project prefs: default
7/20/2007 7:35:55 PM||General prefs: from climateprediction.net (last modified 2007-03-20 06:00:41)
7/20/2007 7:35:55 PM||Host location: home
7/20/2007 7:35:55 PM||General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
7/20/2007 7:35:55 PM||Reading preferences override file
7/20/2007 7:35:56 PM|climateprediction.net|Restarting task hadcm3ohe_27qb_05751669_0 using hadcm3 version 515
7/21/2007 7:45:20 AM||Restarting hadcm3ohe_27qb_05751669_0 - message timeout
7/21/2007 8:03:17 AM||Restarting hadcm3ohe_27qb_05751669_0 - message timeout
7/21/2007 8:03:17 AM|climateprediction.net|Restarting task hadcm3ohe_27qb_05751669_0 using hadcm3 version 515
7/22/2007 6:44:55 AM||Restarting hadcm3ohe_27qb_05751669_0 - message timeout
7/22/2007 6:48:07 AM||Restarting hadcm3ohe_27qb_05751669_0 - message timeout

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OK, that\'s enough to go on. At least for someone who has seen it before, which isn\'t me.

For future reference, all of the logs are archived in the BOINC folder:
stdoutdae.txt contains ALL of the messages, and
stderrdae.txt contains only the error messages.

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BUFFIN: Read Failed: Permission denied
BUFFIN: C I/O Error - Return code = 32

Model crashed: umshell1.f: STWORK : I/O error - PP fixed length header GA
Fatal crash! :-(

Must confess I don\'t know what this means but it makes me wonder what you may have done with the machine, and/or to the boinc/CPDN folder, prior to this incident.

This isn\'t likely to be helpful, but it seems to relate to the \'permissions\' thing:
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200501/msg00006.html

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BUFFIN: Read Failed: Permission denied
BUFFIN: C I/O Error - Return code = 32

Model crashed: umshell1.f: STWORK : I/O error - PP fixed length header GA
Fatal crash! :-(

Must confess I don\'t know what this means but it makes me wonder what you may have done with the machine, and/or to the boinc/CPDN folder, prior to this incident.

Have a look in the directory C:\\Program Files\\BOINC\\projects\\climateprediction.net\\hadcm3ohe_27qb_05751669_0\\dataout.

Does it have any zero length files or more than one *.pd* file? That would point towards a known (but very rare) problem that affected 5.15 (caused by shutting down BOINC in the small window between end of year post-processing and the next checkpoint).

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