Windows S5R4 App 6.07 available for Beta Test
30 Nov 2008 11:10:48 UTC
Topic 13724
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A new Windows App is available from our Beta Test Page.
This should fix the checkpointing bug introduced in the previous 6.06 Beta App. Apart from that fix it should have the same properties as that release.
Switching from 6.04 - 6.06 and the 6.07 SSE Power App should be painless with the included app_info.xml.
Please test and report.
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Windows S5R4 App 6.07 available for Beta Test
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The archive should be ok now. Sorry, was the common "whatever *" instead of "whatever*" typo.
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RE: Had an error on one of
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I don't think it had anything to do with the actual graphics. The relevant line of stderr is
2008-12-01 05:25:36.6964 [CRITICAL]: Checksum error: -2681955
i.e. a checksum error in the checkpoint. Looks like a filesystem problem that might have to do something with the game. I'd run a filesystem check on the disk ASAP just to be sure.
Another aspect that I currently consider as a (minor) bug is that the app returned with exit code -1. Actually it _should_ in this case exit with the return value of MAIN, which in this case would be 10.
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It was just brought to my
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It was just brought to my attention that the latest fix to the checkpointing problem won't work on systems prior to Win 2000 (i.e. 98/ME). Actually I haven't a clue what will happen there - any volunteers for testing?
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I'm discussing this with
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I'm discussing this with BOINC developer Rom Walton on boinc_dev mailing list, hopefully have a fix in the BOINC API (available to all projects then) in the next few days.
I don't think you'll lose much running the stock App 6.04 on those machines until then.
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RE: Unless someone else has
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Don't. It will probably happen to all of them. What doesn't work on 98/ME is the rename() function, regardless of being used for the checkpoint or the final output file.
Thanks for testing, I'd suggest you switch back to the default 6.04 on those boxes before wasting more time on a task.
If you don't want to lose how much you crunched so far, stop the BOINC Client, manually rename the .cpt.tmp file to .cpt, manually download the 6.04*_0 and 6.04*_1 files, rename them to 6.07*, make a copy of 6.07*_1 as 6.07_2, replace the 6.07 files in the project folder with the renamed 6.04 files (the graphics app is the same anyway). Then start the Client again.
I need some confirmation from the people that had problems with checkpoint renaming with the 6.05 App that their problem is solved now with 6.07. Once I could report this to BOINC, we'll fix this in the BOINC code and then I'll build a new App version from that.
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A new App 6.08 for Windows
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A new App 6.08 for Windows can be found on the Power User's Apps page.
This is mainly a bugfix release (candidate) for the rename() problem on Win98/ME etc. It is a "maximum compatibility" App not primarily designed for speed to make sure it runs on old systems running Win98.
Please try this on the Win98 systems that had problems with 6.07 and also make sure it works on newer systems, too (i.e. without "can't rename" warnings etc.). If this test is successful, I'll build a new full-featured App from that code.
Thanks for your help.
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Thanks for testing. The more
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Thanks for testing.
The more frequent progress update is a feature that we added in preparation for S5R5 where the time the App will look at one sky location will be much longer than in S5R4 (and before). Previously the progress counter was only updated with every checkpoint, which is not the case anymore.
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Hopefully publishing the new
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Hopefully publishing the new full-featured release candidate 6.09 with the 6.08 checkpointing code doesn't add to the confusion...
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