Posts by RickH

1) Message boards : RALPH@home bug list : Bug reports for 5.49-5.51 (Message 2855) Posted 10 Mar 2007 by RickH Post: Oh, I see. What a pain. My firewall doesn't support app name wildcards, and there's no way to proactively say "any app that wants to connect to x.y.z.t is allowed, even if you've never heard of it before." The app approval seems to be implemented as a separate layer; first the app is checked to see if it's allowed to use the internet at all, then if so, the packets are run through the packet-level rules as they go out. It looks like I'm stuck with losing many hours of CPU time the first time any new version of the science app aborts, along with it stuffing the error log and approval list full of spam. Argh.
2) Message boards : RALPH@home bug list : Bug reports for 5.49-5.51 (Message 2853) Posted 10 Mar 2007 by RickH Post: Figures. I just approved the internet access, and it immediately crashes with the 0xC0000005 fault that's going around. Oh, well. 454295
3) Message boards : RALPH@home bug list : Bug reports for 5.49-5.51 (Message 2852) Posted 10 Mar 2007 by RickH Post: Just noticed WU ID 400842, DOC_1DFJ_R070309_pose_b_pert_fixbb_score12_1832_6 has been stuck doing no work for over an hour, while the RALPH science app repeatedly tries to directly connect to 207.46.212.122:80 for some reason. I don't know why a science app would be directly using the internet connection instead of letting BOINC handle the file transfers like usual, but it's not a good idea. My software firewall (Comodo) is set to require individual app-by-app approval for internet access (to prevent trojans from phoning home), and since rosetta_beta_5.50_windows_intelx86.exe is not on the approved list, it keeps denying the program's access and the app is apparently stuck spinning its wheels. Currently at 20+ access errors logged and counting, repeated every 4 minutes or so. I could of course approve the app for internet access, but that won't work long term, since soon enough it'll be upgraded to rosetta_beta_5.51... and the game will start all over again. Even if I wanted to do this, each app upgrade will result in hours of wasted CPU time waiting for me to notice each new version's approval request popups, along with filling up the firewall's access list with dozens of sequential app names. Blech. I guess I'll have to approve this one, since it's either that or abort it, but 5.51 needs to either not require direct internet access, or at least fail gracefully if it's denied.
4) Message boards : RALPH@home bug list : Host venues corrupted? (Message 2023) Posted 12 Aug 2006 by RickH Post: All better now. Thanks!
5) Message boards : RALPH@home bug list : Host venues corrupted? (Message 1976) Posted 11 Aug 2006 by RickH Post: I just joined yesterday, and I'm seeing these same symptoms. Worse, I think the bogus venue ("490040"?) is keeping me from being able to adjust my project settings. I've tried explicitly setting my host's venue to "home", and though it looks OK on the website, I don't see the change on my PC. And when I try to change the project's resource ratio, the change again shows on the website but never propagates to my BOINC client, which still shows 100. I've also set the Rosetta target time to 2 hours, but my WUs continue to finish in less than 1 hour. When I first attached I was getting the "internal server error" mentioned in the other thread. I reset the project and got past that, but then got the "New host venue: 490040" and consequent frozen settings. Don't know if the two are related.