I've had a Rosetta@home task that was supposedly completed on 08 Feb 2011. It's been marked "uploading" ever since, but its upload always generates the message:

"Error reported by file upload server: EOF on socket read : asked for 16382, got 0"

Many other Rosetta (and other projects') tasks have come and gone successfully since, so it's clearly a problem with this task. I tried suspending it, then resuming it; no change. I tried to abort it; the log reports it was aborted, but its status remains "uploading" and it doesn't go away.

In /var/lib/boinc-client/projects/boinc.bakerlab.org_rosetta, I found a file matching the task name, whose size is 0 bytes. Given the read error above, that makes perfect sense.

My question is: how do I get rid of this failed task? I'm leery of deleting sections of XML files unless I know everything I must remove or change to avoid messing up anything else. I'd hope there'd be some kind of cleanup command (or BOINC Manager menu-entry) that would eliminate damaged task files. Can anyone advise me?

Thank you for your assistance.

Wasn't that around the time of the file server crash? When everyone was having trouble reaching the upload server?? Something must have gone awry at that time.

The safest way I can think of to clean up such a thing would be to mark the project for no new work, work through all the other tasks you have and get them reported back to the project so they are no longer in your task list, then detach from Rosetta (which should delete all related files), then attach again and you should have a fresh start. You could leave other projects running if you are attached to more then just Rosetta. They will not be impacted by the above.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

Thanks, Mod.Sense! Waiting for my Rosetta@home tasks to finish, then detaching & reattaching, did the trick.

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