Postponed: VM Hypervisor failed to enter an online state in a timely fashion.

Postponed: VM job unmanagable, restarting later.

. It feels a little bit like riding the proverbial dead horse!

It`s zombie dead horse , along with the zombie rosetta tasks ,

PPS:
Kudos to @gbayler for the issues & workarounds tracker.

PS:
The need for such absurd workarounds shows in which sorry state the whole Rosetta@home project has carried itself over the years. It's sad. The 'rosetta python projects' application is just disgusting and should go away. I only am running it myself because I know how to, and because Rosetta v4 work is only intermittently available.

xii5ku wrote:

the script requires a fairly recent version of 'boinccmd'. I don't know precisely how recent, but 7.16.17 works, 7.16.6 does not work. (The version of the boinc clients which are controlled by the script does not matter.)

PS, you can tell whether your boinccmd is recent enough for the script by looking at the output of the --get_tasks call (towards any client which has one ore more task in progress). If there is a line with "elapsed task time:" for each task, it will work.

I thought it would be a good idea to create a post listing the issues with the VirtualBox tasks, which can then be updated as/if they get fixed. This isn't a thread to list the details of the issues - just to link to the wider discussions elsewhere:

1. Sometimes tasks don't start. They sit there at 0% and with no time used, but say "Running" in BOINC Manager. This tends to happen in batches for me and happens on multiple machines. I don't think there is a thread discussing this. Restarting BOINC Manager fixes this.

2. Some tasks never end. The % keeps climbing but they have to be aborted. My record that I've noticed is 4-days of CPU time. The error on the Vbox screen is always the same, but might be misleading (Spectre error). Thread here:
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=14897

Couldn't copy file: fwrite() failed

Have I missed any major issues?

How did this come? Faulty RAM?

No, perfectly stable machine with RAM tested. Nothing else does this, must be a python fault. VB tasks from LHC work smoothly.

On my 2 PCs roughly 20% of the rosetta python tasks have to be aborted; if I wouldn't abort them, they would just exceed the deadline, so I don't have much alternative. Most of the aborted tasks can be completed and validated on other systems, regardless of the OS. Would be really interesting why they don't run on my systems.

It's very strange and nobody knows the answer, except perhaps the silent staff that aren't here! Some machines can't run them, some can half the time, some can most of the time, there must be a huge list of bugs in it.

Errors that result in systems being black listed from getting work

When do systems get blacklisted?
I'm using a self-written script to abort tasks that don't process, wondering whether this can get my systems blacklisted too.

I have 7 Windows systems. 1 works fine 99% of the time. 5 do no CPU time and I've cancelled loads. 1 looked like it was working, but produced errors when validating. Only that last one got blacklisted (after 100 failed tasks), and only blacklisted from python. I assume if it was my own account I could go and switch it back on, but through gridcoin I cannot, and the admin can't be bothered doing it for me.

1 looked like it was working, but produced errors when validating.

Errors that result in systems being black listed from getting work

Dec 30 14:57:40 i5-be-quiet boinc[2340611]: 30-Dec-2021 14:57:40 [Rosetta@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
Dec 30 14:57:40 i5-be-quiet boinc[2340611]: 30-Dec-2021 14:57:40 [Rosetta@home] Requesting new tasks for CPU
Dec 30 14:57:42 i5-be-quiet boinc[2340611]: 30-Dec-2021 14:57:42 [Rosetta@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Dec 30 14:57:42 i5-be-quiet boinc[2340611]: 30-Dec-2021 14:57:42 [Rosetta@home] No tasks sent
Dec 30 14:57:42 i5-be-quiet boinc[2340611]: 30-Dec-2021 14:57:42 [Rosetta@home] rosetta python projects needs 5292.79MB more disk space.  You currently have 13780.69 MB available and it needs 19073.49 MB.