BOINC produces about 70% of INVALID results

[Volodya]

I have gotten myself a new machine (Asus N76V) and now quite a few SETI bundles get "completed" about 10 times faster than the reported time (reported time is from 40 to 90 minutes and the real time spent is from 5 to 8 usually... but sometimes as little as 30 seconds).

When i check my results at SETI project i see that i now have a huge number of invalid results.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: boinc 7.2.7+dfsg-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-14.21-generic 3.11.7
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-14-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jan 6 11:05:37 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-22 (14 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: boinc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

did you install boinc-app-seti package or are you just running boinc with official seti client?

[Volodya (volodya)]

Version 7.00~svn1933-1 of boinc-app-seti is installed.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

can you please remove it and try with the official client?

[Volodya (volodya)]

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On 06/01/2014 13:08, LocutusOfBorg wrote:
> can you please remove it and try with the official client?
>

Done.

I will report if that helped in a few days, to make sure that some time has
passed... unless of course the problems will resume sooner.

              - Volodya

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[Volodya (volodya)]

Same thing is happening. Just now 3 hour long job has completed in 2 minutes, it just jumped to 100%. And a 7 hour job is "complete" in 6 minutes 27 seconds.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

thanks! So this seems to be an upstream problem, can you please report on the official website and link the report here?

[Volodya (volodya)]

Reported on BOINC alpha

http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/private/boinc_alpha/2014-January/019225.html

[Volodya (volodya)]

I was advised that i should report it to SETI instead, written to the forum:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=73759

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Did anything come of this? I see you have changed projects but nobody else has reported anything of this sort which suggests it must be specific to your system.

[Volodya (volodya)]

I've stopped doing SETI@home for a while, but now have restarted and the problem has disappeared. I'm currently on Ubuntu 14.10 running native version of BOINC. But i'm planning to downgrade to XUbuntu 14.04 LTS in a little bit, i'll tell you what happens then.

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