On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:36:10 GMT, "uray" <remove-uray@att.net> wrote:

I haven't had any in weeks.  I keep getting "Master file fetch failed".  I 
can't even get the website to come up.  Is it just me or is everybody having 
this problem? 

I have stopped even trying since about 10 days. I tried my first
BOINC-Install. some months ago, but had problems with it and "not
much time for these things" - so I continued with SETI classic
"until the last moment" which was in fact already on Dec.12 when
Classic stopped working normally. Then I de-installed SETI classic
and BOINC, then re-installed BOINC which "looks now a bit better"
(I tried this time to apply the config. tips for my system with WinXP
and several users defined.) But when BOINC seems to be ready
to get data from the internet (and even when it asks for them) I only
get following messages, where I am using the %% signs to mean
"this line appears in red":

(...)
15.12.2005 00:48:35|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request to

http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
15.12.2005 00:48:35|SETI@home|Reason: Requested by user
15.12.2005 00:48:35|SETI@home|Requesting 86400 seconds of new work
%% 15.12.2005 00:48:36||Couldn't resolve hostname
%%			  [setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu]
%% 15.12.2005 00:48:36|SETI@home|Scheduler request to
%% 			http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
%% 			  failed with a return value of -113
%% 15.12.2005 00:48:36|SETI@home|No schedulers responded
15.12.2005 00:48:39||Suspending computation and network activity
				- user is active
(... end of this messages quoting)

I don't understand why 'setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu' is not found ...

BTW, am I right guessing that the first thing that should be loaded
via the grid is the SETI software (in its most recent version for
BOINC) ? I think so because I found no more any place to download
this software in the usual manner and because what is written on some
BOINC project website(s) suggests that it happens this way.

Then I decided to wait until "they have more time to help", because
for various reasons many users will be switching to BOINC near
Dec.15  ...

(I also tried to activate the climate project, which failed already in
its the first step. So now I am first waiting for SETI - when it goes,
that thing will have its turn again.)

BTW it's not me or my PC that needs SETI and other grid projects,
so if 'they' want 'us' to run their projects (which in fact are really
interesting things) they should find time to help - or to publish for
all usual OSes and system config. a working 'way to start it'. If
this is not possible for so many users, I suggest that a small group
of (say a few thousand) users be first formed with which BOINC
could be thouroughly tested and brought to work.