Thread 'Unable to attach to Universe@home'

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Keith Myers Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 17 Nov 16 Posts: 906	Message 98836 - Posted: 26 May 2020, 20:54:55 UTC Since I haven't been able to get any response from my post at U@h, I thought I would try here. Need some help from Linux users. I tried to attach the project from the Manager and got an authentication error. Unsuccessful. Then tried to attach the project from the command line. Unsuccessful. About all I've managed to accomplish is the creation of the account_universeathome.pl_universe.xml file. Get status or get project_urls is still only showing the Einstein project as attached projects. The command line has offered no other status, errors or other informational messages about why I can't get the project attached. No download of the master file or anything gets attempted. I see that there is support for aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu platform in the all_projects_list.xml file for the project so assume there is an application for aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu. I have a Nvidia Jetson Nano host which works on that platform for Einstein and used to be attached to SETI. Can someone provide some hints or instructions on how to attach my Nano host to the project. TIA. ID: 98836 ·

Jim1348 Send message Joined: 8 Nov 10 Posts: 310	Message 98839 - Posted: 26 May 2020, 23:11:59 UTC - in response to Message 98836. I know nothing about the command lines, but I control10 Ubuntu 18.04.4 machines over the LAN with a Windows 7 64-bit machine running Boinc Tasks. I have often attached to Universe. You just install Boinc Tasks on your Windows machine: https://efmer.com/download-boinctasks/ Then, there are simple instructions for what to do on the Linux machine: https://efmer.com/boinctasks-connect-to-linux-machine/ Then, in the Projects tab of Boinc Tasks, you just select "Add a project", and you are off. ID: 98839 ·

Keith Myers Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 17 Nov 16 Posts: 906	Message 98843 - Posted: 27 May 2020, 5:27:50 UTC Last modified: 27 May 2020, 5:43:29 UTC Thanks for the reply Jim. No difference from trying to join from the Manager. No connection can be established. This is an authentication issue. But without any hints as to why, I am left floundering. If I could get something to show in the logs would be helpful, but even setting http_debug is showing nothing. [Edit] Finally got the logs to come through with http_debug. Still don't see any reason why it won't join the project. Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:43 PM PDT \| \| Fetching configuration file from https://universeathome.pl/universe/get_project_config.php Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:43 PM PDT \| \| [http] HTTP_OP::init_get(): https://universeathome.pl/universe/get_project_config.php Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:43 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: Connection 1125 seems to be dead! Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:43 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: Closing connection 1125 Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:43 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: Connection 1126 seems to be dead! Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:43 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: Closing connection 1126 Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:44 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: Trying 148.81.25.80... Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:44 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TCP_NODELAY set Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:44 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: Connected to universeathome.pl (148.81.25.80) port 443 (#1127) Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:44 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: ALPN, offering http/1.1 Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:44 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: successfully set certificate verify locations: Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:44 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: CAfile: ca-bundle.crt Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:44 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: CApath: /etc/ssl/certs Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:44 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1): Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2): Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11): Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12): Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14): Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16): Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Client hello (1): Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20): Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20): Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: ALPN, server accepted to use http/1.1 Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: Server certificate: Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: subject: CN=syntheticuniverse.org Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: start date: Apr 9 17:28:53 2020 GMT Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: expire date: Jul 8 17:28:53 2020 GMT Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: subjectAltName: host "universeathome.pl" matched cert's "universeathome.pl" Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3 Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: SSL certificate verify ok. Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Sent header to server: GET /universe/get_project_config.php HTTP/1.1 Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Sent header to server: Host: universeathome.pl Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu 7.9.3) Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Sent header to server: Accept: / Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Sent header to server: Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Sent header to server: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Sent header to server: Accept-Language: en_US Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Sent header to server: Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 05:29:45 GMT Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: Server: Apache/2.4.25 (Debian) mod_fcgid/2.3.9 PHP/5.6.40-0+deb8u4 OpenSSL/1.0.2t Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.40-0+deb8u4 Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: Vary: Accept-Encoding Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: Content-Encoding: gzip Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: Content-Length: 476 Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8 Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| Tue 26 May 2020 10:29:45 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: Connection #1127 to host universeathome.pl left intact Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:28 PM PDT \| \| [http] HTTP_OP::init_get(): https://universeathome.pl/universe/lookup_account.php?email_addr=keith%2Emyers%40att%2Enet&passwd_hash=a0738611c0541b67e64e36276bfb0657 Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:28 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: Connection 1127 seems to be dead! Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:28 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: Closing connection 1127 Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:28 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS alert, Client hello (1): Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:28 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: Hostname universeathome.pl was found in DNS cache Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:28 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: Trying 148.81.25.80... Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:28 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TCP_NODELAY set Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: Connected to universeathome.pl (148.81.25.80) port 443 (#1128) Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: ALPN, offering http/1.1 Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: successfully set certificate verify locations: Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: CAfile: ca-bundle.crt Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: CApath: /etc/ssl/certs Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1): Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2): Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11): Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12): Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14): Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16): Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Client hello (1): Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20): Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20): Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: ALPN, server accepted to use http/1.1 Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: Server certificate: Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: subject: CN=syntheticuniverse.org Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: start date: Apr 9 17:28:53 2020 GMT Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: expire date: Jul 8 17:28:53 2020 GMT Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: subjectAltName: host "universeathome.pl" matched cert's "universeathome.pl" Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3 Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: SSL certificate verify ok. Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Sent header to server: GET /universe/lookup_account.php?email_addr=keith%2Emyers%40att%2Enet&passwd_hash=[redacted] HTTP/1.1 Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Sent header to server: Host: universeathome.pl Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu 7.9.3) Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Sent header to server: Accept: / Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Sent header to server: Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Sent header to server: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Sent header to server: Accept-Language: en_US Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:29 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Sent header to server: Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:30 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:30 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 05:30:29 GMT Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:30 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: Server: Apache/2.4.25 (Debian) mod_fcgid/2.3.9 PHP/5.6.40-0+deb8u4 OpenSSL/1.0.2t Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:30 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.40-0+deb8u4 Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:30 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: Vary: Accept-Encoding Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:30 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: Content-Encoding: gzip Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:30 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: Content-Length: 133 Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:30 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8 Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:30 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Received header from server: Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:30 PM PDT \| \| Tue 26 May 2020 10:30:30 PM PDT \| \| [http] [ID#1575] Info: Connection #1128 to host universeathome.pl left intact All I ever get is an "unable to connect error - Try again later" message and then end the join session with the Finish button. But from the log, I am making a connection. I pass the certifications for SSL ID: 98843 ·

Keith Myers Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 17 Nov 16 Posts: 906	Message 98844 - Posted: 27 May 2020, 5:48:35 UTC Tried one more time with BoincTasks. Everything looks and says it was successful. Project added successfully (Nano) But the computer never shows up on my account. ID: 98844 ·

Jim1348 Send message Joined: 8 Nov 10 Posts: 310	Message 98847 - Posted: 27 May 2020, 12:30:57 UTC - in response to Message 98844. Last modified: 27 May 2020, 13:06:38 UTC At least it is an interesting problem. Not the usual run of the mill stuff. It must be some protocol missing in Nano that can't send the right GUI stuff. But after that, there is not much anyone (especially me) can do. Good luck. EDIT: Your computer does not show up in your Universe account? That is different. Even worse. I thought you meant it did not show up locally in Boinc Tasks. ID: 98847 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15632	Message 98854 - Posted: 27 May 2020, 14:14:36 UTC - in response to Message 98844. I see this one: https://universeathome.pl/universe/show_host_detail.php?hostid=563293 Isn't that it? Otherwise there's this: https://universeathome.pl/universe/show_host_detail.php?hostid=563296 Both created the 27th of May. But seeing how the Nano has a 32bit CPU, I'd suspect it's the first one with the ARMv7 CPU. ID: 98854 ·

Keith Myers Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 17 Nov 16 Posts: 906	Message 98863 - Posted: 27 May 2020, 20:33:31 UTC Well, it all got into a big mess somehow last night. I was starting a boincmgr from /home somehow that wasn't connecting to any client. Every time I booted the Nano, it was stuck on Add a project and the basic starting files. I kept deleting all those local files and trying to start from normal /var/lib/boinc-client directory but I could never get the client to start and the Manager would not start it either. But starting both from the command line worked. I finally just moved everything out of boinc-client to /home/BOINC since that was the only location that would start the Manager. Somewhere along the way on one of the Add project interruptions, I got a successful connection to the project and the host was attached. Then got both the client and Manager to autostart from the /home location so I could finally go to bed. Moot point though. I found a post from myself to someone inquiring on how to get an ARM64 device to get work from the project. My own response said there are no applications for any active projects. The only applications that were available for ARM64 are for the deprecated Neutron Star and Black Hole formation project. And the ARM application for BHspinv2 is only for armv6l like a Raspberry Pi 3 or lower. The Nano is a armv8 device. I did get my RPi3B+ running the BHspin tasks though. So a pointless and wasteful exercise overall. Thanks everyone for the assistance. ID: 98863 ·

MarkJ Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 5 Mar 08 Posts: 272	Message 98864 - Posted: 27 May 2020, 21:00:53 UTC - in response to Message 98863. Last modified: 27 May 2020, 21:02:36 UTC Moot point though. I found a post from myself to someone inquiring on how to get an ARM64 device to get work from the project. My own response said there are no applications for any active projects. The only applications that were available for ARM64 are for the deprecated Neutron Star and Black Hole formation project. Rosetta have an ARM64 app if you want to use it over there. MarkJ ID: 98864 ·

Keith Myers Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 17 Nov 16 Posts: 906	Message 98865 - Posted: 27 May 2020, 22:30:16 UTC - in response to Message 98864. Thanks I guess I'll take a look at that project again. Don't know how it will work with the limited RAM on the SBC though. I have just been running the Einstein BRP4 application on the gpu for now since Seti ended. I thought I should at least try and use some of the cpu cores since only one is needed for the gpu. ID: 98865 ·

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