Seti is down again

[msattler]

The Seti forums are simply stuffed right now.
Drop dead stuffed.

[msattler]

Uhh......
It's dead, Captain.

[msattler]

Been up and down for the last few hours.
Cricket is OK.
Another serious bot attack, or a real DNS attack?
Dunno, but things are not good.

[Ex]

I come home from work in the middle of the night and find seti@home is down. Curious if it ever came back online today after their planned outage or if it's been down all day and night? Or did I miss another memo about a longer planned outage, as I've been very busy?

-Dave

[EDIT]
From BOINC forums (and from seti page apparently):

This message was posted on the home page of the SETI@home project :

    Database Issues
    The BOINC mysql database is currently unresponsive. The project will be offline for the next 12 hours or so. 25 Jul 2012 | 2:08:54 UTC

This stuff with the outages, ALWAYS happens while I'm in the middle of testing/debugging/changing Boinc versions and setups on my machines....
_{I just changed some stuff on my server, and an OS update changed some things about the way I (used to) run BOINC. So in the process of getting it figured out the SETI site goes offline for its maintenance so I cannot verify my work is good, nor can I add the Seti project to the other machine I've had to make changes to. Same thing now when I get home tonight and wanted to finish my changes and be done with the other box. :-(
And all this while working 65-70 hours this week and last.
Perhaps tomorrow at 4am or so I'll get things finished.}

[msattler]

If you check the Cricket graphs, it looks like they came back up for a couple of hours, started to falter, and then shut down.

[Fredericx51]

If you check the Cricket graphs, it looks like they came back up for a couple of hours, started to falter, and then shut down.

Database Issues
The BOINC mysql database is currently unresponsive. The project will be offline for the next 12 hours or so. 25 Jul 2012 | 2:08:54 UTC
From SETI@home Main Page.

[skildude]

The graph is showing activity again for at least the last few hours.  I wonder if they are getting work processing parts up and running before getting the other stuff up

[arkayn]

Carolyn is running again, must be getting close to turning on the the rest.

[Richard Haselgrove]

Carolyn is running again, must be getting close to turning on the the rest.

Yes, to tie off the loose end (even at risk of invoking Murphy), all functions are active again - though downloads are, as usual, a little reluctant to leave the nest.

Ah - edit - except Beta.

[Josef W. Segur]

The Scheduler, Uploads and Downloads are working at Beta. Seems to be just the web-based stuff missing.
                                 Joe

[arkayn]

Looks like Carolyn locked up again, site is not loading except for a yellow box.

[Urs Echternacht]

The Scheduler, Uploads and Downloads are working at Beta. Seems to be just the web-based stuff missing.
                                 Joe

Do 26 Jul 2012 23:56:56 CEST   SETI@home Beta Test   update requested by user
Do 26 Jul 2012 23:56:56 CEST   SETI@home Beta Test   Fetching scheduler list
Do 26 Jul 2012 23:57:03 CEST   SETI@home Beta Test   [error] No scheduler URLs found in master file
no.

[Claggy]

The Scheduler, Uploads and Downloads are working at Beta. Seems to be just the web-based stuff missing.
                                 Joe

Do 26 Jul 2012 23:56:56 CEST   SETI@home Beta Test   update requested by user
Do 26 Jul 2012 23:56:56 CEST   SETI@home Beta Test   Fetching scheduler list
Do 26 Jul 2012 23:57:03 CEST   SETI@home Beta Test   [error] No scheduler URLs found in master file
no.

The scheduler url isn't embeded in the Seti Beta 'Project down for maintenance page', you'll need to edit your client_state.xml to get Boinc to contact Beta (while it's in the semi down for maintenance state),
If you set the following for the Beta project, you should be able to connect again:

    <nrpc_failures>0</nrpc_failures>
    <master_fetch_failures>0</master_fetch_failures>

    <scheduler_url>http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta_cgi/cgi</scheduler_url>

Edit: never mind, Seti Beta is now fully up from maintenance.

Claggy

[arkayn]

Due to a planned day long power outage, which starts early on Wednesday, all servers will be down from the beginning of Tuesday's normal outage until early on Thursday.

[Cosmic_Ocean]

Good to know.  I'll just disable network communications on both machines until Thursday.

Exceptions prove the rule ... and wreck the budget.

- Murphy's Law