Edit: The LHC corruption "View Computers" problem has been solved, no need to read further.
Also, BOINC 5.2.2 is working fine now on both my machines; but it truly is not a major upgrade to functionality.
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After (at last) upgrading its servers to support BOINC 5.x, LHC@home has been having trouble with one of them corrupting the info you see under
View Computers. (The link at left is a php script that will take you direct to
your page if you are cookied, or a log-in page if not.) If affected, your computer's CPU and OS will be replaced with funny numbers & several items in the details page will be wrong. This happens under all versions, 4.x as well as 5.
The corruption only happens after a result has been uploaded/reported, and doesn't seem to cause any problem with the result being accepted or credit actually being granted.
You can clear the problem simply by
- Manually Updating LHC in BOINC Manager
- Refreshing your browser
But the corruption may recur the next time you upload a WU.
There is a long thread on the LHC@home message board with reports of this corruption, the conclusion of which from the project developer is
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Originally Posted by Chrulle
Ok, so it seems the problem can be found in the credit granting. So it is probably the validator that is doing something horrible.
I will take a look at it tomorrow at work.
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As I say, this doesn't seem to affect core functions, but it is probably best to wait to upgrade to BOINC v5 until it is sorted.
BTW, Version 5 is working fine on my CPDN only machine so far; some projects have more informative messages; though if you are controlling remotely with BoincView you have supply BV the first time with a new password that BOINC 5 thoughtfully generates for you.