f@h problem

[Kaylya]

My client appears to be stuck at the "attempting to get work packet" stage. It is showing me as having two finished WU's (what it should be - I'm new, on a fairly slow PC that isn't on all the time as it's a laptop), and shows the current WU as 100% complete. The stats page shows me as having only 1 WU complete. Any idea what the problem is?

I scanned through the FAQ and did a search of the forums and didn't find anything.

Edit: It sorted itself out. How long should it be taking in that 'attempting to get work packet' stage? It was there for at least 15 minutes, and probably a lot longer. I'm on a fast connection.

 

[osage]

are you able to connect to the internet ? if so restart the machine and it should try to connect to the server, check the log file.

 

[ProviaFan]

If you run the FAH CLI (not sure if the GUI can take this option also or not), use the -verbosity 9 switch (along with any others you might use) to make it write the server IPs to FAHLog.txt. Then, to help diagnose what might be the problem with a stuck WU, you can look up the IP in the log and go to this page to see if that server is down.

 

[r0tt3n1]

I had a stuck wu yesterday too. As jliechty correctly states (he's so reliable 🙂), it appears it was just a temporary Stanford server glitch.
The F@H client will automatically try to get and send wu's. When trying to get one, it will attempt to connect at ever lenghtening times. First a few seconds between attempts, then minutes etc... til it gets a unit. The longest one of my machines has ever gone was over 6 hours before being able to get a new wu. At that point the F@H client was re-trying every half hour automatically.

 

[r0tt3n1]

Seems there is a possibility that some hackers may have something to do with the outages........