Error: Attempt #4 to get work failed

[oceaness]

I can't connect to Stanford to get new work

Something wrong their end or is there something I'm missing?

[11:54:33] - Ask before connecting: No
[11:54:33] - User name: oceaness (Team 10)
[11:54:33] - User ID: 475F96B55AE75EB0
[11:54:33] - Machine ID: 2
[11:54:33] 
[11:54:33] Loaded queue successfully.
[11:54:33] Deleting incompletely fetched item (4) from queue position #4
[11:54:33] - Warning: Could not delete all work unit files (4): Core file absent
[11:54:33] + Benchmarking ...
[11:54:37] The benchmark result is 4096
[11:54:37] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[11:54:37] + Attempting to get work packet
[11:54:37] - Will indicate memory of 1023 MB
[11:54:37] - Autosending finished units...
[11:54:37] Trying to send all finished work units
[11:54:37] - Connecting to assignment server
[11:54:37] Connecting to http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/


[11:54:37] + Attempting to send results
[11:54:37] - Reading file work/wuresults_03.dat from core
[11:54:37]   (Read 1121701 bytes from disk)
[11:54:37] Connecting to http://171.65.103.160:8080/
[11:54:38] Posted data.
[11:54:38] Initial: 0000; - Successful: assigned to (0.0.0.0).
[11:54:38] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[11:54:38] Work Unit has an invalid address.
[11:54:38] - Error: Attempt #1  to get work failed, and no other work to do.
             Waiting before retry.
[11:54:58] + Attempting to get work packet
[11:54:58] - Will indicate memory of 1023 MB
[11:54:58] - Connecting to assignment server
[11:54:58] Connecting to http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/
[11:55:01] Posted data.
[11:55:01] Initial: 0000; - Successful: assigned to (0.0.0.0).
[11:55:01] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[11:55:01] Work Unit has an invalid address.
[11:55:01] - Error: Attempt #2  to get work failed, and no other work to do.
             Waiting before retry.
[11:55:17] + Attempting to get work packet
[11:55:17] - Will indicate memory of 1023 MB
[11:55:17] - Connecting to assignment server
[11:55:17] Connecting to http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/
[11:55:19] Posted data.
[11:55:19] Initial: 0000; Posted data.
[11:55:19] Initial: 0000; - Successful: assigned to (0.0.0.0).
[11:55:19] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[11:55:19] Work Unit has an invalid address.
[11:55:19] - Error: Attempt #3  to get work failed, and no other work to do.
             Waiting before retry.
[11:55:20] - Uploaded at ~25 kB/s
[11:55:20] - Averaged speed for that direction ~19 kB/s
[11:55:20] + Results successfully sent
[11:55:20] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.
[11:55:20] + Number of Units Completed: 2

[11:55:20] + Sent 1 of 1 completed units to the server
[11:55:20] - Autosend completed
[11:55:44] + Attempting to get work packet
[11:55:44] - Will indicate memory of 1023 MB
[11:55:44] - Connecting to assignment server
[11:55:44] Connecting to http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/
[11:55:45] Posted data.
[11:55:45] Initial: 0000; - Successful: assigned to (0.0.0.0).
[11:55:45] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[11:55:45] Work Unit has an invalid address.
[11:55:45] - Error: Attempt #4  to get work failed, and no other work to do.
             Waiting before retry.

 

[2bullish]

Its normal, your logs show that your machine has been trying to get work for less than a minute, servers are sometimes busy, have a little patience old chap

 

[BillytheImpaler]

It would appear that the server is down. That's why you get
"[11:54:38] Initial: 0000; - Successful: assigned to (0.0.0.0)."

It'll probably be back up in a short time.

 

[Snapshot]

Some of my borgs have taken over 12 hours to get new work. I've currently got two that have been trying to get work since 08:00 this morning.

 

[oceaness]

It would appear that the server is down. That's why you get
"[11:54:38] Initial: 0000; - Successful: assigned to (0.0.0.0)."

It'll probably be back up in a short time.

It's all good now

Thanks for the replies guys.

 

[Snapshot]

I've got three of my borgs hanging around trying to get new work, one of them since 06:00 this morning, the others since 11:00. The one that finished at 06:00 also hasn't been able to send its completed WU despite me restarting the F@H service. Anyone else having the same problem? Standard Windows console clients BTW.

A little later - this looks like it might be a DNS error on the school server as ping can't find the assignment servers from there but can from home (and we're on the same ISP). I shall investigate further.....

 

[Snapshot]

Just to tidy up. I set the next DNS server up the chain as a forwarder and all three borgs were able to collect new WUs the next time they tried. One still can't send its completed WUs but I think that's probably down to a specific results server so I'll wait until this afternoon to see if it gets fixed.