Error message Exit Code 10, bytecount mismatch
10 Jul 2007 12:38:49 UTC
Topic 192954
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A teammember had the following question I wasn't able to answer.
His workunit has the following errorcorde: [debug]: ERROR: bytecount mismatch: returned: 54, bytes: 1047616, file: 1047398
See resultid: http://einsteinathome.org/task/85548635
Is there anything that can or will be done to grant this guy his credits?
Error message Exit Code 10, bytecount mismatch
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The solution to the problem was to:
# Uninstall BOINC
# Create a folder C:\\My Programs\\
# Move the entire BOINC folder and all its contents to C:\\My Programs\\
# Reinstall BOINC, making sure to tell BOINC to use the new folder
# Continue crunching as before (all previous jobs will be found)
Thanks for reporting this
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Thanks for reporting this (both the problem and the solution).
A "bytecount mismatch" indicates that something goes wrong when writing the temporary output file at a checkpoint. It means that the file on disk has a different length than the program thinks it should have from the number of bytes it has actually written.
Both the error and the solution indicate that apparently something went wrong with the filesystem, probably somewhere down the C:\\Program Files\\BOINC directory tree. Just for the records: Is this an NTFS or a FAT32 filesystem? I'd rather suspect the latter.
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