There are a few download errors, about 5-6% for me with others also reporting some.

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Paul.

I have one computer that has currently downloaded 784 work units with around 100 of those being down load errors, so more than 5% for me.

Can't get input files

Conan

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my most recent download failure...
Task 345806

Stderr output
<core_client_version>8.2.5</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
WU download error: couldn't get input files:
<file_xfer_error>
<file_name>10_235023_observations.dat</file_name>
<error_code>-119 (md5 checksum failed for file)</error_code>
<error_message>MD5 check failed</error_message>
</file_xfer_error>
</message>
]]>

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At my machine's end it is about 15% of the tasks that fail during download.
Clearly something the project team should take a closer look at on the server side.

Michael.

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President of Rechenkraft.net - Germany's first and largest distributed computing organization. We run three DC projects on our own: RNA World, Yoyo@home and YAFU. A fourth is about to come...

Anyone from the project looking into this???
Still getting download errors.

<core_client_version>8.2.5</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
WU download error: couldn't get input files:
<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>10_806269_input.dat</file_name>
  <error_code>-119 (md5 checksum failed for file)</error_code>
  <error_message>MD5 check failed</error_message>
</file_xfer_error>
</message>
]]>

I have over 300 WUs with this download error.

6 Dec 2025, 16:44:26 UTC 6 Dec 2025, 16:45:47 UTC Erreur lors du téléchargement (download) 0.00 0.00 --- 10_Spacious@home v1.00
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Erreur (3502)

6.7% md5 checksum errors here.

Mine is now at 6.8% fails.

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Paul.

In reply to Paul's message of 8 Dec 2025:

Mine is now at 6.8% fails.

I too am at just over 6.0%

Me too

14 of my last 38 tasks in last 24 hours have downloaded error due to "input files missing."

I guess they didn't bother or look into to fixing this when they were messing around with "correcting" the outrageous credits.

Don't expect any response from the Admin. He is too busy appending the grant money he scammed out of the EU for this joke of a Project.

The spacious project : https://spacious.ub.edu/

The project spaciousathome is only a small part of projekt spacious. The consortium invited us to join the project to enable collaboration among non-scientists. Funding for the spaciousathome and gaiaathome projects only covers the construction and launch of the service. Spaciousathome is currently being built and tested. Spaciousathome and gaiaathome are operated by volunteers, just like yours. Therefore, we cannot expect excellent and immediate service.

The spaciousathome and gaiaathome services are twins because that was the consortium's requirement (Gaia mission data is a subset of the data processed by the spacious project)

Let's hope that there will still be people willing to maintain the project, despite the allegations made against them. Preparing programs and requests for calculations is time-consuming, and I have consciously limited their use on the discussion forum.

We will try to keep gaiaathome and spaciousathome running for as long as possible, but this also depends on the interest in the service from other scientists who are willing to use its resources.

Therefore, services may experience periods of downtime, but this doesn't mean the project is complete.

The BOINC point-accident is a surprise. We don't know the reasons for this platform behavior, and we had to learn how to fix it. Unfortunately, we're concerned that this may happen again because we don't know the source of the error in the system.

Tasks in progress 147, Downloads failed 1999

I suspect a problem with passing data to the BOINC structure. For testing, we ran all tasks with the same input data set to eliminate data errors...
We're currently investigating this. We probably need to delete the existing tasks and pause the system for a while.