Reply With QuoteAutoupdate worked perfectly here!
I hope autoupdate worked for everyone this time. If not post your horror storieshere.
This is now the last small protein before we ramp up to 10 billion sample size and larger proteins. The next update will likely include an update to the executable to make sure all the latest changes and bug fixes are incorporated into everyone's copy.
Happy Folding!
Howard Feldman
Autoupdate worked perfectly here!
Beautiful work Howard
My two installs of APR1 on win 2k, one as a service, the other running in client window updated without so much as a hiccup. Thanks for all your hard work!
Hi Howard,
I noticed that the web page didn't "autoupdate". Currently http://www.distributedfolding.org/ still has the disabled page showing while http://www.distributedfolding.com is back to normal again.
My client stopped and waited for me to update the client. To bad i wasn't at home so he didn't do anything for several hours
I don't edited the foldit.bat file so the client was 100% the same when you download it from the site.
Member of the Los Alcoholicos
Autoupdate worked perfectly on my Win98SE box.
Michael.
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Auto-update worked like a charm here :-)
So far it has failed for me, but I suspect my caching proxy server is to blame. I am trying to flush the stupid thing, but haven't found the right place yet.
Ni!
I did not see anything automatic about this update. First of all the update came while my machines are in the process of folding, which means it is now burning cycles for nothing. I get news of the new protein and stop the client, restart the client, it checks for new update and finds one and then ask me the question to update.Why ask the question? Unless i missed something in my setup that's far from automatic.
It's better to pay attention cause you can't afford free speech.
Everything worked great for me--
WinXP
Win2k
Win2k Advanced Server
Win98se
work - no, same happened last time but stopping and restarting the client forced the updatemaybe a firewall\proxy\cache issue somewhere on our network.
home - yes
Two win mill updated
Two win mill, three 98se, and one 2k waited for me to say Y then updated fine.
Came home from work half an hour ago, my six clients were all waiting for Y(es), and I had made the "yes-file". All were running with the -df switch......
Terje Larsen
I turned off ALL caching on the proxy server, rebooted the proxy server and still get the same error message when trying to run foldit.bat:
Downloading update, please wait...
Authenticity failed or download incomplete/corrupt. Get update from http://www.distributedfolding.org/
I'm at my parents and they have a really lousy connection (56k modem, but it runs max. like a 28.8 modem).
I connected, started the client and it updated perfectly (after waiting quite some time for it to finish the download).
Again I noticed that when I closed the client the first time after it has updated, it doesn't close the console?! It ends with a "Done." in the console and I have to close the console manually. Next time I start client and close it again, it closes the console properly.
Overall: Great work Howard!
Went to plan B: deleted all files in distributed folding directory. Installed a new download in all DF directories and restarted the NT service.
This is very time consuming onboth
Ni!
Just want to point out again, if you do NOT want it to ask you for confirmation about the download (ie. it says Do you wnat to Download? (y/n)) but you want it to automatically download, create a file called 'autoupdate.cfg' (be careful with spelling). Make it with notepad or PICO and it should contain a single line with the number '1' on it.
That's it.
Why do we do this? Why isn't this the default behaviour? As I have mentioned before, our stance on privacy is that nothing should be put on your machine without your explicit consent. By forcing you to either hit 'y' or to create the autoupdate.cfg file, you are in effect giving us your consent to put update files on your machine. I think it is unfortunate that people already take for granted how much junk is literally pushed onto our machines these days, doing something as simple as browsing the web.
And to MilleniumGuy: it is definitely your caching software. My squid proxy was the same, but after about 4-5 hrs. they did start updating themselves. I suggest you just wait and they'll get the message eventuallyLess work for you that way
Howard Feldman
Autoupdate is not working for me. I'm running DF as a service on 6 WinNT SP6 boxes, and have created the .cfg file for non-interactive updates. Still won't update without me stopping the service and then starting the console... otherwise it just keeps on folding the old protein. Kinda frustrating really.
I think it is great that you are making an effort to make this project secure and take care of people privacy - thanks!
fftopic:
Now, I've asked this before without getting an answer, so I try again
It would be *really nice* if it was possible to upload structures from the old protein for a certain amount of time (a few weeks or whatever is possible) after an update. Otherwise this client simply isn't very attractive for offline machines
Another issue I just thought of (and also off topic here, sorry): I have earlier experienced that the client only deleted the filelist.txt when it updated a client, leaving a lot of work units (WU's) behind (taking up space). It is somewhat connected to the issue before - it should upload those WU's before deleting the filelist.txt file. If that isn't possible, it should mark those files as old or something, making it easy for me to remove those files or maybe make it possible to configure the client to automatically delete old WU's.
Thanks for the info Brian the Fist, I new it was something I missed. I'll be using the autoupdate.cfg file for the next update.Why do we do this? Why isn't this the default behaviour? As I have mentioned before, our stance on privacy is that nothing should be put on your machine without your explicit consent. By forcing you to either hit 'y' or to create the autoupdate.cfg file, you are in effect giving us your consent to put update files on your machine. I think it is unfortunate that people already take for granted how much junk is literally pushed onto our machines these days, doing something as simple as browsing the web.
It's better to pay attention cause you can't afford free speech.
My one box running the CLI client with an autoupdate.cfg file did NOT autoupdate, but I think it may have been because the file was not properly named. I renamed it to autoupdate.cfg, but I think it might have kept the .txt extension for a net result of autoupdate.cfg.txt which I did not notice.
Just something to check for those of you who had autoupdate.cfg set up but still had to press "y".
/me hates making stupid errors.
Overall
Of two very nearly identical W98SE units, one updated and continued. The other was waiting till I got home and just moved the mouse! Did absolutely nothing else! It was sitting there with the "signature verified" msg on screen, but doing nothing! Then it "woke up", unpacked the update, and took off. The error log has just a time stamp of when I "woke it up", no error msg. ?????????
Probably not worth doing anything further to research. Just reporting to be thorough.
Paratima,
mine did the exact same thing. 3 of the 5 win98 boxes updated and went on their merry way. the other 2 updated as soon as the mouse moved.
all the Win2k boxes updated perfectly.
all in all 16 of 18 CPU's updated without any help from me.
pretty good but not perfect!!
-Jim
I did the same mistake as another user did.......had .txt at the end of autoupdate.cfg
AHA! With over 6K users, I KNEW it must have happened to someone else.Originally posted by JTrinkle
Paratima,
mine did the exact same thing. 3 of the 5 win98 boxes updated and went on their merry way. the other 2 updated as soon as the mouse moved.
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Maybe someone's trying to give us the message: Upgrade, you fools!
The windows clients updated ok for me (XP and W2k)
Both linux clients were waiting for the Y although autoupdate.cfg was there with the 1 in it. I was running with the -df switch so this might be the same problem ulv was talking about.
Both of my Macs and 1 of my Windows XP boxes updated fine. One XP box didn't, but that was because I mispelled the autoupdate file name.
Question. If in the autoupdate.cfg file you put a return after the 1, would that create a problem for some folks. I noticed when I created my files, that I tended to put in a return after the 1, and ended up going back and deleting it.
Other than my error, a flawless update.
David R
Team MacNN
Seamless here - all machines, various OS's.
Of my 1 XP and 2 98SE boxes running text client, 1 2k and 1 XP box running as a service all updated themselves without any help (except the one where i forgot autoupdate.cfg, which updated when i hit y). As for the 24-machine linux cluster... well i sat in the lab and wached the thermometer hit 1,002,000,000ish structures and snuck in an upload before the protein changed
restarting after that i managed to catch you updating the server, but once it was back up they all updated themselves without any issues
The good news... 4 - Win98 and 1 - W2K Server updated ok...
The bad(?) news... When I noticed the protein change over, I happened to check a slow (400 MHz) box and saw that it was only on 2,500 of 10,000 for the old protein. Being the impatient person that I am and not wanting to crunch through another 7500 worthless structures on a slow box, I pressed "Q" to stop the CLI; it tried to upload, and of course it wouldn't take the old structures which I expected. Then I restarted the CLI, it check for a newer version, downloaded it, and then started crunching the old protein again which I didn't expect.
I figured I fudged it up
2 XP machines updated text client just fine. I am curious though. Why does updating the screensaver require a reboot?
Worked perfectly!
Running it in Linux, with the autoupdate.cfg, with a return at the end of the line (but then again, Windows editors in my experience tend to do some strange things to files... like adding .txt to the end, and adding extra return characters... so that might be it for some people).
Actually, I wouldn't have even noticed anything different, without the e-mail saying there was an update. And the structure size getting bigger, of course. But it still crunches through them at about the same rate (which is odd, I think... any reason why this is? Is it something with the geometry of the structure?).
Overall, great job Howard!
my .EXE was dated March 23rd, and none of my 13 boxen updated. I got a big fat ZERO for 12 hours.
Worked perfectly. Running as a service on WinXP with March 26th version.
It failed again for me. As I stated before this is the last time I deal with this problem. I'm outa this project.
Laterz
guru
kudos on the hard work that you and your guys put into this client Howard. I had mixed results on the previous auto-updates, but this auto-update went flawlessly on its own while I was at the movies
Genome needs you bud!Originally posted by guru
It failed again for me. As I stated before this is the last time I deal with this problem. I'm outa this project.
Laterz
guru
IIRC, that stupid notepad editor automatically adds .txt to all files it editsOriginally posted by ddrogers
I did the same mistake as another user did.......had .txt at the end of autoupdate.cfg
Ironbits don't friggin recruit people away from DF just because you are an idiot.
If you had been paying attention during the last update or read any bug reports you would know that vMAR23 does not auto-update. Last update mine failed too because I had the mar23 version so I upgraded to apr1 and it worked perfectly this time. I am just surprised how well Howard has kept his composure when there are goofballs posting these kind of comments.
Comments such as these (personal attacks) are not welcome here... Clean it up please!!
-JTrinkle
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