5.6.5 - venue issue on clean install

[Ageless]

Comments: Posted by: boinc Date: 4:46 AM 10-06-2006 Upon installation of a fresh install, using BAM for preferences setting and not using the standard global, work, home or school for venue descriptions Boinc (or the updating of the projects) chose to use the last offical venue per updating via a project ie School. The only logic I can think of here is that even though the venue description didn't match "school" (it was "home-irvine2"), it didn't do a bitwise check of the <venue_host> description when trying to assign the venue for a completely brand new PC installation (only arrived yesterday).

I would have thought that the logic would be to assign the venue to "---" since it wasn't a correct match. As you can see even though it did set the venue to school (which had some old preferences entered but no computers ever attached to) once again the API and or Client thinks to just chose general preferences.

Please note that it looks like it's trying to debug the preference settings anyway but comes back with unexpected text with numbers that sort of match my general_prefs.xml file - although not in the order of the file.

2006-10-05 22:24:32 [---] Contacting account manager at http://bam.boincstats.com/
2006-10-05 22:24:35 [---] Account manager: BAM Host-ID: 10821
2006-10-05 22:24:35 [---] Account manager contact succeeded
2006-10-05 22:24:35 [---] Attaching to http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
2006-10-05 22:24:35 [---] Attaching to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
2006-10-05 22:24:36 [---] Attaching to http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
2006-10-05 22:24:36 [---] Attaching to http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/
2006-10-05 22:24:38 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Master file download succeeded
2006-10-05 22:24:38 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending scheduler request: Project initialization
2006-10-05 22:24:38 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 1 seconds of new work
2006-10-05 22:24:44 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 505]
2006-10-05 22:24:44 [SETI@home] New host venue: school <<<***
unexpected text: 7
unexpected text: 3
unexpected text: 0.6600000
unexpected text: 32
unexpected text: 60
unexpected text: 100.0
unexpected text: 50
unexpected text: 1.5
unexpected text: 75
unexpected text: 5000
unexpected text: 5000
unexpected text: 0
unexpected text: 0
unexpected text: 0
unexpected text: 0
unexpected text: 30
unexpected text: 3
unexpected text: 0.6600000
unexpected text: 4
unexpected text: 60
unexpected text: 100.0
unexpected text: 50
unexpected text: 1.5
unexpected text: 75
unexpected text: 4000
unexpected text: 3000
unexpected text: 0
unexpected text: 0
unexpected text: 0
unexpected text: 0
unexpected text: 30
unexpected text: 3
unexpected text: 0.6600000
unexpected text: 4
unexpected text: 60
unexpected text: 100.0
unexpected text: 50
unexpected text: 1.5
unexpected text: 75
unexpected text: 4000
unexpected text: 3000
unexpected text: 0
unexpected text: 0
unexpected text: 0
unexpected text: 0
unexpected text: 7
unexpected text: 3
unexpected text: 0.6600000
unexpected text: 64
unexpected text: 60
unexpected text: 100.0
unexpected text: 50
unexpected text: 1.5
unexpected text: 75
unexpected text: 3000
unexpected text: 3000
unexpected text: 0
unexpected text: 0
unexpected text: 0
unexpected text: 0
2006-10-05 22:24:44 [---] General prefs: from http://bam.boincstats.com/ (last modified 2006-10-05 22:12:55)
2006-10-05 22:24:44 [---] General prefs: using your defaults

where *=Should do a "General prefs: using preferences for school" next line but doesn't. This is the reason I've been asking for a <venue_debug> option.

[romw]

I believe this is fixed in the latest builds.