Bug#672328: boinc-client: seti at home gives computation error on all work units

[Bert Riding]

Package: boinc-client
Version: 7.0.27+dfsg-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Both versions 7.0.24 and 7.0.27 of the boinc-client give an error 
similar to the following for every seti at home task:

Wed 09 May 2012 10:29:57 PM MDT | SETI at home | Output file 17ja11ac.29037.9654.6.10.115_2_0 for task 17ja11ac.29037.9654.6.10.115_2 absent

Version 7.15 works correctly, and successfully runs seti at home work units.

I have reset the project and purged and re-installed boinc-client, with 
no difference.

I will once again install 7.15 and  forbid the upgrade to the new 
version of boinc-client so that I can continue to contribute to seti at home.
  


-- Package-specific info:
-- Contents of /etc/default/boinc-client:
# This file is /etc/default/boinc-client, it is a configuration file for the
# /etc/init.d/boinc-client init script.

# Set this to 1 to enable and to 0 to disable the init script.
ENABLED="1"

# Set this to 1 to enable advanced scheduling of the BOINC core client and
# all its sub-processes (reduces the impact of BOINC on the system's
# performance).
SCHEDULE="1"

# The BOINC core client will be started with the permissions of this user.
BOINC_USER="boinc"

# This is the data directory of the BOINC core client.
BOINC_DIR="/var/lib/boinc-client"

# This is the location of the BOINC core client, that the init script uses.
# If you do not want to use the client program provided by the boinc-client
# package, you can specify here an alternative client program.
#BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/local/bin/boinc"
BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/bin/boinc"

# Here you can specify additional options to pass to the BOINC core client.
# Type 'boinc --help' or 'man boinc' for a full summary of allowed options.
#BOINC_OPTS="--allow_remote_gui_rpc"
BOINC_OPTS=""

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.3.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages boinc-client depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu1
ii  ca-certificates        20120212
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.43
ii  libc6                  2.13-32
ii  libcurl3               7.25.0-1
ii  libgcc1                1:4.7.0-7
ii  libssl1.0.0            1.0.1b-1
ii  libstdc++6             4.7.0-7
ii  libx11-6               2:1.4.99.901-2
ii  libxss1                1:1.2.2-1
ii  python                 2.7.2-10
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.7.dfsg-1

Versions of packages boinc-client recommends:
ii  ia32-libs  20120102

Versions of packages boinc-client suggests:
ii  boinc-app-seti     <none>
ii  boinc-manager      7.0.27+dfsg-2
ii  libcuda1           <none>
ii  libcuda1-ia32      <none>
ii  x11-xserver-utils  7.7~2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/boinc-client/global_prefs_override.xml changed:
<global_preferences>
   <run_on_batteries>0</run_on_batteries>
   <run_if_user_active>1</run_if_user_active>
   <run_gpu_if_user_active>0</run_gpu_if_user_active>
   <idle_time_to_run>3.000000</idle_time_to_run>
   <suspend_cpu_usage>0.000000</suspend_cpu_usage>
   <start_hour>0.000000</start_hour>
   <end_hour>0.000000</end_hour>
   <net_start_hour>0.000000</net_start_hour>
   <net_end_hour>0.000000</net_end_hour>
   <leave_apps_in_memory>0</leave_apps_in_memory>
   <confirm_before_connecting>0</confirm_before_connecting>
   <hangup_if_dialed>0</hangup_if_dialed>
   <dont_verify_images>0</dont_verify_images>
   <work_buf_min_days>0.000000</work_buf_min_days>
   <work_buf_additional_days>2.500000</work_buf_additional_days>
   <max_ncpus_pct>100.000000</max_ncpus_pct>
   <cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>60.000000</cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>
   <disk_interval>60.000000</disk_interval>
   <disk_max_used_gb>10.000000</disk_max_used_gb>
   <disk_max_used_pct>50.000000</disk_max_used_pct>
   <disk_min_free_gb>0.000000</disk_min_free_gb>
   <vm_max_used_pct>75.000000</vm_max_used_pct>
   <ram_max_used_busy_pct>50.000000</ram_max_used_busy_pct>
   <ram_max_used_idle_pct>90.000000</ram_max_used_idle_pct>
   <max_bytes_sec_up>0.000000</max_bytes_sec_up>
   <max_bytes_sec_down>0.000000</max_bytes_sec_down>
   <cpu_usage_limit>100.000000</cpu_usage_limit>
   <daily_xfer_limit_mb>0.000000</daily_xfer_limit_mb>
   <daily_xfer_period_days>0</daily_xfer_period_days>
</global_preferences>


-- debconf information:
  boinc-client/remove_boinc_dir: true