> I just took a look at one of my machines and found that my account has been
> hosed like many others.
> This took place 3/15/99 at about 3:30 UTC (about 1.5 hours ago
> for me).
>
> Aaron Blosser outlined a way to correct the problem manually, but I do not
> understand the steps.
> Can someone in the know spell it out in detail please?
I assume you're using Prime95 ... if you're using NTPrime, the
procedure is similar (use NTSetup to make the neccessary
changes), you should probably stop the prime service (from control
panel/services) before starting to fiddle, start it again when you're
done. Sorry, I don't know the procedure for mprime. Edit prime.ini, I
guess.
1. Go into the "Test/User Information" submenu and change the
user ID and password back to what they used to be. The program
should contact the PrimeNet server and update the user info. This
fixes any results which you have sent in belonging to the
"spurious" user.
2. You may also want to fix your worktodo.ini file. (Though this is
not essential. Any "lost" exponents will eventually time out and be
reassigned. You will not have been working actively on these, so
you are not losing credit).
The first thing to do is to get your personal account info off the
server. Having done that, check which exponents are logged
against your account which are no longer in your worktodo.ini file. If
you find none, you need take no action.
Having done that, you can *either* use the manual testing pages to
release those exponents, *or* edit the appropriate data into your
worktodo.ini file (the place to put them is just after the first line).
The personal account info contains the neccessary detail (test
type, exponent & factoring depth)
N.B. you must stop Prime95 whilst editing worktodo.ini, else
Prime95 will overwrite your edits ... use the "Stop" option in the
Test menu, edit worktodo.ini then use "Continue".
Having done that, it might be a good idea to force an update (check
"Send new completion dates" in Test/PrimeNet), after the server
has been contacted then re-check your personal account report.
You may find that Prime95 "throws back" some exponents ... this
is normal, if it finds that you have too much work queued up (as a
consequence of grabbing some more work when worktodo.ini got
bombed by the server problem).
Regards
Brian Beesley
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