my boinc box gets project down, UD boxes are still fetching WUs though.

Same here....

12/20/2006 8:23:01 PM||Starting BOINC client version 5.4.11 for windows_intelx86
12/20/2006 8:23:01 PM||libcurl/7.15.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8a zlib/1.2.3
12/20/2006 8:23:01 PM||Data directory: C:\Program Files\BOINC
12/20/2006 8:23:01 PM||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz
12/20/2006 8:23:01 PM||Memory: 1023.04 MB physical, 2.90 GB virtual
12/20/2006 8:23:01 PM||Disk: 232.88 GB total, 155.55 GB free
12/20/2006 8:23:01 PM|World Community Grid|URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 69057; location: ; project prefs: default
12/20/2006 8:23:01 PM||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 2006-07-20 14:42:38)
12/20/2006 8:23:01 PM||General prefs: using your defaults
12/20/2006 8:23:01 PM||Local control only allowed
12/20/2006 8:23:01 PM||Listening on port 31416
12/20/2006 8:23:01 PM|World Community Grid|Resuming task faah1097_d098n697_x1MEU_00_1 using faah version 528
12/20/2006 8:23:01 PM|World Community Grid|Resuming task faah1097_d099n425_x1MEU_02_1 using faah version 528
12/20/2006 8:24:01 PM|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request to https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/boinc/wcg_cgi/fcgi
12/20/2006 8:24:01 PM|World Community Grid|Reason: Requested by user
12/20/2006 8:24:01 PM|World Community Grid|Requesting 12126 seconds of new work, and reporting 2 completed tasks
12/20/2006 8:24:07 PM|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded
12/20/2006 8:24:07 PM|World Community Grid|Message from server: Server can't open database
12/20/2006 8:24:07 PM|World Community Grid|Project is down
12/20/2006 8:24:37 PM|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request to https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/boinc/wcg_cgi/fcgi
12/20/2006 8:24:37 PM|World Community Grid|Reason: Requested by user
12/20/2006 8:24:37 PM|World Community Grid|Requesting 12158 seconds of new work, and reporting 2 completed tasks
12/20/2006 8:24:42 PM|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded
12/20/2006 8:24:42 PM|World Community Grid|Message from server: Server can't open database
12/20/2006 8:24:42 PM|World Community Grid|Project is down




If it doesnt restart soon I'm going to have to dump 2 complete and 2 incomplete work units.......

Thr box is supposed to upgrade to Vista tonight...

Yup -- seems the project has been offline for reporting results for the past several hours.

Perhaps the maintenance update of earlier this week turned out to be an 'unmaintenence'...

Most of the BOINC projects tend not to be 'real time' regarding unplanned outages. I'm guessing this is the case here. Not that big a deal for me, I simply divert cycles on the local workstation farm from Grid to SETI, Einstein, Climate and Climate BBC.

Over the past several months, Grid has been very reliable, I guess it was time for it to have an unplanned outage. Every other project I'm doing cycles for has had at least one outage over a day in the past 6 months except Grid, so it seems this time, Grid has the short straw.

Well, the 'no update' scenario can happen any number of ways. I think the Grid folks are in the UK (not sure of this) in which case, the problem happened during a likely admin 'sleep cycle'. Or, they might be in scramble mode to fix things and too busy to post a system down notice. Or, they might be doing a behavioral test on the user community to see if we go into SETI BOINC project user 'attack mode' as anxiety soars.