I've been contributing to Boinc for well over a decade, and have never seen anything like this.
The time remaining was about 3 seconds 3 days ago and it's still grinding away with zero seconds remaining.
What can fix this?

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I've been contributing to Boinc for well over a decade, and have never seen anything like this.
The time remaining was about 3 seconds 3 days ago and it's still grinding away with zero seconds remaining.
What can fix this?

If you think any task is over-running, click it and select Properties, then examine the difference between overall runtime and CPU time.
If there's a big difference and CPU time doesn't seem to be going up as the task continues, it's hung for some inexplicable reason.
Best to abort it at that point, so you're not waiting a day before realising it'll never end.

Yes, this does seem to be happening a lot more frequently than ever before. But there's nothing you can do about it, as far as I know, so just cut your losses.
And no, it isn't a good solution. It's just the best bad one.

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I've been contributing to Boinc for well over a decade, and have never seen anything like this.
The time remaining was about 3 seconds 3 days ago and it's still grinding away with zero seconds remaining.
What can fix this?

Simply put ,
it`s a zombie , kill it ,
with the abort button
We don't have any other more fun ways to do it in this `game`

The CPU Time and CPU Time Since Checkpoint are both "---". Not zero, just "---".
Meaningless of course but such are programmers.
I'll kill them..
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Aborting all tasks clears the deck of all work and bakerlab isn't offering more wu's.
I guess I'm done here.

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The CPU Time and CPU Time Since Checkpoint are both "---". Not zero, just "---".
Meaningless of course but such are programmers.
I'll kill them..
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Aborting all tasks clears the deck of all work and bakerlab isn't offering more wu's.
I guess I'm done here.

Check your computer details page and see if the Vbox jobs button is enabled.
They have a thing in the system that if you send back to many "errors" the system dumps you and if there is no 4.2 work, then your out of work until you go back and enable the Vbox jobs button to get python again.

zombie tasks are becoming more and more common on BOINC.
Other projects do them as well.
I just killed on today on another project.