Folding throwing away work units - bad queue

[arogge]

I'd noticed that Folding stopped sending work units back to the server. Apparently, the queue was bad.
When the client was started, it would display:

{
The benchmark result is 1482
Unit 7's deadline (August 31 23:24) has passed.
- Preparing to get new work unit...
+ Attempting to get work packet
}

This resulted in several work units being thrown away because the client would not continue working from the checkpoint of an unfinished unit.


{
CURRENT QUEUE:
07 *READY "Folding@Home" (78) 171.64.122.136:8080 August 7 23:24 | August 31 23:24
}

I tried doing a "-send 7", but the client said: "Failed to send unit 07 to server"

Then I tried to delete it from the queue.

{
Loaded queue successfully.
Deleting work unit #7 from work queue...
- Failed to delete the requested work unit
}

I then deleted "queue.dat" and the work directory; the client is now reading the checkpoint data properly.