Index: db.scm
==================================================================
--- db.scm
+++ db.scm
@@ -2242,14 +2242,16 @@
 
 ;; set tests with state currstate and status currstatus to newstate and newstatus
 ;; use currstate = #f and or currstatus = #f to apply to any state or status respectively
 ;; WARNING: SQL injection risk. NB// See new but not yet used "faster" version below
 ;;
-		;;  AND NOT (item_path='' AND testname in (SELECT DISTINCT testname FROM tests WHERE testname=? AND item_path != ''));")))
-		;;(debug:print 0 "QRY: " qry)
-		;; (db:delay-if-busy)
-
+;;  AND NOT (item_path='' AND testname in (SELECT DISTINCT testname FROM tests WHERE testname=? AND item_path != ''));")))
+;;  (debug:print 0 "QRY: " qry)
+;;  (db:delay-if-busy)
+;;
+;; NB// This call only operates on toplevel tests. Consider replacing it with more general call
+;;
 (define (db:set-tests-state-status dbstruct run-id testnames currstate currstatus newstate newstatus)
   (for-each (lambda (testname)
 	      (let ((qry (conc "UPDATE tests SET state=?,status=? WHERE "
 			       (if currstate  (conc "state='" currstate "' AND ") "")
 			       (if currstatus (conc "status='" currstatus "' AND ") "")
@@ -2257,12 +2259,13 @@
 		(db:with-db
 		 dbstruct
 		 run-id
 		 #t
 		 (lambda (db)
-		   (sqlite3:execute db qry newstate newstatus run-id testname)
-		   (mt:process-triggers run-id test-id newstate newstatus)
+		   (let ((test-id (db:get-test-id dbstruct run-id testname "")))
+		     (sqlite3:execute db qry newstate newstatus run-id testname)
+		     (if test-id (mt:process-triggers run-id test-id newstate newstatus)))
 		   ))))
 	    testnames))
 
 ;; speed up for common cases with a little logic
 ;; NB// Ultimately this will be deprecated in deference to mt:test-set-state-status-by-id

Index: tests/fullrun/megatest.config
==================================================================
--- tests/fullrun/megatest.config
+++ tests/fullrun/megatest.config
@@ -145,11 +145,11 @@
 # RUNDEAD [system exit 56]
 
 [server]
 
 # force use of server always
-required yes
+# required yes
 
 # Use http instead of direct filesystem access
 transport http
 # transport fs
 # transport nmsg
@@ -161,20 +161,19 @@
 port 9080
 
 # This server will keep running this number of hours after last access. 
 # Three minutes is 0.05 hours
 # timeout 0.025
-timeout 0.061
+timeout 0.01
 
 # faststart; unless no, start server but proceed with writes until server started
-faststart no
-# faststart yes
+# faststart no
+faststart yes
 
 # Start server when average query takes longer than this
 # server-query-threshold 55500
 server-query-threshold 1000
-timeout 0.01
 
 # daemonize yes
 # hostname #{scheme (get-host-name)}
 
 ## disks are:

Index: tests/unittests/runs.scm
==================================================================
--- tests/unittests/runs.scm
+++ tests/unittests/runs.scm
@@ -320,10 +320,16 @@
 (test "server stop" #f (let ((hostname (car  *runremote*))
 			     (port     (cadr *runremote*)))
 			 (tasks:kill-server #t hostname port server-pid 'http)
 			 (open-run-close tasks:get-best-server tasks:open-db)))
 
+;;======================================================================
+;; M O R E   R E M O T E   C A L  L S
+;;======================================================================
+
+(test #f #f (rmt:set-tests-state-status 1 '("runfirst") "RUNNING" "WARN" "COMPLETED" "FAIL"))
+
 ;; (cdb:kill-server *runremote*)
 
 ;; (thread-join! th1 th2 th3)
 
 ;; ADD ME!!!! (db:get-prereqs-not-met *db* 1 '("runfirst") "" mode: 'normal)