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Johnny Cool
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 28, 2005 Post Count: 8621 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I've had this exact error trying to upgrade the 5.4.9 client. What I ended up doing is finding the install file for the 5.4.9 version and re-running it. When you do this it asks you if you want to repair or uninstall. I chose uninstall. Then I proceeded to install the 5.4.11 client(or 5.8.8). This happened on every version of 5.4.9 I had. From that time on I have all the versions of boinc on a network drive I can access just in case this happens again. -Brink brinktastee, *that* worked. I had to run the 5.4.9 version, and chose the "uninstall" option. I must have had an uninstall problem when I installed 5.4.11. Under Control panel (XP Pro sp-2), it showed that I had the Boinc 5.4.9 client installed. However, when opening Boinc, it show that I *was* running 5.4.11. Anyways, after uninstalling 5.4.9, I shut down Boinc 5.4.11, then successully installed Boinc 5.8.8. Much obliged with your advice! Hope the CA Mods will have this in Boinc read-only faqs along with your later link to older Boinc installs.  ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by Johnny Cool at Feb 5, 2007 9:28:05 PM] |
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Former Member
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I've had this exact error trying to upgrade the 5.4.9 client. What I ended up doing is finding the install file for the 5.4.9 version and re-running it. When you do this it asks you if you want to repair or uninstall. I chose uninstall. Then I proceeded to install the 5.4.11 client(or 5.8.8). This happened on every version of 5.4.9 I had. From that time on I have all the versions of boinc on a network drive I can access just in case this happens again. -Brink brinktastee, *that* worked. I had to run the 5.4.9 version, and chose the "uninstall" option. I must have had an uninstall problem when I installed 5.4.11. Under Control panel (XP Pro sp-2), it showed that I had the Boinc 5.4.9 client installed. However, when opening Boinc, it show that I *was* running 5.4.11. Anyways, after uninstalling 5.4.9, I shut down Boinc 5.4.11, then successully installed Boinc 5.8.8. Much obliged with your advice! Hope the CA Mods will have this in Boinc read-only faqs along with your later link to older Boinc installs. I very glad this worked for you.  -Brink |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
The Lazy Slug has written up a
----------------------------------------The Lazy Slug's Guide To....Easy de...NC on your network. , which happened to include a detail manual how to do reticent BOINC installs that wont upgrade or downgrade or uninstall at all. Going on past provided permission to link: How do I manually uninstall BOINC from one of...emove Programs' list? Click thru for the page to expand the subject.
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The Lazy Slug has written up a The Lazy Slug's Guide To....Easy de...NC on your network. , which happened to include a detail manual how to do reticent BOINC installs that wont upgrade or downgrade or uninstall at all. Going on past provided permission to link: How do I manually uninstall BOINC from one of...emove Programs' list? Click thru for the page to expand the subject. Is it just me or did "The Lazy Slug's" web site go away? I'm at work and can't get there. (3:48 PM CDT) That site is very helpful to me when pushing out boinc via Novell Zenworks and a transform. I hope it come back soon  |
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Noticed that yesterday. I don't know what happened.
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Perhaps the slug was too lazy to pay his domain fee. If I post the main site, it goes here, to a domain host:
----------------------------------------http://www.123-reg.co.uk/ I have had no problems installing over the top of BOINC if I exit the application and exit BOINC first. Sometimes it asks for a repair, and I simply run that also. I have even stopped 5.8.15 and reinstalled 5.4.11...and then reinstalled 5.8.15.
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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[2cents]My generalized experience is when upgrading BOINC to a newer level, I would suspend the project (only crunch WCG), exit BOINC and install over the existing. Newer level will shut BOINC down for you eliminating that step. No problems or errors upgrading - Windows platform. When regressing your BOINC level (for me, this was 5.8.x back to 5.4.11), I would shut down BOINC and install over existing newer level, BOINC would error starting from the end of the install. I would then re-run the install (not the download) and choose the "repair" option and the older level of BOINC would start and run fine.[/2cents]
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Sekerob
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Used Fineprint to dump all the pages, organised them and stuck them in a PDF..... now i cant find it
---------------------------------------- But, should we now start a fund raiser to get it back up for another year? TLS is still turning in work, so seemingly his utilities company has not cut him off
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The Windows installer handles everything. Do NOT delete any files. Do NOT exit BOINC. Simply download and run the installer (as an administrator). It will shut down BOINC, delete the old files (keeping work in progress) and install the new files automatically. It really should be as simple as that. i was putting of upgrading to newer boinc, worried about pain and hassle but i have to say i did exactly as u said as above and it worked a treat, about 3 minutes , simple. on 2 windows xp machines, very happy, i still have one machine offline waiting for a new fan ( it is easter and shops shut) but i suspect it will go equally as well.. with the ability to compress files thre should be a nice saving of bandwidth $ time etc, well done to those involved in this advance! PS i wonder if my linux box will go ok?? will let youse know.. when i am at full power i have 4 machines with a total of 6 cores 24/7 on wcg so am very happy about the compression advance.. ( i also have a PS3 going 24/7 on folding@home so u can understand that i am delighted about this.. cheers |
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I'm learning more about the Linux install options every day. Currently, if you use Debian or Ubuntu, use Synaptic to install boinc_client and boinc_manager. Everything works beautifully.
If you use Portage, avoid the BOINC package. It seems to have issues. The official (very basic) setup script from Berkeley works fine, but doesn't do much for you. It doesn't even run BOINC automatically. |
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