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crooks_uk
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given up all together now. uninstalled macfee and installed avg antivirus. disabled windows firewall. no joy. added all bionc to firewall exception list and still nothing. messages are-
----------------------------------------30/03/2007 15:28:08||Starting BOINC client version 5.8.15 for windows_intelx86 30/03/2007 15:28:08||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 30/03/2007 15:28:08||Libraries: libcurl/7.16.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8a zlib/1.2.3 30/03/2007 15:28:08||Data directory: C:\ 30/03/2007 15:28:08||Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Celeron(R) M CPU 430 @ 1.73GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 8] [fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 sse3 mmx] 30/03/2007 15:28:08||Memory: 1013.56 MB physical, 2.23 GB virtual 30/03/2007 15:28:08||Disk: 66.54 GB total, 56.72 GB free 30/03/2007 15:28:08|World Community Grid|URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 141092; location: (none); project prefs: default 30/03/2007 15:28:08||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 2007-01-11 10:23:36) 30/03/2007 15:28:08||Host location: none 30/03/2007 15:28:08||General prefs: using your defaults 30/03/2007 15:28:21|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work 30/03/2007 15:28:21|World Community Grid|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work 30/03/2007 15:28:27|World Community Grid|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509] 30/03/2007 15:28:27|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work could be sent. 30/03/2007 15:28:27|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work is available for FightAIDS@Home 30/03/2007 15:28:27|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work is available for Genome Comparison 30/03/2007 15:28:27|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work is available for Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 30/03/2007 15:28:27|World Community Grid|Message from server: No disk space (YOU must free 2630.2 MB before BOINC gets space). Review preferences for maximum disk space used. 30/03/2007 15:28:27|World Community Grid|Deferring communication for 1 hr 0 min 0 sec 30/03/2007 15:28:27|World Community Grid|Reason: requested by project any ideas anybody. works on initial install but not after reboot.
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Sekerob
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There is the 'vista and boinc' thread after the 'BOINC and Vista' version. Try your luck by un-installing and installing it to D:\BOINC\ or C:\BOINC\. Permissions on Vista is a serious issue... for some it works straight away, for others running it as Admin. The place not to put it is C:\Program Files\BOINC\...... That seems to get most going without fooling with the securities (too much).
----------------------------------------On the error specific: Message from server: No disk space (YOU must free 2630.2 MB before BOINC gets space). Review preferences for maximum disk space used. Go to your device profile in device Manager, Device Profile, Default and set the allowed space for BOINC to use to 5gb.... the default is in fact 10gb i think, so it might not be the answer.
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After much frustration trying to get BOINC to run on Vista, I finally got it working! I hope this works for everyone.
What I did was I went to the three executable files for BOINC and changed their properties to "Run as Administrator" on the compatibility tab. Then shut down and restart BOINC. Good luck to all!  hobbesdl |
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Sekerob
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That is indeed another solution.... tell Vista to handle it as were it in a mode of e.g. WinXP.... thing is, the science executable changes numbers now and than. You'd have to do it again. On multi project hosts, that is a little tedious.
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Sekerob
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After much frustration trying to get BOINC to run on Vista, I finally got it working! I hope this works for everyone. What I did was I went to the three executable files for BOINC and changed their properties to "Run as Administrator" on the compatibility tab. Then shut down and restart BOINC. Good luck to all! hobbesdl Hobbesdl, if you read this, can you specify which 3 executable: BOINC.exe: Yes of course BOINCmgr.exe: Yes of course BOINCcmd.exe:???????? wcgxxxxxxxxxxxx_windows_intelx86: ???????? If the latter, for the readers benefit, the wcgxxxxxxx science (no exe extension) is different for each project and needs updating in the permissions for each version update. This would be similar to what i have to do in my software firewall. The SFW I use notifies me if a new one needs exception, but other brands are known to not do that. cheers
WCG
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The science executable is launched under the boinc.exe security context, so shouldn't need setting explicitly.
boinccmd should never need special permissions. If boinc.exe is launched by boincmgr (the normal setup) then it will use the boincmgr security context (the interactive user) unless it has been configured to run as Administrator. When BOINC is installed as a service, then boinc.exe runs using the specified account, and assuming that account has the required permissions, no further configuration should be required. As has been observed, the particular right that Vista chokes on is that BOINC needs full control of the install directory. Vista restricts this for Program Files. |
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