hi hoihoi8,

The program is called BOINC which stands for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing.

Start by following the error window. Hit OK and hit the Advanced (View) button bottom right. Go to Project Tab and tell us if World Community Grid is listed as a project.

After, go to the Message tab and copy a good length of the log entries (select and button on left to copy) and paste in your next post, so we can see what the program is reporting.

Here's 2 links to a wiki explaining more about BOINCmgr:

Simple View: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/Manager

Advanced View: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ManagerAdvanced

hai hai

I'm confused because your first post suggested you had things running before. Anything at all happening 2 days ago?

Okay,

- Do Crtrl-Shift-Esc for Taskmanager and tell us if a BOINC.exe is visible

If so,

- Goto BOINCmgr, Advanced menu, Select Computer and simply hit OK

If anything appears in the BOINCMGR windows Project & Message Tab you're okay

If Not,

- Go to the Tools Menu and do Attach a Project > Next
- Select WCG from the drop down list and ok to get to member name / password screen
- If nothing is listed type http://worldcommunitygrid.org/ and okay

Report back if solved or still stuck

Okay. First, this isn't a problem with your Internet connection.

The problem is that the different parts of BOINC can't talk, probably because your security software is blocking it. This happens sometimes, and is especially annoying when it happens without informing you.

To fix it, open the control panel for your security software or firewall, and find the rule that is blocking BOINC. Change it to "Allow" and things should work again.

Please let me know what security software was causing the problem, so we will be able to help users better in the future.

And of course, come back to us if this doesn't work or if you need further information.

Thank you.

the Advanced > Select Computer > "localhost" thing still doesn't work. Anyone have anymore ideas on how to connect the World Community Grid client to my computer?

Is there a way I can force the errors to print somewhere, or maybe manually connect it?

BOINC consists of multiple modules (boinc.exe, boincmgr.exe, boinctray.exe, boinccmd.exe and boinc.scr) that need to communicate with each other on TCP port 31416. If you don't allow BOINC to communicate on the localhost through the firewall, you can get problems like this.

Checking in Windows Task Manager if boinc.exe starts up when you start BOINC Manager is a good way to see if everything works.

-If both boinc.exe (the client) and boincmgr.exe (the GUI) show in Task Manager, but you get the message that BOINC Manager cannot connect to the client, then you didn't allow them to talk to each other through your firewall.

-If only boincmgr.exe shows in Task Manager, then the client never started up, or it crashed. If you didn't manually end it on the list there, that is. This may be a permissions problem, a corrupt install, or just dumb luck. Reinstalling BOINC or doing a repair install from Add/Remove Programs should fix this.

-If both boinc.exe and boincmgr.exe show in Task Manager and you allowed all parts of BOINC to communicate on TCP port 31416, it may be that you have a password problem. Usually going Advanced->Select Computer->Leaving both boxes empty, then clicking OK (not using Enter!), will fix that. If not, make sure you exited BOINC completely, then navigate to your BOINC directory and delete gui_rpc_auth.cfg

Restart BOINC and see if that fixes it. If it doesn't, go back to gui_rpc_auth.cfg and open it again. Now delete the key in there, then insert a password of your own. Press Enter once. Save the file and restart BOINC, going to Advanced->Select computer->fill in localhost and your password, click OK.


The failures to connect are shown in Windows Event Viewer->Applications log.