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Former Member
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I find that any time I go into XP and Boinc runs there for a while, the next time I go into Win'7, I will find Boinc there screwed up, and I have to reinstall it.
Any clue as to how to avoid this. I am pretty much moving exclusively to Win'7 to avoid the hassle. |
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You can't share one BOINC installation between two operating systems.
If you have separate installations, then you must make sure each operating system identifies the computer by a different host name (otherwise the servers may have trouble distinguishing them). If neither of these suggestions fit your case, then you will have to be more specific. |
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You can't share one BOINC installation between two operating systems. If you have separate installations, then you must make sure each operating system identifies the computer by a different host name (otherwise the servers may have trouble distinguishing them). If neither of these suggestions fit your case, then you will have to be more specific. Well, the problem has gone away -- at least THAT problem :) I had such grief with a rootkit virus (twdll.dll) in XP that I repartitioned and reformatted the drive and installed ONLY W'7:64bit. It seems stable enough and everything but Photoshop and PowerDVD seem to work in it -- EXCEPT now Boinc just won't work at all now :( I have re-downloaded and re-installed several times and I can't get it going. Boinc says, "Communicating with project. Please wait..." Then W'7 says, "W C G for windows has stopped working" Could this be connected to the server confusion about who I am? |
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Hello BobRevay,
Windows 7 is new but it is similar to Vista. Here is a Start Here post about installing on Vista: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=12856 Here is the WCG Wiki on Vista: http://wcg.wikia.com/wiki/Installation_walkthrough_(Vista) Does any of this help you with Windows 7? Lawrence |
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 Egads! You're right! Now I remember; I need to install it with Vista compatibility -- that's how I got it to work before. My memory is SO bad -- but then I am 73 years old. Thanks so much for quick replies and dead-on suggestions. |
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 There's more!OK, I got WCG running invoking Vista compatibility -- seemed slower than before, but it ran. A few other app installations and reboots, and I noticed it was no longer running. Delete alles und reinstall (Vista compat) and now I find that invoking BOINC locks up the manager: <alt><ctl><del> says WCG-BOINC not reponding WCG-BOINC-localhost not responding So I launch netstat -a and find 127.0.0.1:31416 Wolfdale:0 listening 127.0.0.1:31416 www:49697 established 127.0.0.1:49697 www:31416 established and lots more that I doubt are relevant. So, Lawrence, any idea what is happening (I suspect overzealous security measures are involved). Bob |
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Hi, BobRevay.
We have a problem here. We don't support Windows 7. Even the Berkeley BOINC developers don't support Windows 7. We can try to help, but we can't make any promises. A few questions to get started: 1. What do you mean by "invoking BOINC"? 2. Are you using 6.2.28? 3. Did you choose the "Install as a service and run under a restricted account" option? Thank you. 4. Do you get this error? http://wcg.wikia.com/wiki/Unable_to_connect_to_the_core_client 5. Please will you copy the contents of stderrdae.txt and paste it here. You will find it in your data directory: http://wcg.wikia.com/wiki/Data_directory |
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Thanks for your willingness to look at this problem, 'O Didactylos. I will understand if you want me to just go away until Windows 7 is released.
----------------------------------------I ran WCG under XP originally. I had MAJOR grief with a rootkit virus under XP and that is reflected in the thrashing about you will see in stderrdae.txt as I reformatted my boot drive and re-installed XP repeatedly. When I went to dual boot with W'7 I had some problems switching between OS that prompted this thread. I started over with solely W'7 and -- installing with Vista compatibility -- I ran WCG for a while just fine. Then after installing several more apps, I found WCG (which was launching at startup) was frozen with the status line message, "connecting to localhost". Using the task manager, I had to "End process tree" to kill BOINC.exe & BOINCmgr.exe. I remember seeing and killing BOINCtray.exe too sometimes. Now your questions: 1) I launch BOINC using the shortcut, ""C:\Program Files (x86)\BOINC\boincmgr.exe"" on the start menu. As a consequence I find in task manager, boinc.exe and boincmgr.exe processes running with 00 cpu utilization. On the applications tab, I see WCG-boinc manager-(localhost) "Not Responding" 2) The BOINC version is 6.2.28.0 3) I did NOT "install as a service..." 4) I do NOT get the error message you reference. 5) I tried to copy into here the stderrdae.txt file, but I got an error when I tried to post the message. I suspect it is too big (691 KB). If it is all important, can I email, ftp, or Skype it to you? Here are the last few lines: 06-Feb-2009 12:04:57 [World Community Grid] Finished download of faah5131_004193_MC_xMut_md01670_06_AD4.1_bound.dat 06-Feb-2009 12:04:57 [World Community Grid] Finished download of faah5131_004193_MC_xMut_md01670_06_base.00020.dat 06-Feb-2009 12:04:57 [World Community Grid] Started download of faah5131_004193_MC_xMut_md01670_06_base1.00020.pdbqt 06-Feb-2009 12:04:57 [World Community Grid] Started download of faah5131_004193_MC_xMut_md01670_06_base2.00020.pdbqt 06-Feb-2009 12:04:58 [World Community Grid] Finished download of faah5131_004193_MC_xMut_md01670_06_base1.00020.pdbqt 06-Feb-2009 12:04:58 [World Community Grid] Finished download of faah5131_004193_MC_xMut_md01670_06_base2.00020.pdbqt 06-Feb-2009 12:04:58 [World Community Grid] Started download of faah5131_004193_MC_xMut_md01670_06_wcgrid.00020.gpf 06-Feb-2009 12:04:58 [World Community Grid] Started download of faah5131_004193_MC_xMut_md01670_06_wcgrid.00020.dpf 06-Feb-2009 12:04:59 [World Community Grid] Finished download of faah5131_004193_MC_xMut_md01670_06_wcgrid.00020.gpf 06-Feb-2009 12:04:59 [World Community Grid] Finished download of faah5131_004193_MC_xMut_md01670_06_wcgrid.00020.dpf 06-Feb-2009 15:11:15 [---] Suspending computation - user request 06-Feb-2009 15:11:38 [---] Resuming computation [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Feb 7, 2009 3:35:25 PM] |
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Okay. That's stdoutdae.tx, not stderrdae.txt. Not to worry, though, I'm not really interested in what it says given your other information.
For Vista, we always recommend the service install option. I think this advice will also apply to Windows 7. Here's what I want you to try: 1. Uninstall BOINC. 2. Delete everything in your data directory: http://wcg.wikia.com/wiki/Data_directory 3. Reinstall, choosing the service option: http://wcg.wikia.com/wiki/Installation_walkthrough_(Vista) Please let me know how you get on. |
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 That recipe seems to have worked. Thanks very much!Bob |
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