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fatguy
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I've been crunching data for WCG since early this year, wonderful concept!! Long story short, we had a power failure, fried my hard drive, tech guy fixed it, but now I can't get BOINC to attach to a client, keeps popping a window telling me it's disconnected. I've reinstalled the program 10 times, allowed the 2 programs through my firewall, and read just about ever post trying to figure out what to do, to no avail. I'm running windows 7 professional, BOINC 6.12.26 (x86) dual core processor with 4 gigs of ram. Been down for a week, but wanted to have my machine working through the weekend. Bear in mind, I'm not computer savvy at all.
 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Fatguy |
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sk..
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It might be that Windows has lost your .msi file. If so then the thing to do is to try a repair installation of an earlier Boinc version. Try the WCG recommended 6.10.58 version, or 6.10.60. Then either just use that, if it works, or do an uninstall. A repair will restore all the folders and structures associated with the earlier version, including the .msi file (required for uninstalling Boinc).
This thread might also help, but there are other threads on this too. https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/...ead,31089_offset,0#319393 |
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Former Member
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I've been crunching data for WCG since early this year, wonderful concept!! Long story short, we had a power failure, fried my hard drive, tech guy fixed it, but now I can't get BOINC to attach to a client, keeps popping a window telling me it's disconnected. I've reinstalled the program 10 times, allowed the 2 programs through my firewall, and read just about ever post trying to figure out what to do, to no avail. I'm running windows 7 professional, BOINC 6.12.26 (x86) dual core processor with 4 gigs of ram. Been down for a week, but wanted to have my machine working through the weekend. Bear in mind, I'm not computer savvy at all. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Fatguy International Rescue calling in: 1) If you hit Ctrl-Shft-Esc keys, hold all three in that order, the Task Manager starts. Then, left bottom hit the button to show all processes. Is boinc.exe loaded? If not, that is the explanation why BOINC manager is not connecting. 2) Disk fried, tech fixed it, does that mean you got your old OS install back or did you have to do a complete new install? 3) Also on 2) above, is there a directory in C:\ProgramData\BOINC ? (could be hidden, then type path in file explorer. If there is, not all is lost. Run the proper install, choose Protected Applic.Execution and Allow all Users (if you got the rights). Make sure to point the data directory to the path where your BOINC data was before. 4) To downgrade, run the uninstall with the last installer version you ran. After, install the WCG recommended 6.10.58 Plz do not use 6.12.xx until you here word of WCG Admin or CAs. This release was once again a premature birth. Stick to the WCG recommended 6.10.58 which you can get here >>> http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/ms/viewDownloadAgain.do . Your boss will like it better too since that one, in the WCG compile, was security audited by IBM. Let us know. --//-- |
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fatguy
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Thank you for the kind reply, one and all.
Accoring to task manager Boinc is running. Same operating system, tech claims it was a virus, he wiped the drive. I do in fact have the program directory. I've downgraded to older version, it loads now (which is an improvment) but then it just sits there "trying to connect to local host" - no data transfers, no crunching, it just sits there and mocks me....... thanks, Fatguy |
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Former Member
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Just mock back and get acquainted with the boinccmd.exe tool with which you can do pretty much all that can be done with the GUI BOINC Manager.
Before, in the BM, go to the advanced menu of advanced [grid] view, take the Select Computer and when it asks for host name/password, only type localhost and tab forward. This normally autofills the password in effect as stored in the gui_rpc_auth.cfg file. Let us know --//-- |
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fatguy
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No dice, it refuses to connect to the local host. Darn*, thanks for trying........grrrrrrrr............
---------------------------------------- *edited to appropriate forum language - ErikaT [Edit 1 times, last edit by ErikaT at May 30, 2011 12:58:06 PM] |
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Former Member
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Can you confirm to have installed 6.10.58?
----------------------------------------Did you try boinccmd to get a client status in a command window? There was a connect issue with a workaround but can't remember now. Think it was something of the WCG version versus the Berkeley standard: 32 bit: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_6.10.60_windows_intelx86.exe 64 bit: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_6.10.60_windows_x86_64.exe Just take wide circle to 6.12 till the all clear is given on a ''real'' stable version. --//-- edit: 6.10.60 was meant to fix a screensaver related issue! [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 28, 2011 6:57:45 AM] |
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fatguy
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Confirmed, but it will not connect.
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Hello fatguy,
Is there any special reason that you are running BOINC 6.12? If not, I would uninstall BOINC then try reinstalling BOINC 6.10 from the WCG site after a rebootr. Lawrence |
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sk..
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I expect he chose to run Boinc 6.12 because Berkeley (not WCG) recommends this. It has many known problems.
----------------------------------------I explained the purpose of re-installing 6.10.58; it's to better facilitate you uninstalling Boinc. Uninstall Boinc fully (all folders and registry entries), use the above linked thread if need be. Then use Boinc 6.10.58. Only if you were a tester, and I know you are not, would recommend testing 6.12.28. [Edit 1 times, last edit by skgiven at May 28, 2011 8:28:50 AM] |
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