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Thread: adding wcg to boinc manager results in "missing or bad parameter: email_addr" |
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riclas
Cruncher Joined: Nov 12, 2014 Post Count: 5 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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hi guys,
After creating a wcg account and entering the login into the boinc manager -> add project form i get the error "missing or bad parameter: email_addr". does anyone know how i can solve this? thank you |
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PMH_UK
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 777 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Welcome to WCG.
----------------------------------------WCG wants userid when signing up, unlike most that use email addr. Paul.
Paul.
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riclas
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Hi paul,
when signing in to wcg on boinc manager i tried using the account key on the username field also. same error. i tried the wcg username or account key on the username field and wcg password on the password. I get the error with both. |
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PMH_UK
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For you the userid to use is
----------------------------------------riclas and the password is the one you used when you created the account and use to sign in to the web site. The userid is probably case sensitive, the password certainly is. Paul.
Paul.
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Former Member
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Can not find this particular error to have been reported before at these forums, but a deep search on the internet popped up this -wcg related- discussion from 2006: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=1243
Sigh, perusing it appears to be security software related, proxy maybe. |
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riclas
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yeah i found that post also, it was the only thing related to this bug... haven't tried using a proxy yet.
paul, what you are calling userid i called username :) that was obviously what i tried first. and i get the error. |
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Former Member
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The account key method has been exampled in several posts on these forums. Done through a command window using the boinccmd tool:
----------------------------------------boinccmd --project_attach www.worldcommunitygrid.org account_key [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Nov 16, 2014 10:10:06 PM] |
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riclas
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that worked! thank you lavaflow
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Former Member
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Anyone who gets the error -155 trying to attach to wcg with 7.4.x agents on windows, which included me reproducing the issue, needs to follow the instructions as given in this faq: http://boincfaq.mundayweb.com/index.php?view=349
----------------------------------------1) identify the exact path where the boinc data directory is, printed in the event log at startup, in my case it being g:\boinc\ 2) open a terminal/command window and enter the below, where the quotes are required if there are spaces anywhere in the path names: cd /d "g:\boinc\" 3) enter the boinccmd, again with quotes if there are spaces in the path names of folders where the account key, a 32 character code, is found at 'settings > my profile' on the website. Replace 'accountkey' with your code. "c:\program files\boinc\boinccmd" --project_attach www.worldcommunitygrid.org accountkey The path for 32 bit agent installs on 64 bit windows could also be: "c:\program files (x86)\boinc\boinccmd" --project_attach www.worldcommunitygrid.org accountkey Eight years after the faq was raised there's a regression in at least 7.4.26. Going back to 7.2.42 or 7.2.47 of wcg is the other know solution! [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Nov 18, 2014 6:03:14 PM] |
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Former Member
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I am having this same issue. BOINC asks for the user ID and password, and promptly returns the error missing email address. If you put in the email address and password, it returns invalid user name. It seems to me that if WCG wants to use BOINC associated computers they should also use the Standard BOINC projects attach processes. If they want the user ID AND email address then they should provide a place to enter both.
After having tried all of the above suggestions, I think I shall simply move on. Regards |
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