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Re: adding wcg to boinc manager results in "missing or bad parameter: email_addr"

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!

I just ran into this the other night after a clean install of Windows, and this solved my problem. Thanks! :)

[Dec 5, 2014 4:06:13 AM]

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Re: adding wcg to boinc manager results in "missing or bad parameter: email_addr"

after using the "correct" weak accountkey, this solution worked for me. (was using weak key from another project thinking it was the same across projects. silly me :) )

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[Dec 9, 2014 2:47:09 AM]

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Re: adding wcg to boinc manager results in "missing or bad parameter: email_addr"

If someone can please show me how to fix the same problem on os x yosemite I would be very happy.

[Dec 9, 2014 6:51:36 PM]

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Re: adding wcg to boinc manager results in "missing or bad parameter: email_addr"

What is your boinc version?

[Dec 9, 2014 6:58:34 PM]

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Re: adding wcg to boinc manager results in "missing or bad parameter: email_addr"

borup wrote:
If someone can please show me how to fix the same problem on os x yosemite I would be very happy.

Hi borup and welcome to the forum wink

Have you tried my (or any other) recommendation from this thread?

Cheers and good luck

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Re: adding wcg to boinc manager results in "missing or bad parameter: email_addr"

So far I have looked around the web and found out that the issue may be solve with a earlier version of Boinc (earlier than 7.4). I have not tried this yet because they state that support for os x 10.10 Yosemite has been added to the latest version of Boinc, version 7.4.26.

I have found out that I may resolve the problem with the above method. However I do not know how to do it on my mac. I have tried to enter "boinccmd" in terminal but the command does not exist. Therefore I hope you know how I can solve it.

P.S to make it clear, my version of Boinc is 7.4.26.

regards

[Dec 9, 2014 10:13:38 PM]

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Re: adding wcg to boinc manager results in "missing or bad parameter: email_addr"

good lord, what is all that tech stuff about ?? i had the same problem. so i decided to try get my BOINC from here at wcg. it downloaded and installed easily !! no need to run yourselves into the tech ground, lol

[Dec 10, 2014 5:43:29 AM]

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Re: adding wcg to boinc manager results in "missing or bad parameter: email_addr"

Hi, I'm trying this, with several variations of .txt .xml as ends to the text file in both /Library/Application Support/Boinc Data and /Library/Application Support/Boinc. I'm not running the world grid distro, I'm running Boinc's own v7.4.26 and get the "no email address found" error when trying to add my account through the client.

I pasted in my weak code using text edit, generated the file and moved as detailed interspersed with rebooting the Boinc client.

Running Mavericks 10.9.5

Any recommendations as to where I should be moving the file or other ways around this error?

Maybe theres something more in this thread but most of whats posted looks topical to Windows.

Regards

[Dec 13, 2014 7:01:17 PM]