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Akerbeltz
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Ok it's just gotten weird again. Everything worked fine for a week and then today, I'm back to the process not starting up again. I've changed nothing since, though Windows may have updated in the background.
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Former Member
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Under which user are you installing? Still don't know why you cant find a single entry in Task Manager under Startup tab or in Services, be it in B or W range of entries.
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Akerbeltz
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Default user (only one on this PC anyway), has admin rights
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Former Member
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Might be worth opening a terminal window and typing in the full path to the boinc executable to see the start messages in the window.
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Akerbeltz
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You mean when I start it manually or what? And which exe, there's about half a dozen in the directory.
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hchc
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You mean when I start it manually or what? And which exe, there's about half a dozen in the directory. List them all for us please. I don't know if the WCG executables differ from the vanilla BOINC executables. Either way, see my original posts on the two Registry entries needed. Once those are added, you'll also see the entries in the Task Manager --> Startup tab, and things should work fine.
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Akerbeltz
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PS C:\Program Files (x86)\BOINC> .\boincmgr.exe
PS C:\Program Files (x86)\BOINC> That's all it spat out and the manager started. About the registry: there ARE no entries re Boinc or WCG that I can locate anywhere. Short of creating them. My point is that if one installs it and it works (even without identifiable entries in the registry - I checked after installation when it worked and they still weren't there), then I shouldn't have to create registry entries, that's not a reasonable thing to expect of users in general, even if I'm personally sort-of capable of doing that. |
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Former Member
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Now where is boinc.exe, which is the actual client that boincmgr.exe starts, when the option is set to do that by default?
----------------------------------------(If you did switches between 64 bit and 32 bit installs, there's a good guess where the client app might loiter.) edit: boincmgr.exe is just the graphical front end which passes and receives the activity by RPC to boinc.exe. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jun 12, 2019 8:51:15 AM] |
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Akerbeltz
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In the same directory. If I point PS at boinc.exe I get this:
PS C:\Program Files (x86)\BOINC> .\boinc.exe 13-Jun-2019 09:52:05 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.14.2 for windows_intelx86 13-Jun-2019 09:52:05 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 13-Jun-2019 09:52:05 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.47.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2o zlib/1.2.8 13-Jun-2019 09:52:05 [---] Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 13-Jun-2019 09:52:05 [---] Running under account Akerbeltz 13-Jun-2019 09:52:06 [---] CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 710 (driver version 430.86, CUDA version 10.2, compute capability 3.5, 1024MB, 825MB available, 306 GFLOPS peak) 13-Jun-2019 09:52:06 [---] OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 710 (driver version 430.86, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 1024MB, 825MB available, 306 GFLOPS peak) 13-Jun-2019 09:52:06 [---] Host name: ERESHKIGAL 13-Jun-2019 09:52:06 [---] Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4170 CPU @ 3.70GHz [Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3] 13-Jun-2019 09:52:06 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movebe popcnt aes f16c rdrandnx lm avx avx2 vmx tm2 pbe fsgsbase bmi1 smep bmi2 13-Jun-2019 09:52:06 [---] OS: Microsoft Windows 10: Core x64 Edition, (10.00.17134.00) 13-Jun-2019 09:52:06 [---] Memory: 7.94 GB physical, 9.69 GB virtual 13-Jun-2019 09:52:06 [---] Disk: 1.82 TB total, 1.46 TB free 13-Jun-2019 09:52:06 [---] Local time is UTC +1 hours 13-Jun-2019 09:52:06 [World Community Grid] URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 3437705; resource share 100 13-Jun-2019 09:52:06 [World Community Grid] General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 22-Aug-2017 22:57:35) 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [World Community Grid] Host location: none 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [World Community Grid] General prefs: using your defaults 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [---] Reading preferences override file 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [---] Preferences: 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [---] max memory usage when active: 4065.58 MB 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [---] max memory usage when idle: 6098.36 MB 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [---] max disk usage: 10.00 GB 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [---] don't compute while active 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [---] don't use GPU while active 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [---] suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25% 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [---] (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager) 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [---] Setting up project and slot directories 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [---] Checking active tasks 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [World Community Grid] Task FAH2_002463_zinc39363376_000002_000098_081_0 is 2.91 days overdue; you may not get credit for it. Consider aborting it. 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [---] Setting up GUI RPC socket 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [---] Checking presence of 182 project files 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 Initialization completed 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [---] Suspending computation - computer is in use 13-Jun-2019 09:52:07 [---] Suspending network activity - computer is in use |
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Former Member
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Let's dumb it down a few levels and go back to Windows ME days
----------------------------------------1) Goto File Explorer and paste next in address bar and enter %programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup The folder is likely empty but for maybe a desktop.ini file 2) Open a second file explorer and navigate to C:\program files(x86)\boinc 3) Right click boinc.exe and create shortcut 4) Drag the shortcut to the first file explorer window and drop it. 5) Right click and edit the shortcut and add at end of target path --daemon so it looks like "C:\Program Files(x86)\boinc\boinc.exe" --daemon Save it (you might get an admin warning). Try running it. A brief flash maybe, but Task Manager should show a boinc client process. Next time anyone signs in, boinc.exe gets executed silently, if it's still in the file location where you put it before. So far theory. If you install BOINC as a service in a permanent and not virtual/sandbox environment, it should always launch, regardless if someone is logged in or not. BTW, you've set for BOINC to pause whenever someone is at the computer. More edit: In the shortcut properties you might want to hit the Advanced button and select Run as administrator to ensure there's no obstruction. [Edit 4 times, last edit by Former Member at Jun 13, 2019 12:21:32 PM] |
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