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Former Member
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I believe it's a known problem, but what's the word on Boinc getting disconnected from localhost?
----------------------------------------Running on multiple distributed machines, I average at least one a day that must have the manager restarted becuase the work is no longer conected. Is this fixed in the beta builds? Thanks! [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Sep 27, 2006 5:53:17 PM] |
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Former Member
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I am not aware of this problem. If you are connecting remotely, then you are not connecting to localhost.
It is possible your firewall is killing the connection, or that you have some other network fault. There is no need to run the manager at all. BOINC will run disconnected perfectly happily. |
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Former Member
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Perhaps manager was not the proper word, although that is the name of the boinc gui under windows.
----------------------------------------Every machine that I run boinc on loses the connection to the running project. I can come into work in the morning and at least one machine will be sitting idle. The fix is to stop and start the boinc application. It's listed here as a bug: http://boinc-wiki.ath.cx/index.php?title=Curr...ject_Science_Applications [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Sep 28, 2006 12:02:21 AM] |
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Former Member
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There are three parts to BOINC running on your computer. The BOINC Manager, the BOINC core client, and the WCG science application.
It may be listed on the wiki, but the wiki gives no references at all. I think it's out of date. That issue is also different to the one you seem now to be describing. Please will you cut and paste that part of the message log leading up to this problem? There are a number of causes for what you are seeing, and they are nearly all logged. Either look under the "messages" tab, or look for stdout*.txt in the BOINC folder. |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Is it just disconnected, allowing u to close the BOINCmgr.exe via the File, Close option, or is it non-responsive? Battled it for months, in the end it was a case of Software Firewall 'overwhelmed' by multiple comm streams from different directions. Could actually replicate it in the end.
----------------------------------------Indeed BOINC.exe+science would just happily continue crunching. Restarting BOINCmgr.exe would in fact preserve all the log entries under the messages tab......no entries loosing connectivity. At BOINC forum there was actually a thread started by the developer for this specific observation, his interest being any particular firewall. ciao
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Former Member
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It is just disconnected.
----------------------------------------Normally the window title is "BOINC Manager - (localhost)". When this happens the window title is "BOINC Manager - ()". It seems to happen when a computing task finishes. On restart the very first thing that happens is a results upload (not send). Firewall is the standard Windows firewall, plus Checkpoint FW1 running out to the world. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Sep 28, 2006 2:03:00 PM] |
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Sekerob
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try this one:
----------------------------------------Message 421846 - Posted 16 Sep 2006 16:46:25 UTC Something else is taking up TCP port 31416 then in your system. This port is used by Boinc.xex and Boincmgr.exe to communicate with each other. (The screen saver Boinc.scr uses this port as well). Things to try are: 1. Exit BOINC completely. Open BOINC Manager, File->Exit. Make sure no Boinc icons are visible in your system tray (next to the clock). Then restart Boinc Manager. Start->Programs->BOINC, Boinc Manager. If you run as a service, stop the service, then restart it, then open BM. 0r 2. Check that you have a file called gui_rpc_auth.cfg in your \BOINC\ directory. If you do, open it, check what is in there. If you never changed it, it should be a hexadecimal 32 character key in there. Copy that key, close the file. Open Boinc Manager, click No/Cancel on the error message. Then click Advanced, Select Computer. In the window that opens, type localhost in the top bar, paste the key (rightclick, paste) in the lower bar, click OK. Or 3. Reboot the computer. See if that clears it up. ____________ Jord.
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Former Member
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i've had this problem happen twice in less than 2 weeks on one machine. this afternoon i tried looking in the gui_rpc_auth.cfg file, but it wouldn't open unless i told it what program to use. i choose boinc, but all it would do is flash on/off instead of opening. i then rebooted and still no joy, so i ended up reinstalling boinc going from 5.4.9 to 5.4.11. in the future i would like to try looking in the gui_rpc_auth.cfg file. what should i use to open it? notepad maybe?
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Charles Chan
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 24, 2005 Post Count: 177 Status: Offline |
Anytime this has happened to any of my rigs, I just Ctrl+Alt+Del, highlight the boinc manager, click on "End Process", then restart the Boinc Manager... should come back on... Has not happened to any of my rigs for a while now... maybe the last 4-5 weeks since the last occurence.
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Former Member
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vavega, yes, it is a text file. You can view it with Notepad.
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