Suddenly, one of my windows XP machines is having a problem with BOINC. When starting BOINC, all the normal startup text shows in the messages tab, showing things like the URLs for all the attached projects. Then a split second later, everything goes blank. The icon in the system tray has the white circle with the red dot in the center, and then I get a pop-up saying "The BOINC manager is not able to connect to the BOINC client. Would you like to try tot connect again?" Clicking on Yes does not do anything, and the message pops up again.

It seems to be working correctly for a split second at start up, and then losing the connection.

I have tried re-running the installer to "repair". I have tried re-running the installer to "remove", and then reinstalling. This is with both 5.10.13, and 5.10.20. No change in results.

Suggestions?

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

Make sure your firewall didn't start blocking TCP port 31416 all of a sudden.
And check if your gui_rpc_auth.cfg file is still available in the BOINC directory, if it still is only around 1KB and just holds the password that came with it, or the password you provided.

Rebooting the machine will also help at times.

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Make sure your firewall didn't start blocking TCP port 31416 all of a sudden.
And check if your gui_rpc_auth.cfg file is still available in the BOINC directory, if it still is only around 1KB and just holds the password that came with it, or the password you provided.

Rebooting the machine will also help at times.

Thanks.

I tried turning off the firewall completely.

My gui_rpc_auth.cfg file is unchanged, and 1k.

I have rebooted many times now (the first thing I try with windows boxes).

Any other suggestions?

Edit: I uninstalled BOINC again, renamed the BOINC folder to something else, then reinstalled BOINC. Works like a charm. So now I need to figure out what is wrong with my BOINC folder. I am attached to about 50 projects, and have lots of work from many of them in progress (quad core). Any ideas?

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

Does this help? it looks like it is ABC, or whatever BOINC was going to do just after contacting ABC...

Any way to manually remove ABC from the list of attached projects (without starting BOINC), to see if that helps?

To pause/resume tasks hit CTRL-C, to exit hit CTRL-BREAK
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.10.13 for windows_intelx86
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.16.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [---] Data directory: C:\Program Files\BOINC
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [SETI@home] Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [---] Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.66GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 7]
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [---] Processor features: fpu tsc sse sse2 mmx
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [---] Memory: 3.37 GB physical, 5.22 GB virtual
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [---] Disk: 34.46 GB total, 25.69 GB free
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [ABC@home] URL: http://abcathome.com/; Computer ID: 17952; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [http://abcbeta.math.leidenuniv.nl/] URL: http://abcbeta.math.leidenuniv.nl/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [RND@home] URL: http://arcoboinc.unex.es/rnd/; Computer ID: 203; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [BelgianBeerAtHome] URL: http://bebeer.dyndns.org/bebeer/; Computer ID: 1841; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [rosetta@home] URL: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/; Computer ID: 534797; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [boincsimap] URL: http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/; Computer ID: 55125; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [Leiden Classical] URL: http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/; Computer ID: 24501; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [SHA-1 Collision Search Graz] URL: http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at/sha1_coll_search/; Computer ID: 231; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [Riesel Sieve Project] URL: http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/; Computer ID: 20457; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [The Lattice Project] URL: http://boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/; Computer ID: 1337; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [vtu@home] URL: http://boinc.vtu.lt/vtuathome/; Computer ID: 4423; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [BURP] URL: http://burp.boinc.dk/; Computer ID: 23428; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [superlinkattechnion] URL: http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/; Computer ID: 2431; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [Rectilinear Crossing Numbers] URL: http://dist.ist.tugraz.at/cape5/; Computer ID: 17089; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [sudoku] URL: http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/; Computer ID: 64; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [Einstein@Home] URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID: 967216; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [test boinc project] URL: http://elm.cis.uncw.edu/testBoinc/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [Enigma@Home] URL: http://enigma.no-ip.net:443/enigma/; Computer ID: 14; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [gerasim@home] URL: http://gerasim.boinc.ru/gerasim/; Computer ID: 1007; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [Hydrogen@Home] URL: http://hydrogenathome.org/; Computer ID: 51; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [IMP test] URL: http://impfarm.imp.org/boinc/; Computer ID: 53; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [vgtu@home] URL: http://inga.vtu.lt/boincproject/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [BOINC alpha test] URL: http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/alpha/; Computer ID: 1850; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [Cunning Plan] URL: http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/cplan/; Computer ID: 166; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [Project TANPAKU] URL: http://issofty17.is.noda.tus.ac.jp/; Computer ID: 29833; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [lhcathome] URL: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/; Computer ID: 4094262; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [BRaTS@Home] URL: http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/; Computer ID: 254; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [Project Neuron] URL: http://neuron.mine.nu/neuron/; Computer ID: 2201; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [Pirates@Home] URL: http://pirates.spy-hill.net/; Computer ID: 32970; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [Predictor @ Home] URL: http://predictor.scripps.edu/; Computer ID: 343448; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [QMC@HOME] URL: http://qah.uni-muenster.de/; Computer ID: 41370; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [ralph@home] URL: http://ralph.bakerlab.org/; Computer ID: 8842; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [SETI@home] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 2984645; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [SETI@home Beta Test] URL: http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/; Computer ID: 16829; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [Spinhenge@home] URL: http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/; Computer ID: 49271; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [SZTAKI Desktop Grid] URL: http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/; Computer ID: 273550; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [APS@Home] URL: http://www.apsathome.org/; Computer ID: 3929; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [chess960@home alpha] URL: http://www.chess960athome.org/alpha/; Computer ID: 49635; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [Cosmology@Home] URL: http://www.cosmologyathome.org/; Computer ID: 449; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [DepSpid] URL: http://www.depspid.net/; Computer ID: 3155; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [malariacontrol.net beta] URL: http://www.malariacontrol.net/; Computer ID: 12132; location: work; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [PrimeGrid] URL: http://www.primegrid.com/; Computer ID: 34937; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [yoyo@home] URL: http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/; Computer ID: 339; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [SciLINC] URL: http://www.scilinc.org/SciLINC/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [uFluids] URL: http://www.ufluids.net/; Computer ID: 50689; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [World Community Grid] URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 216359; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [XtremLab] URL: http://xw01.lri.fr:4320/; Computer ID: 37799; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [---] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 2007-09-10 07:20:43)
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [---] Host location: home
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [---] General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 3282.29MB
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3420.49MB
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 24.30GB
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [---] Contacting account manager at http://bam.boincstats.com/
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [vtu@home] [file_xfer] Started upload of file wu_439726789_0_439736789_0_c15_4_0
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [DepSpid] Restarting task spider_121232_0 using spider version 517
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [SETI@home Beta Test] Restarting task ap_03mr07ae_B5_P0_00217_20070809_31930.wu_4 using astropulse version 418
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [vtu@home] Restarting task wu_439196789_0_439206789_0_c15_2 using client version 401
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [vtu@home] Restarting task wu_440196789_0_440206789_0_c15_3 using client version 401
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [vtu@home] Restarting task wu_440666789_0_440676789_0_c15_4 using client version 401
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [http://abcbeta.math.leidenuniv.nl/] Sending scheduler request: Requested by account manager
2007-09-12 08:24:56 [http://abcbeta.math.leidenuniv.nl/] (not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks)

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

Well... in theory, you could start it from the command line and detach that way.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BoincCmd

But you're using BAM!. So, my guess is that it won't let you detach.

There is a switch to detach from the AMS.


Or...

How about temporarily reinstalling it as a service? That would let the client start without the manager.


(It's late so I could be talking complete and utter nonsense here too.)

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Kathryn :o)

Looks like ABC Beta... and are you using an account manager?

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Also, VTU is *gone*. The URL is no longer valid. Could this be causing it?

Yes, I am using BAM.

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

OK, I'd goto BAM and detach from VTU there, possibly also ABC Beta if needed.

Then start BOINC from the command line and synch with the account manager.
boinc_cmd --acct_mgr_rpc

I think you know how to navigate around in a command line box? :-)

Having done that, test to see if you can restart BM.

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I removed abc beta and VTU via BAM. Then:

boinc_cmd is not a recognized command. However, boinccmd is.

boinccmd --acct_mgr_rpc
connect: no error
can't connect to local host

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

Still sounds like a firewall problem to me.

Or something that just went wrong with (permissions?) the BOINC directory.
By the way, you can easily recover the work in the old directory. Sorry, I saw the edit a bit late. So if you want to, you can ignore my PM.

But for that you just exit BOINC.
Copy all sub-directories and their files from the old directory to the new one.
Copy over all account_*.xml files.
Copy over client_state.xml

Then restart BOINC in the new directory.

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I removed abc beta and VTU via BAM. Then:

boinc_cmd is not a recognized command. However, boinccmd is.

boinccmd --acct_mgr_rpc
connect: no error
can't connect to local host

Duh. Have to start the boinc client first. Did that, but then the client quits suddenly too.

The actual errors are scrolling off the buffer. How do I crease the buffer size beyond 999?

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

Still sounds like a firewall problem to me.

Or something that just went wrong with (permissions?) the BOINC directory.
By the way, you can easily recover the work in the old directory. Sorry, I saw the edit a bit late. So if you want to, you can ignore my PM.

But for that you just exit BOINC.
Copy all sub-directories and their files from the old directory to the new one.
Copy over all account_*.xml files.
Copy over client_state.xml

Then restart BOINC in the new directory.

The only firewall I have is the one that came with windows, and it is not turned on.

I'll give this a shot.

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

The actual errors are scrolling off the buffer. How do I crease the buffer size beyond 999?

If it's possible, it's in the properties of the command line window.
But aren't they logged to stderrdae.txt, by chance?

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The actual errors are scrolling off the buffer. How do I crease the buffer size beyond 999?

If it's possible, it's in the properties of the command line window.
But aren't they logged to stderrdae.txt, by chance?

BOINCmgr was logging it in that file, but when running it from the command line, no, nothing was logged. Here is the output when running the mgr:

BOINC Windows Runtime Debugger Version 5.10.13


Dump Timestamp : 09/12/07 09:24:42
Debugger Engine : 4.0.5.0
Symbol Search Path: C:\Program Files\BOINC;C:\Program Files\BOINC;srv*C:\DOCUME~1\ERIKVE~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols;srv*C:\DOCUME~1\ERIKVE~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\symbols*http://boinc.berkeley.edu/symstore


ModLoad: 00400000 00071000 C:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.exe (5.10.13.0) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.10.13
Company Name : Space Sciences Laboratory
Product Name : BOINC client
Product Version: 5.10.13

ModLoad: 7c900000 000b0000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll (5.1.2600.2180) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2180

ModLoad: 7c800000 000f5000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll (5.1.2600.3119) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.3119 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.070416-1301)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.3119

Get Company Name Failed.
ModLoad: 10000000 00013000 C:\Program Files\BOINC\zlib1.dll (1.2.3.0) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 1.2.3
Company Name :
Product Name : zlib
Product Version: 1.2.3

ModLoad: 78130000 0009b000 C:\Program Files\BOINC\MSVCR80.dll (8.0.50727.762) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 8.00.50727.762
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ Visual StudioÆ 2005
Product Version: 8.00.50727.762

ModLoad: 77c10000 00058000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll (7.0.2600.2180) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 7.0.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 7.0.2600.2180

ModLoad: 00340000 0002f000 C:\Program Files\BOINC\libcurl.dll (7.16.1.0) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 7.16.1
Company Name : The cURL library, http://curl.haxx.se/
Product Name : The cURL library
Product Version: 7.16.1

ModLoad: 71ad0000 00009000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\WSOCK32.dll (5.1.2600.2180) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2180

ModLoad: 71ab0000 00017000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2_32.dll (5.1.2600.2180) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2180

ModLoad: 71aa0000 00008000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2HELP.dll (5.1.2600.2180) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2180

ModLoad: 77dd0000 0009b000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.dll (5.1.2600.2180) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2180

ModLoad: 77e70000 00091000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll (5.1.2600.2180) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2180

ModLoad: 76b40000 0002d000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINMM.dll (5.1.2600.2180) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2180

ModLoad: 7e410000 00090000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll (5.1.2600.3099) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.3099 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.070308-0222)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.3099

ModLoad: 77f10000 00047000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll (5.1.2600.3159) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.3159 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.070619-1300)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.3159

ModLoad: 00480000 000fd000 C:\Program Files\BOINC\LIBEAY32.dll (0.9.8.5) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 0.9.8e
Company Name : The OpenSSL Project, http://www.openssl.org/
Product Name : The OpenSSL Toolkit
Product Version: 0.9.8e

ModLoad: 00380000 00030000 C:\Program Files\BOINC\SSLEAY32.dll (0.9.8.5) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 0.9.8e
Company Name : The OpenSSL Project, http://www.openssl.org/
Product Name : The OpenSSL Toolkit
Product Version: 0.9.8e

ModLoad: 7c420000 00087000 C:\Program Files\BOINC\MSVCP80.dll (8.0.50727.762) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 8.00.50727.762
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ Visual StudioÆ 2005
Product Version: 8.00.50727.762

ModLoad: 76390000 0001d000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\IMM32.DLL (5.1.2600.2180) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2180

ModLoad: 00c30000 00008000 C:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.dll (5.10.13.0) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.10.13
Company Name : Space Sciences Laboratory
Product Name : BOINC Core Client
Product Version: 5.10.13

ModLoad: 77fe0000 00011000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll (5.1.2600.2180) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2180

ModLoad: 71a50000 0003f000 C:\WINDOWS\System32\mswsock.dll (5.1.2600.2180) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2180

ModLoad: 76f20000 00027000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\DNSAPI.dll (5.1.2600.2938) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2938 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.060626-0020)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2938

ModLoad: 76fb0000 00008000 C:\WINDOWS\System32\winrnr.dll (5.1.2600.2180) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2180

ModLoad: 76f60000 0002c000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\WLDAP32.dll (5.1.2600.2180) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2180

ModLoad: 76fc0000 00006000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\rasadhlp.dll (5.1.2600.2938) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2938 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.060626-0020)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2938

ModLoad: 662b0000 00058000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\hnetcfg.dll (5.1.2600.2180) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2180

ModLoad: 71a90000 00008000 C:\WINDOWS\System32\wshtcpip.dll (5.1.2600.2180) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2180

ModLoad: 77b40000 00022000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\Apphelp.dll (5.1.2600.2180) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2180

ModLoad: 03000000 00115000 C:\Program Files\BOINC\dbghelp.dll (6.6.7.5) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 6.6.0007.5 (debuggers(dbg).051021-1446)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : Debugging Tools for Windows(R)
Product Version: 6.6.0007.5

ModLoad: 01e20000 00083000 C:\Program Files\BOINC\symsrv.dll (6.6.7.5) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 6.6.0007.5 (debuggers(dbg).051021-1446)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : Debugging Tools for Windows(R)
Product Version: 6.6.0007.5

ModLoad: 01eb0000 0003a000 C:\Program Files\BOINC\srcsrv.dll (6.6.7.5) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 6.6.0007.5 (debuggers(dbg).051021-1446)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : Debugging Tools for Windows(R)
Product Version: 6.6.0007.5

ModLoad: 77c00000 00008000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\version.dll (5.1.2600.2180) (PDB Symbols Loaded)
File Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Company Name : Microsoft Corporation
Product Name : MicrosoftÆ WindowsÆ Operating System
Product Version: 5.1.2600.2180



*** Dump of the Process Statistics: ***

- I/O Operations Counters -
Read: 426, Write: 0, Other 1347

- I/O Transfers Counters -
Read: 0, Write: 12430, Other 0

- Paged Pool Usage -
QuotaPagedPoolUsage: 21620, QuotaPeakPagedPoolUsage: 22564
QuotaNonPagedPoolUsage: 35664, QuotaPeakNonPagedPoolUsage: 37568

- Virtual Memory Usage -
VirtualSize: 37425152, PeakVirtualSize: 38146048

- Pagefile Usage -
PagefileUsage: 10149888, PeakPagefileUsage: 10891264

- Working Set Size -
WorkingSetSize: 12845056, PeakWorkingSetSize: 13578240, PageFaultCount: 13800

*** Dump of the thread (858): ***

- Information -
Status: Waiting, Wait Reason: UserRequest, Kernel Time: 1875000.000000, User Time: 781250.000000, Wait Time: 68234.000000

- Registers -
eax=00000000 ebx=0012f940 ecx=0043ac4b edx=7c9037d8 esi=00000064 edi=00000000
eip=7c90eb94 esp=0012f1ec ebp=0012f250
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00000246

- Callstack -
ChildEBP RetAddr Args to Child
0012f1e8 7c90e9c0 7c8025cb 00000064 00000000 00000000 ntdll!_KiFastSystemCallRet@0+0x0 FPO: [0,0,0]
0012f1ec 7c8025cb 00000064 00000000 00000000 7813ed0f ntdll!_ZwWaitForSingleObject@12+0x0 FPO: [3,0,0]
0012f250 7c802532 00000064 ffffffff 00000000 0012f918 kernel32!_WaitForSingleObjectEx@12+0x0
0012f264 004443f7 00000064 ffffffff 0012f7fc 00444370 kernel32!_WaitForSingleObject@8+0x0
0012f27c 7c863016 0012f940 00000000 00000000 00000000 boinc!boinc_catch_signal+0xf (c:\src\boincsvn\branches\boinc_core_release_5_10\lib\diagnostics_win.c:2143)
0012f918 7c8436da 0012f940 7c839b09 0012f948 00000000 kernel32!_UnhandledExceptionFilter@4+0x0 (c:\src\boincsvn\branches\boinc_core_release_5_10\lib\diagnostics_win.c:2143)
0012f920 7c839b09 0012f948 00000000 0012f948 00000000 kernel32!_BaseProcessStart@4+0x0 (c:\src\boincsvn\branches\boinc_core_release_5_10\lib\diagnostics_win.c:2143) FPO: [0,0,0]
0012f948 7c9037bf 0012fa34 0012ffe0 0012fa50 0012fa08 kernel32!__except_handler3+0x0 (c:\src\boincsvn\branches\boinc_core_release_5_10\lib\diagnostics_win.c:2143) FPO: [3,0,7]
0012f96c 7c90378b 0012fa34 0012ffe0 0012fa50 0012fa08 ntdll!ExecuteHandler2@20+0x0 (c:\src\boincsvn\branches\boinc_core_release_5_10\lib\diagnostics_win.c:2143)
0012fa1c 7c90eafa 00000000 0012fa50 0012fa34 0012fa50 ntdll!ExecuteHandler@20+0x0 (c:\src\boincsvn\branches\boinc_core_release_5_10\lib\diagnostics_win.c:2143)
0012fa20 00000000 0012fa50 0012fa34 0012fa50 c0000005 ntdll!_KiUserExceptionDispatcher@8+0x0 (c:\src\boincsvn\branches\boinc_core_release_5_10\lib\diagnostics_win.c:2143) FPO: [2,0,0]

*** Dump of the thread (658): ***

- Information -
Status: Waiting, Wait Reason: EventPairLow, Kernel Time: 0.000000, User Time: 0.000000, Wait Time: 68217.000000

- Registers -
eax=71a5d5af ebx=c0000000 ecx=7c913288 edx=ffffffff esi=00000000 edi=71a87558
eip=7c90eb94 esp=01d1ff7c ebp=01d1ffb4
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00000202

- Callstack -
ChildEBP RetAddr Args to Child
01d1ff78 7c90e31b 71a5d609 00000168 01d1ffbc 01d1ffb0 ntdll!_KiFastSystemCallRet@0+0x0 FPO: [0,0,0]
01d1ff7c 71a5d609 00000168 01d1ffbc 01d1ffb0 01d1ffa4 ntdll!_ZwRemoveIoCompletion@20+0x0 FPO: [5,0,0]
01d1ffb4 7c80b683 71a5d8ec 0012f810 7c90ee18 0015e700 mswsock!_SockAsyncThread@4+0x0
01d1ffec 00000000 71a5d5af 0015e700 00000000 000000c8 kernel32!_BaseThreadStart@8+0x0


*** Debug Message Dump ****


*** Foreground Window Data ***
Window Name :
Window Class :
Window Process ID: 0
Window Thread ID : 0

Exiting...

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

Difficult to diagnose. Did the other thing work, though?

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Difficult to diagnose. Did the other thing work, though?

Nope. Same thing happens. It must be one of those files I copied over that is causing the problem.

At this point, I think I am going to have to just scrap all my WIP, do a fresh install, and fresh attach to all those projects (there were a bunch that aren't on BAM yet).

Thanks for the help.

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

hold on

Can you email me your client_state.xml file, please?
zip it up first.

elst93 at gmail dot com

(albeit it may be one of the account_*.xml files that's causing this, but I think I can always ask for them later.)

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I've seen similar misbehaviour as Zombie does. I'm a bit nicer to BOINC though, only running 2-5 projects per box. And with different GUI (boincview). Symptoms are the same: GUI momentarily shows everything and a moment later nothing.

What I did notice in such episode is that there are maaaany connections done from host that has GUI running to local BOINC client. Most of connections are in FIN_WAIT state. Probably has something to do with refresh interval being set to 10 seconds in GUI.

Restarting BOINC doesn't help, reboot does.

Windows XP or Windows 2003 server mostly.

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Metod ...

Difficult to diagnose. Did the other thing work, though?

Nope. Same thing happens. It must be one of those files I copied over that is causing the problem.

At this point, I think I am going to have to just scrap all my WIP, do a fresh install, and fresh attach to all those projects (there were a bunch that aren't on BAM yet).

Thanks for the help.

Have you tried installing 5.10.20?

Anyone in a similar situation , please look at this post and further.

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