console log

Sep 13 08:17:49 Golden-Chest-IV.local coreservicesd[40]: Application App:"BOINC Manager" [ 0x0/0xa00a]  @ 0x0x7fe624f04b60 tried to be brought forward, but isn't in fPermittedFrontASNs ( ( ASN:0x0-0x1001:) ), so denying.
Sep 13 08:17:49 Golden-Chest-IV.local WindowServer[113]: [cps/setfront] Failed setting the front application to BOINC Manager, psn 0x0-0xa00a, securitySessionID=0x186a5, err=-13066
Sep 13 08:17:49 Golden-Chest-IV.local boinc[338]: [CL_INVALID_OPERATION] : OpenCL Error : Failed to retrieve device information! Invalid enumerated value!
Sep 13 08:17:49 Golden-Chest-IV.local coreservicesd[40]: *** process 40 exceeded 500 log message per second limit  -  remaining messages this second discarded ***
Sep 13 08:17:49 Golden-Chest-IV.local WindowServer[113]: *** process 113 exceeded 500 log message per second limit  -  remaining messages this second discarded ***

hundreds of the above in the log.

stdoutdae.txt

13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.2.42 for x86_64-apple-darwin
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.26.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1e zlib/1.2.5 c-ares/1.9.1
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 680MX (driver version 8.16.78 310.40.00.20f04, device version OpenCL 1.1, 2048MB, 2048MB available, 92 GFLOPS peak)
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] OpenCL CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (OpenCL driver vendor: Apple, driver version 1.1, device version OpenCL 1.2)
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] app version refers to missing GPU type ATI
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [Einstein@Home] Application uses missing ATI GPU
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] app version refers to missing GPU type ATI
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [Einstein@Home] Application uses missing ATI GPU
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] app version refers to missing GPU type ATI
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [Einstein@Home] Application uses missing ATI GPU
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] app version refers to missing GPU type ATI
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [Einstein@Home] Application uses missing ATI GPU
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] app version refers to missing GPU type ATI
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [Einstein@Home] Application uses missing ATI GPU
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] Host name: Golden-Chest-IV.local
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9]
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clfsh ds acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pbe pni pclmulqdq dtes64 mon dscpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 tpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes pcid xsave osxsave tsctmr avx rdrand f16c
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] OS: Mac OS X 10.8.5 (Darwin 12.5.0)
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] Memory: 8.00 GB physical, 884.99 GB virtual
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] Disk: 1.01 TB total, 884.74 GB free
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] Local time is UTC -7 hours
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] VirtualBox version: 4.2.10
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [ABC@home] URL http://abcathome.com/; Computer ID not assigned yet; resource share 100
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [Asteroids@home] URL http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/; Computer ID 85965; resource share 100
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [ATLAS@home] URL http://atlasathome.cern.ch/; Computer ID 1732; resource share 50
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [rosetta@home] URL http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/; Computer ID 1758290; resource share 100
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [Collatz Conjecture] URL http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/; Computer ID 143383; resource share 100
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [fightmalaria@home] URL http://boinc.ucd.ie/fmah/; Computer ID not assigned yet; resource share 100
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [climateprediction.net] URL http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID 1325153; resource share 100
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [Einstein@Home] URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 11070426; resource share 600
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [VirtualLHC@home] URL http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/; Computer ID 71570; resource share 100
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [LHC@home 1.0] URL http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/; Computer ID 10323846; resource share 100
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [Milkyway@Home] URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 572119; resource share 100
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [pogs] URL http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/; Computer ID 33457; resource share 100
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [SETI@home] URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 7267259; resource share 0
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [SETI@home Beta Test] URL http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/; Computer ID 71371; resource share 100
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [Cosmology@Home] URL http://www.cosmologyathome.org/; Computer ID 219564; resource share 100
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [malariacontrol.net] URL http://www.malariacontrol.net/; Computer ID 813338; resource share 100
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [SETI@home] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 31-Aug-2014 10:37:08)
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [SETI@home] Host location: none
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [SETI@home] General prefs: using your defaults
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] Preferences:
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---]    max memory usage when active: 7372.80MB
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---]    max memory usage when idle: 8192.00MB
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---]    max disk usage: 517.73GB
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---]    (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
13-Sep-2014 08:17:49 [---] Not using a proxy
13-Sep-2014 08:17:50 Initialization completed
13-Sep-2014 08:17:50 [---] Running CPU benchmarks

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And your question is?
Look, we don't know what you did previous to you rebooting, so a little introduction as to what went before this would be nice.

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And your question is?
Look, we don't know what you did previous to you rebooting, so a little introduction as to what went before this would be nice.

Before? Normal use. Wasn't doing anything with BOINC outside letting it crunch.

Jord, it was a reboot. Not a stop/restart of BOINC, but the entire system. Can't say what random stuff was left in memory, but that would be an uninitialized variable in BOINC anyway.

Something went haywire when the system started BOINC. Look at the time stamp. It hadn't even started the science apps. Not sure what was going on, maybe some race condition. All I can add is when the system came up BOINC was the foreground job. It is set to launch at login, which obviously happened and set to have its window hidden, which didn't happen.

Haven't seen it before.

<ed>Just rebooted the same machine, no error messages in the system log. So I'd look for a race and/or an uninitialized variable. I know it will be hard if not impossible to track down.

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You posted two logs and nothing else. No introduction, no question, no explanation as to what you thought may or may not have happened, nothing.

For all we knew, you had been tinkering with the insides of the machine, or adding 17 different pieces of malicious software on purpose, or were trying to overload the PSU, or were checking if your monitor can do monochrome, or what happened if you crossed the red and the blue wire, or what happened if you poured a bottle of beer in the DVD player, or what weird errors you would get when you kept on pressing the reboot button just out of boredom, or...

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You posted two logs and nothing else. No introduction, no question, no explanation as to what you thought may or may not have happened, nothing.

For all we knew, you had been tinkering with the insides of the machine, or adding 17 different pieces of malicious software on purpose, or were trying to overload the PSU, or were checking if your monitor can do monochrome, or what happened if you crossed the red and the blue wire, or what happened if you poured a bottle of beer in the DVD player, or what weird errors you would get when you kept on pressing the reboot button just out of boredom, or...

Thought you knew me better than that Jord. As you asked, this model of Mac doesn't even have a DVD slot to pour beer into and yes, stock BOINC.

Anything about what happened is pure speculation anyway, which I guess you are soliciting. I do know that putting hundreds, actually over 1000+ identical error messages in the system log, something is wrong. At least I didn't have to click OK to go through them one at a time. If I had I might be in my car on the way to see DA to express my displeasure in person.

If this is the first report of this behavior, keep an eye peeled, and I'll keep an eye out to see if it might be wonky hardware. But, it you have had similar strangeness in the past, the bug is still present. Believe me if I could get it to fault repeatedly, I'd have given instructions.

Oh, since someone might ask

Golden-Chest-IV:~ garycharpentier$ ulimit -a
core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                      (-n) 256
pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 1
stack size              (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes              (-u) 709
virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited

Any other environment stuff you think they might want to see?

The only thing I ever noticed is on my Macs, have more than one but they aren't identical, I seem to frequently find VM jobs for ATLAS that indicate the VM is unmanageable, and go into wait state. Don't think this would be an issue when BOINC is initializing, before it starts the science apps, but I thought I'd toss that out.

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