Hi All,

I'm using BOINC 7.6.34 on macOS Sierra (10.12.4). Every time I come back when the screensaver/BOINC has kicked in, my mac freezes and I have to hit the power button. I'm stopping BOINC (alas) until I can understand how to stop making it freeze and not wake. Anyone else seeing this?

I'm using SETI@Home.

I tried reducing CPU used to 90%, turning on/off suspend while active, but it locks every time.

Thanks for any advice,
Rob

You should be able to disable the screen saver, as it isn't necessary to run to do the science. See http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/BOINC_screensaver#Disabling_screen_saver for how to do so.

I have forwarded this to the developer in question, but do mind that he's on vacation until the start of May.

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I'm seeing the same error.
I have Sierra 10.12.5. It actually happens without any screen saver. I was just running the application by itself while using the laptop and it would repeatably either freeze (and require power cycle) or just crash and reboot.

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Can you check the Console app (in /Applications/Utilities)? Do you see any boinc related errors?

Sjmielh

How should it look like? Nothing BOINC in the name.

Do you see something of screensaver. To be clear you first need to open boinc and then the Console

Sjmielh

Sorry, it seems that updating a Docker, which was sometimes running in parallel, resolved the problem.