Hi,
I have just used Mac OS X 10.6.1 Migration Assistant to transfer user information (including BOINC 6.6.36) from one laptop to another.
BTW, 6.6.36 on 10.6.1 runs fine.

When trying to run BOINC (SETI@home project) on new laptop, received a message to reinstall, which I did. Ran BOINC again & got prompted to enter an administrator user id and password so BOINC could make changes, which I did.

At this point, when started BOINC shows the following start up messages:
***********Bengin start up messages************
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 Starting BOINC client version 6.10.17 for x86_64-apple-darwin
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 c-ares/1.6.0
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9600 @ 2.80GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 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 SSE3 MON DSCPL VMX SMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM SSE4.1
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 OS: Darwin: 10.0.0
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 285.04 GB virtual
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 Disk: 465.32 GB total, 284.79 GB free
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 Local time is UTC -4 hours
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 No usable GPUs found
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 Not using a proxy
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 SETI@home URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 5152394; resource share 100
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 SETI@home General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 06-Nov-2007 10:57:17)
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 SETI@home Computer location: home
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 SETI@home General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 Reading preferences override file
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2048.00MB
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3686.40MB
Fri Oct 30 09:16:54 2009 Preferences limit disk usage to 10.00GB
********End of start up messages************

The problem I am seeing is that the "Running CPU benchmarks" message is missing and never shows up.
I suspect something wasn't copied correctly when I migrated the user (a standard account)
from the old laptop to the new laptop. Or there is some CPU signature BOINC creates for
the old laptop that doesn't match the new laptop.

I tried downloading 6.10.17 to see if that made a difference but it didn't.

Any ideas on how to get my SETI@home & BOINC to start "computing" again?

Thanks

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'Running benchmarks' and 'Starting computing' are two different functions.

Because you've stayed with the same version of BOINC (there's no message about a version change in your log), BOINC is happy to continue with the benchmark results from last time. You can leave it like that until the next time benchmarks are scheduled to be run (which will be within the next five days), or you can request a manual run from the 'Advanced' menu in BOINC Manager. Either way, it'll make no difference to whether computing starts.

The only project you're attached to is SETI@home. Could it be something as simple as making the move at a time when SETI is very low on available work? - the Arecibo telescope is undergoing maintenance, and it's taken longer then expected to get alternative data back from SETI's off-site archive. BOINC could have asked for new work, failed to get any, and backed off its server requests to save hammering the project servers.

Look at the 'Projects' tab in BOINC Manager. Select SETI, and click the 'Properties' button. If communication is backed off, try updating the project - new work is available, but not much of it, and it may take a few attempts before you strike lucky.

Hi Richard,
Looking at my other machines, BOINC SETI@home is executing previously requested tasks.
So you are probably correct. I tried updating SETI@home project and got a message
indicating the "Project has no jobs available".
So I will be patient.
Thanks