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Message 44744 - Posted: 5 Jul 2012, 0:14:54 UTC
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I upgraded BOINC and most of the software on my entire deployment today.

Everything was going fine until I tried to add a project!

This only happens on one machine. I try to open the add project dialog, click next, and BOINC freezes and quits.

XP Pro 32-bit
P4 520 @ 3,0GHz
GTX 460 OC

System and runtimes and drivers are fully up-to-date. Previously this one was running 6,12,34 perfectly fine, but I decided to upgrade. I understand there is no way to easily downgrade, or I would (if that would even solve this)

I did see another thread in here about problems on XP 32-bit, but I have not encountered any. It runs perfectly fine, but I cannot add any new projects!

Something I did wrong? Or what?

If it counts for anything, I have a machine running 32-bit Win7 Enterprise x86 and 7,0,28 with no issues whatsoever. Granted it is brand new and the P4 machine is definitely not.


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Message 44745 - Posted: 5 Jul 2012, 1:03:07 UTC - in response to Message 44744.  

I understand there is no way to easily downgrade, or I would (if that would even solve this)

All you do is set No new tasks, run your cache down to empty, next exit BOINC completely, then uninstall it through Add/Remove Programs. Now before you reinstall 6.12.x, navigate to your BOINC Data directory and remove both client_state.xml and client_state_prev.xml, then reinstall 6.12 and let it start.

Is all.
default place for the data directory under Windows 2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC\ .. this directory may be hidden, so either put the path to it directly into Windows Explorer, or instruct Windows Explorer to show hidden files and folders.

BOINC crashes are caught in stderrdae.txt in the data directory. Please, do not post the complete contents of that file here. That's overkill.
And else there'll be information in the Windows Event Viewer.
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Message 44755 - Posted: 5 Jul 2012, 15:00:49 UTC

Please, do not post the complete contents of that file here. That's overkill.


I wouldn't dare. It's a bunch of gibberish anyway. Absolutely nothing helpful. It's barely readable, but from what I see, nothing in the file points to the crash when trying to add a project!

I may just try downgrading again, yeah. Thanks for the tip!

I assume that since you advice is to downgrade that you have no idea what causes this crash? Odd, isn't it.


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Message 44756 - Posted: 5 Jul 2012, 15:09:37 UTC - in response to Message 44755.  

I assume that since you advice is to downgrade that you have no idea what causes this crash? Odd, isn't it.

Well, I pointed out how to downgrade, as you assumed it would be a difficult thing, when it isn't.

There's also nothing in this world that dictates that you should run the latest BOINC, or run BOINC with its own BOINC Manager, or run BOINC Manager at all. BOINC --the client-- can run perfectly fine on its own, after which you give commands to it through command line, with the boinccmd tool. Or you use Fred's BOINCTasks as an alternative BOINC Manager.

No, I don't know what causes the crash without seeing an error message.
Please check stderrgui.txt and Windows Event Viewer as well. Perhaps that there's a clue there, an error message, some inkling.
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Message 44757 - Posted: 5 Jul 2012, 16:04:28 UTC

Nah you're right, I read too much into it. It's not really a big deal.

I haven't used BOINCTasks in quite some time. I'll check it out!

Or, yeah, add the project through command line.

Thanks for the advice. I guess I'll blame the computer on this one, since it's clearly not BOINC's problem. 7,0,28 has been perfectly stable for me everywhere else.

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Message 44758 - Posted: 5 Jul 2012, 16:29:42 UTC - in response to Message 44757.  

LOl, attaboy. :-)
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