Posts by Richard

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Sudden stoppage of BOINC on Mac (Message 33950)
Posted 25 Jul 2010 by Richard
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Thanks for the confirmation that something was going wrong inside BOINC and it wasn't me or mu computer ! No, I had no access to the manager at all, it was not up on screen long enough and it had not transferred access to the user anyway before it crashed. Since I wanted to get back to crunching data, I did end up uninstalling the BOINC software, renaming the data section folder ('cause at the time I thought I might be able to fix something and get back in and continue later), and then reinstalled BOINC and it all worked fine. I then found out that BOINC can be too smart, 'cause of course it still instantly dumped all my old workunits, so I can't go back and restart the old ones in the end. Unless it does this same thing again, I will let bygones be bygones and not try to figure out which data files were causing it to crash. Thanks for the comments submitted !

Cheers
Richard
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Sudden stoppage of BOINC on Mac (Message 33910)
Posted 23 Jul 2010 by Richard
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Further info ... after my most recent attempt to start BOINC manager, the dump from the stdoutdae.txt file is as follows :


22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for x86_64-apple-darwin
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 c-ares/1.6.0
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5472 @ 3.00GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6]
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] 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 EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM SSE4.1
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] OS: Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Darwin 10.4.0)
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] Memory: 16.00 GB physical, 408.58 GB virtual
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] Disk: 465.44 GB total, 408.33 GB free
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] Local time is UTC -7 hours
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] No usable GPUs found
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [rosetta@home] URL http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/; Computer ID 1128782; resource share 100
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [Einstein@Home] URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 1244594; resource share 100
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [SETI@home] URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 4640410; resource share 100
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [SETI@home] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 14-Aug-2009 11:40:30)
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [SETI@home] Computer location: work
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] General prefs: using separate prefs for work
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] Reading preferences override file
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] Preferences:
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] max memory usage when active: 16384.00MB
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] max memory usage when idle: 16384.00MB
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] max disk usage: 100.00GB
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] Not using a proxy
Initialization completed
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [---] Suspending computation - running CPU benchmarks
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [Einstein@Home] Started download of h1_1151.10_S5R4
22-Jul-2010 21:23:18 [Einstein@Home] Started download of h1_1151.10_S5R7
22-Jul-2010 21:23:20 [---] Exit requested by user
22-Jul-2010 21:23:20 [---] [error] Deleting file h1_1151.10_S5R4 while in use
22-Jul-2010 21:23:20 [---] [error] Deleting file h1_1151.10_S5R7 while in use
22-Jul-2010 21:23:20 [---] [error] Deleting file l1_1151.10_S5R4 while in use
22-Jul-2010 21:23:20 [---] [error] Deleting file l1_1151.10_S5R7 while in use

it is saying 'Exit requested by user" which of course I did not, but there are errors in trying to delete some files ..... is there something I can delete manually before I try starting BOINC that will stop it doing this ?

Just askin' is all ....

Cheers
Richard
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Sudden stoppage of BOINC on Mac (Message 33907)
Posted 23 Jul 2010 by Richard
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I have been running 6.10.43 on a Mac for many weeks now, probably over three months (before that, other versions for a couple of years, on this very computer). All that time, no problems except when I tried to get a GPU card to work, eventually solved that (beginning of April). All of a sudden as of the day before yesterday, BOINC has stopped working completely. As far as I can tell, the client itself is not running. BOINC Manager tries to start, but quits after a few seconds (maybe just because the client isn't running ?). I tried installing the latest 6.10.58, no luck. I tried to revert back to .36, but also no luck. Uninstalled using the software provided in the BOINC download package, and rebooted and then reinstalled with no luck. Then tried .43 again, and .58 again, no luck. Just to confirm to those reading this, I rebooted between each try, even though reboots in the past never seemed to be necessary when upgrading BOINC. Tried disconnecting the GPU card, but this did not make any difference. Not sure what else to try at this point. All other programs I have seem to run fine, so I don't think it is a hardware issue. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Cheers
Richard
4) Message boards : BOINC client : Leopard (Message 13620)
Posted 6 Nov 2007 by Richard
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I just upgraded to Leopard on a dual core Mac Mini. I was running a slightly older version of BOINC at the time (I am not in front of that computer now and cannot recall which exact version it was but I think it was 5.8.17).... it started a bit funny after loading the new OS, in a 'simple' screen mode I had not seen before, but eventually I found the menu item to get back into full detailed mode. A couple of days later I upgraded to the most recent stable version, 5.10.28 I think it is. Now when the computer reboots, BOINC seems to start, the BOINC Manager window flashes on the screen for just a moment but then disappears and I cannot get it back. Nothing seems to work. As far as I can tell, work is being continued to be run, but nothing can be viewed.

Has anyone else seen this problem ? Thanks.

Richard



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