Posts by Cleaner10

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinc.exe starting problem (Message 28236) Posted 22 Oct 2009 by Cleaner10 Post: Ok, well, here's an update on this problem. Since these are servers that are having the problems I haven't been able to reboot them. I was looking at the BOINC logs and all of the servers having the problems appeared to develop the problem sometime on October 13th, the same day that Microsoft released all their updates. I had kind of discounted the Windows Updates as the problem because 3 of the servers having the problem hadn't even had the updates installed yet. They were simply showing as updates that needed to be installed. Last night I got the opportunity to install these updates and restart the servers. It appears to have fixed the problem. I guess maybe because Windows was waiting for the updates to be installed was enough to stop BOINC from working properly? Anyway, yes, I installed the updates on the 3 servers that didn't have them installed yet, including the one that I upgraded to BOINC 6.10.15, restarted them and they are all happily chugging away now. The only one that doesn't fit is the 4th server that I had already installed the updates on and restarted but was still having an issue with BOINC. I restarted it again last night and now it is working too. Who knows...??? Thanks for the help Ageless. I have no idea what could have caused this other than the Windows Updates simply waiting to install. It must be related because of the date all of this started.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinc.exe starting problem (Message 28210) Posted 21 Oct 2009 by Cleaner10 Post: I am not running any firewall software on this server. It almost seems like boinc.exe is getting hung up trying to do something right before it kicks off the tasks. I can see in the Security log that the boinc_project user is getting logged in so it's not that account. Any other ideas? I'm kind of at a loss here.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinc.exe starting problem (Message 28162) Posted 20 Oct 2009 by Cleaner10 Post: I changed the registry entry as you described and then started BOINC Manager. Still no luck, had the same result. Boinc.exe is running but BOINC Manager just says "Communicating with BOINC client..." As for projects, I have 8 projects and the folder with the most files only has 257 files in it and that's World Community Grid. The project with the 2nd most files in it is Rosetta with 76 files. All 8 of the project folders total about 315MB of data.
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinc.exe starting problem (Message 28160) Posted 20 Oct 2009 by Cleaner10 Post: Ok, the boinc.exe process is still running. The BOINC Manager won't connect to it so I can't see what tasks are running. I don't believe any tasks are running because there are no processes running under the boinc_project username. If I kill the boinc.exe process and close the BOINC Manager, then restart the BOINC Manager and try to look at the tasks really fast I still can't see anything before it says "Communicating with BOINC client. Please wait...". The last lines in the stdoutdae.txt file are: 20-Oct-2009 12:53:34 [---] General prefs: using your defaults 20-Oct-2009 12:53:34 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1023.73MB 20-Oct-2009 12:53:34 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1535.60MB 20-Oct-2009 12:53:34 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 2.00GB 20-Oct-2009 12:53:35 [---] Suspending network activity - time of day Both stderrdae.txt and stderrgui.txt are empty. They are zero length files. I'm not sure how to check how much work is cached on this machine but the SLOTS folder is completely empty.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinc.exe starting problem (Message 28155) Posted 20 Oct 2009 by Cleaner10 Post: I'll try to get to this as soon as I can but work is getting in the way. :)
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinc.exe starting problem (Message 28144) Posted 20 Oct 2009 by Cleaner10 Post: Ok, I just installed client 6.10.15 on one of the servers. This server was having the original problem described of boinc.exe running at 100% CPU time and the BOINC Manager not able to communicate with it. It never launches any tasks. Right after installing the update, I started the BOINC Manager and it connected to boinc.exe long enough for me to see some messages. It had the message about the version change (6.6.36 -> 6.10.15) and ran CPU benchmarks. Then as soon as it was finished with the CPU benchmarks the BOINC Manager lost communication with boinc.exe even though it is still running.
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinc.exe starting problem (Message 28137) Posted 20 Oct 2009 by Cleaner10 Post: I looked at stderrdae.txt on one of the servers and the only information in there that seems relevant is: * Dump of thread ID 7800 (state: Waiting): * - Information - Status: Wait Reason: UserRequest, , Kernel Time: 937500.000000, User Time: 781250.000000, Wait Time: 4852726.000000 - Unhandled Exception Record - Reason: Access Violation (0xc0000005) at address 0x004350ED read attempt to address 0x00001CF0 This particular server is running 6.6.38 actually and has an interesting twist that might shed some light on this problem. I have my clients set to only do network communication at night. Boinc appears to run normally when I start it this morning until I tell it to do any network activity. Then boinc.exe immediately crashes. The vista machine that developed the problem last night was running 6.6.38 but I installed the beta client 6.10.15 and it seemed to fix the problem. At least it was still running when I checked it this morning. Both of these machines have had the latest round of Windows Updates installed. I can try to install the client 6.10.15 on one of the servers that hasn't been rebooted yet and hasn't had the Windows Updates installed yet and report back what happens.
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinc.exe starting problem (Message 28133) Posted 20 Oct 2009 by Cleaner10 Post: I thought that the Microsoft Updates might have had something to do with it but I've been able to reboot one of the servers and it still has the same problem. Also, as of last night, the problem showed up on a Vista machine. It was a little different in that boinc.exe was actually starting and then crashing after about 5 seconds though.
9) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinc.exe starting problem (Message 28117) Posted 19 Oct 2009 by Cleaner10 Post: I've got 4 computers that recently developed a problem that I can't figure out. It's also difficult to describe so please bear with me. They all seem to having a similar problem but I'll focus on one for now. It's a server running Windows Server 2003 and client version 6.6.36, running as a service. It was working fine but as of about a week ago, when I start BOINC Manager it says "Communicating with BOINC client. Please wait..." and never actually connects. I look at the processes that are running and I can see boinc.exe running under the user name boinc_master and it is using 100% of the CPU time. If I stop and restart the BOINC service, the same thing happens. The boinc.exe process starts and uses 100% of the CPU time and I can't connect with the BOINC manager. Any ideas? Keep in mind that this is happening on 4 computers and all started having the problem around the same time.
10) Message boards : Questions and problems : Resource Share resetting? (Message 25900) Posted 6 Jul 2009 by Cleaner10 Post: Don't do what? I changed the settings on BAM as your link instructs and then simply checked the projects website to make sure the setting got pushed through by BAM. Also, I had to manually change the Resource Share for World Community Grid since it does not allow BAM to change it. The bottom line is that the projects resources get set correctly with one update from the project and then seemingly get changed back to 100 at some later time.
11) Message boards : Questions and problems : Resource Share resetting? (Message 25890) Posted 4 Jul 2009 by Cleaner10 Post: I do use BAM as an account manager and I have set the resource share there and also checked them on each projects individual website to make sure it is set correctly on there too.
12) Message boards : Questions and problems : Resource Share resetting? (Message 25888) Posted 4 Jul 2009 by Cleaner10 Post: I'm running BOINC 6.6.36 with 7 projects. I've set Resource Share numbers according to how much time I want each project to get. BOINC Manager will show the correct Resource Share numbers on the Projects tab after an update of each project. When I check the BOINC Manager a couple of days later, all the Resource Shares are back to 100. If I close BOINC Manager and shut down all processes, then restart the Manager and update all projects, the Resource Shares will go back to the correct numbers. I check again later, and they are back to 100. Any ideas?

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