Posts by Craig Dudley

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC issue with MacPro Late 2013 GPU AMD FirePro D700 (2) (Message 102091) Posted 11 Dec 2020 by Craig Dudley Post: Well, after getting frustrated with the frequent crashes (windowserver timeout) I gave up and didn't run BOINC either manually or at login. And I still crashed with same problem. So whatever is causing it is somewhere else other than BOINC or any of it's projects. Will continue tracking it down. Thanks for all your help. -- Craig Dudley
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC Manager pop-up: Communicating with client, please wait -- Temporary Hang (Message 64402) Posted 21 Sep 2015 by Craig Dudley Post: Just installed BOINC 7.6.11 on Mac OS X 10.10.5 and I am receiving the pop-up "Communicating with BOINC client. Please wait ..." with a Quit BOINC Manager button and a Cancel button. It hangs there for at least an hour before I gave up on it. When I click the Cancel button, the pop-up goes away for a few seconds then reappears. When I click on the Quit BOINC Manager it does in fact quits. This problem occurs on a Standard account. This problem does NOT occur on an Admin account only if the system has just been re-booted and Admin account is the 1st to log in. BOINC 7.6.11 was installed in an Admin account. What are the causes for this pop-up? How do I get around this issue? -- Craig
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 6.10.43 (Message 32334) Posted 23 Apr 2010 by Craig Dudley Post: Hi Charlie, Here is the output: Last login: Thu Apr 22 22:21:47 on console Craigs-Mac-Pro:~ admin$ ls -al /users total 0 drwxr-xr-x 9 root admin 306 Oct 12 2009 . drwxrwxr-t@ 43 root admin 1530 Mar 29 15:37 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 1 2009 .localized drwxrwxrwt 9 root wheel 306 Oct 12 2009 Shared drwxr-xr-x+ 18 admin staff 612 Oct 12 2009 admin drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 Nov 15 2007 ftp drwxr-xr-x+ 13 ppepin ppepin 442 Jun 25 2008 ppepin drwxr-xr-x 12 sacsitest staff 408 May 5 2008 sacsitest drwxr-xr-x+ 46 snaguru snaguru 1564 Mar 2 10:06 snaguru Craigs-Mac-Pro:~ admin$ I am out of town so this response was delayed. Thanks Craig Dudley
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 6.10.43 (Message 32286) Posted 19 Apr 2010 by Craig Dudley Post: Hi Charlie, I posted the output of the commands you requested from a system where I don't have the problem. Here is the output of the commands from the system I am having the problem: Last login: Mon Apr 19 10:47:23 on console Craigs-Mac-Pro:~ admin$ dscl . -read groups/boinc_master AppleMetaNodeLocation: /Local/Default GeneratedUID: 991FB093-F3AC-44CE-BF3E-044EDE9EA8DE GroupMembership: snaguru admin PrimaryGroupID: 31 RecordName: boinc_master RecordType: dsRecTypeNative:groups Craigs-Mac-Pro:~ admin$ dscl . -read groups/boinc_project AppleMetaNodeLocation: /Local/Default GeneratedUID: 812EB793-8AEF-4F12-B63E-6D2C31D0458F GroupMembership: admin PrimaryGroupID: 32 RecordName: boinc_project RecordType: dsRecTypeNative:groups Craigs-Mac-Pro:~ admin$ ls -al "/Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects" total 0 drwxrwx--- 3 boinc_master boinc_project 102 Apr 4 2007 . drwxrwx--x 37 boinc_master boinc_master 1258 Apr 16 12:32 .. drwxrwxr-x 17 boinc_master boinc_project 578 Apr 16 12:32 setiathome.berkeley.edu Craigs-Mac-Pro:~ admin$ ls -alR "/Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects" total 0 drwxrwx--- 3 boinc_master boinc_project 102 Apr 4 2007 . drwxrwx--x 37 boinc_master boinc_master 1258 Apr 16 12:32 .. drwxrwxr-x 17 boinc_master boinc_project 578 Apr 16 12:32 setiathome.berkeley.edu /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu: total 4936 drwxrwxr-x 17 boinc_master boinc_project 578 Apr 16 12:32 . drwxrwx--- 3 boinc_master boinc_project 102 Apr 4 2007 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 boinc_master boinc_project 52779 Apr 4 2007 arecibo_181.png -rw-rw-r-- 1 boinc_master boinc_project 2536 Apr 4 2007 sah_40.png -rw-rw-r-- 1 boinc_master boinc_project 25488 Apr 4 2007 sah_banner_290.png -rw-rw-r-- 1 boinc_master boinc_project 35399 Apr 4 2007 sah_ss_290.png -rw-rw-r-- 1 boinc_master boinc_project 9068 Aug 21 2008 seti_603.jpg -rw-rw-r-- 1 boinc_master boinc_project 751 Aug 21 2008 setiathome-6.03_AUTHORS -rw-rw-r-- 1 boinc_master boinc_project 17992 Aug 21 2008 setiathome-6.03_COPYING -rw-rw-r-- 1 boinc_master boinc_project 1990 Aug 21 2008 setiathome-6.03_COPYRIGHT -rw-rw-r-- 1 boinc_master boinc_project 2020 Aug 21 2008 setiathome-6.03_README -rwxrwxr-x@ 1 boinc_master boinc_project 1941400 Aug 26 2008 setiathome_6.03_i686-apple-darwin -rwxrwxr-x 1 boinc_master boinc_project 360824 Aug 26 2008 setigraphics_6.03_i686-apple-darwin -rw-rw---- 1 boinc_master boinc_project 71 Apr 16 12:32 slideshow_setiathome_enhanced_00 -rw-rw---- 1 boinc_master boinc_project 72 Apr 16 12:32 slideshow_setiathome_enhanced_01 -rw-rw---- 1 boinc_master boinc_project 75 Apr 16 12:32 slideshow_setiathome_enhanced_02 -rw-rw---- 1 boinc_master boinc_project 67 Apr 16 12:32 stat_icon Craigs-Mac-Pro:~ admin$ sudo /Downloads/AddRemoveUser -a snaguru Password: Craigs-Mac-Pro:~ admin$ I did re-download AddRemoveUser and ran it. This seemed to clear up the problem and now my non-admin user can run BOINC Manager. Thanks for your help. Craig Dudley
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 6.10.43 (Message 32231) Posted 17 Apr 2010 by Craig Dudley Post: Hi Charlie, Here is the output: Last login: Fri Apr 16 21:50:59 on ttys000 Craigs-Mac-Pro-Home:~ admin$ dscl . -read groups/boinc_master AppleMetaNodeLocation: /Local/Default GroupMembership: admin snaguru testsacsi PrimaryGroupID: 31 RecordName: boinc_master RecordType: dsRecTypeNative:groups Craigs-Mac-Pro-Home:~ admin$ dscl . -read groups/boinc_project AppleMetaNodeLocation: /Local/Default GroupMembership: admin snaguru testsacsi PrimaryGroupID: 32 RecordName: boinc_project RecordType: dsRecTypeNative:groups Craigs-Mac-Pro-Home:~ admin$ ls -al "/Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects" total 0 drwxrwx--- 4 boinc_master boinc_project 136 Feb 22 12:18 . drwxrwx--x 42 boinc_master boinc_master 1428 Apr 16 21:49 .. drwxrwxr-x 52 boinc_master boinc_project 1768 Apr 16 21:27 milkyway.cs.rpi.edu_milkyway drwxrwxr-x 29 boinc_master boinc_project 986 Apr 16 21:17 setiathome.berkeley.edu Craigs-Mac-Pro-Home:~ admin$ I hope this helps. Thanks Craig Dudley
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 6.10.43 (Message 32223) Posted 16 Apr 2010 by Craig Dudley Post: Hi Charlie, I uninstalled BOINC, rebooted, and installed BOINC again. I did click Yes in the 1st popup about letting non-administrative users run BOINC and No for the screen saver question. I did download the AddRemoveUser and run it. But I noticed even though the .zip file was dated 22 March, 2010 (as you indicated), the AddRemoveUser program inside the .zip file was dated 10 November, 2009. Is that correct? But I still have the same problem with my non-administrative user trying to run BOINC. Any other ideas? Thanks Craig Dudley
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 6.10.43 (Message 32172) Posted 13 Apr 2010 by Craig Dudley Post: Hi, Just installed this new release on Mac OS X 10.6.3 using my admin account. I then ran AddRemoveUser in Terminal to add my non-admin user to BOINC list of users allowed to run BOINC mManager. When I move over to my non-admin account, I get a popup box indicating "BOINC ownership or permissions; please reinstall BOINC. (Error code -1200)" with an OK button. Click the OK and BOINC manager goes away. I reboot. Reinstall BOINC 6.10.43 answering the resulting pop boxes the same (yes for non-admin accounts, no for screen saver) and reboot again. Log into my non-admin account again and get the same popup box when BOINC manager starts out of my Login Items. Any ideas of how to resolve this problem. Thanks Craig Dudley
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problems with BOINC 6.10.17 on Mac OS X 10.6.1 (Message 28699) Posted 12 Nov 2009 by Craig Dudley Post: I didn't see any other indication that the installer had a problem other than it didn't start when double clicked. Sorry, I'm a bit unclear here: what didn't start when double-clicked? Are you saying BOINC wouldn't run, or that the installer wouldn't start? I didn't see any mention of that in your earlier posts. ***What didn't start was BOINC Installer* Every user can always to launch BOINC. The only difference if a particular user is not authorized to run BOINC is that BOINC will display a message saying that user is not authorized and then quit. I installed Mac OS X 10.6.2 and then installed BOINC 6.10.17 and answered Yes to the non-administrative user question.. Then I downloaded AddRemoveUser and ran it on a Terminal command line and did not have a crash. So maybe something got fixed in 10.6.2. I'm a bit puzzled. Why did you also run AddRemoveUser? Answering Yes to the installer question should have been enough to allow all users to run BOINC. Did you try running BOINC after installing and found that had not worked? *I thought you need to run AddRemoveUser to add the specific users ids of those non-administrative users allowed to run BOINC Manager. I didn't know answering Yes to the installer question was the only step needed for non-administrative users to run BOINC Manager.*** [/quote]
9) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problems with BOINC 6.10.17 on Mac OS X 10.6.1 (Message 28644) Posted 10 Nov 2009 by Craig Dudley Post: Hi, As I said in my Subject line, I am running 10.6.1 and as such, running on a quad processor Intel Mac Pro. I didn't see any other indication that the installer had a problem other than it didn't start when double clicked. When I originally installed BOINC 6.10.17, I diod answer Yes to the question of allowing non-administrative users to run and control BOINC. Now not to completely screw things up, on another system I installed Mac OS X 10.6.2 and then installed BOINC 6.10.17 and answered Yes to the non-administrative user question.. Then I downloaded AddRemoveUser and ran it on a Terminal command line and did not have a crash. So maybe something got fixed in 10.6.2. Where do you want me to send the crash report? Thanks Craig Dudley
10) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problems with BOINC 6.10.17 on Mac OS X 10.6.1 (Message 28606) Posted 9 Nov 2009 by Craig Dudley Post: Hi, Well, it looks like the AddRemoveUser command line tool actually worked because my standard, non-privledged account now can run BOINC without a popup window stating I need to contact my BOINC Administrator to add my user id to the list of authorized users for running BOINC. So I guess I am down to the Installer "Exited with Code: 246" problem. Craig Dudley
11) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problems with BOINC 6.10.17 on Mac OS X 10.6.1 (Message 28605) Posted 9 Nov 2009 by Craig Dudley Post: Hi, From my administrative user id I was trying to use AddRemoveUser command line tool to allow a non-privledged user to run BOINC. The tool crashed with a EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS) exception type (crash report provided upon request). So I tried reinstalling BOINC 6.10.17 and am now getting the following Console message: 11/9/09 3:00:56 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[181] ([0x0-0x18018].edu.berkeley.boinc.Installer[238]) Exited with exit code: 246 So now I can only run BOINC Manager on my administrator user id, which is not my non-privledged standard user id where I normally work. Can someone tell me how to get out of this Catch 22 circle so I can allow my non-administrative (ie standard Mac OS X account) user id run BOINC? Thanks Craig Dudley
12) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC does show Running CPU benchmarks message (Message 28419) Posted 31 Oct 2009 by Craig Dudley Post: 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
13) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC does show Running CPU benchmarks message (Message 28388) Posted 30 Oct 2009 by Craig Dudley Post: 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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