BOINC: Need a little help

[Smoke]

I am having a problem where the BOINC Manager "tab" shows in the tray of almost all of my Windoz machines after they are re-booted? If I click "restore" on the tab the BOINC MANAGER opens up but is completely empty? There is a BOINC icon showing up in the startup tray (next to the clock) and BOINC is running.

I have found the only way to remove the "empty" BOINC MANAGER is to right-click on the BOINC icon in the start-up tray and select "Open BOINC Manager...". This opens and seems to replace the empty BOINC Manager and then, when I close it, the BOINC MANAGER disappears and only the BOINC icon is in the start-up tray (as it should be).

BTW, I have not installed BOINC as a service. I have selected the option to run BOINC "always" and during the install process I selected to run "no matter who is logged on to the computer" (forgot the actual phase).

I had this happen again, just last night, on a machine that I had to completely format "c" and do a new installation of windows xp.

Have any of you had a similar experience?

How can I fix this?

 

[TAandy]

I've had it happen to me a few times, and as you point out, the only way I could get it to close was by opening Boinc manager and then closing it again.
Since I only have 2 pc's it's not really a problem for me so I haven't done any checking for a fix (yet).

 

[Freewolf]

Does it all the time on the machine I have it on

 

[Rattledagger]

Well, is always running BOINC as service, and is always manually starting BOINC Manager if wants to check on something...

... so not sure what your problem is...


Anyway, it can take 5 seconds for a tab to update...

It is possible another program was using the port BOINC is using and therefore interfered with connection to Manager, or blocked by firewall... But if so, it shouldn't be fixed by choosing "Opening BOINC Manager"...

 

[TAandy]

I did a quick search on google and it seems to be quite a common problem and seems to have been for a few versions now.
Unfortunately, there doesn't sem to be a fix as yet

 

[Insidious]

I've got v5.2.7 and haven't seen it yet. (only running a couple days)

might want to check your present version

-Sid

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: Insidious
I've got v5.2.7 and haven't seen it yet. (only running a couple days)

might want to check your present version

-Sid

I've noticed it in at least the past 2 versions, 5.2.7 and 5.2.6

 

[TAandy]

Came across this on the Rosetta forum;

"I'm assuming you're talking about Windows OS.

Instead of reinstalling, you could do this:

The icon in the task bar, is the boincmgr.exe. Instead of running boincmgr.exe to start the boinc client, use boinc.exe.

Specifically, run the command 'boinc.exe -redirectio' in a cmd window (the redirectio flag uses log files for stdout, and stderr, and then you can close the cmd windows that pops up)

This will start the boinc client without the boincmgr. Then you can boincmgr or boincview to monitor your boinc client."

Don't know if it's of any use

 

[Insidious]

I have no idea what is different about my setup. (It's probably just one of those M$ things )

But for what it's worth: (WinXP sp2)

I originally installed v 4.4.5 and did an uninstall (because I didn't know any better) when I upgraded to the v 5.2.7

I looked in my msconfig (startup tab) and I see it is starting using:

C:\Progra~1\BOINC\boincmgr.exe /s

When I reboot, I get a blank Boinc Manager window for a moment then it disappears. Nothing left except the icon in the system tray (by the clock)

-Sid

PS: What is Boincview ?

 

[TAandy]

Quite a handy program
Basically, a monitoring program for Boinc
You can get it here
You will need the password found in the gui_rpc_auth.cfg file in your Boinc folder for each machine you want to monitor

 

[Pokey]

Sorry, but I'm not having that problem. But I'm still running V4.45.................

I'm not always the first to try a new version..............

But them again sometimes I am..................I'll be on the lookout for that issue when I update.