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BOINC crashing but SETI@home still running
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Bakareth Send message Joined: 31 Aug 01 Posts: 44 Credit: 7,619,743 RAC: 0 |
The title says it all... Installed BOINC yesterday and it ran fine. Today however BOINC crashes (at least it disappears and icon disappears from system tray) 3-4sec after I open it but by the task manager SETI@home 3.08 continues running. Any ideas?? EDIT: oh yeah, I'm using windows XP SP-1... that bit's probably important:) Thanks, Robert |
Angstrom Send message Joined: 20 Sep 99 Posts: 205 Credit: 10,131 RAC: 0 |
Robert If you are using proxy authentication on your setup then there is a known issue with uploading of work units. Download should be OK but the client will crash every time it attempts to upload. Some details are here; http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=1141 As a very tempory fix you can usually just get enough time to suspend network activity when you restart BOINC. This allows you to carry on processing without the client crashing. A good work around is to install a piece of software to handle the authentication. Sven has provided a very detailed guide to doing this at; http://www.osiris-network.de/seti/ I have tried this work around and it is very quick easy and more to the point it works! If your not using proxy authentication then.....................over to somebody else. Hope this helps Neil |
Bakareth Send message Joined: 31 Aug 01 Posts: 44 Credit: 7,619,743 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for that... I am using proxy auth as it turns out. With the old SETI@home I used proxomitron so maybe that would work?? well I'll give it a go anyway. Thanks again. Robert EDIT: just tried proxomitron and it's now working fine. When I saw the proxy authorisation options in BOINC I was hoping I would no longer have to do this... ah well, can't have everything I suppose |
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