BOINC and The Spinning Beach Ball of Death

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Message 169984 - Posted: 20 Sep 2005, 14:38:42 UTC

Everytime I try to run BOINC Manager on my Mac (10.4.2, 700 MHz, 768 MB RAM) I get the spinning beach ball of death. It just spins and spins and spins. In fact, I have to Force Quit the application everytime I try to run it. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the BOINC Manager twice now, with no results.

Am I failing to notice extra files? Is there a walkthrough for uninstalling BOINC Manager that I'm not aware of?
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Message 169989 - Posted: 20 Sep 2005, 14:51:43 UTC

Are you talking about machine 1376373? It has been chugging along quite nicely, and just finished it's last WU abut 6 hours ago...

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Message 170002 - Posted: 20 Sep 2005, 15:25:05 UTC - in response to Message 169989.  
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Are you talking about machine 1376373? It has been chugging along quite nicely, and just finished it's last WU abut 6 hours ago...

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No, it's actually machine 1359162. It had results that it wasn't able to turn in due to the SETI outage, so I Reset the project and Updated it. From that point on, neither BOINCMenu or BOINC Manager would download any work units. I opened up BOINC Manager, ran a CPU Benchmark, and that's when it began crashing.
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Message 170052 - Posted: 20 Sep 2005, 17:08:03 UTC

Same symptom here. BOINC has behaved perfectly on my MAC G4 1GHZ since I joined SETI back in July this year. Yesterday evening it was still faring all right. This morning when I wanted to check the status of the project all I get is this dreadful spinning beach ball. Tried to Force Quit and started again - same symptom.
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Message 170063 - Posted: 20 Sep 2005, 17:21:57 UTC

Re-starting the computer solved my problem.
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Message 170067 - Posted: 20 Sep 2005, 17:30:48 UTC - in response to Message 170063.  

Re-starting the computer solved my problem.


This has been happening to me since September 8th. I've restarted my computer at least a dozen times with no effect.

I think I haven't deleted all the files for BOINC somehow. Does anyone know the full install path of the application and its files?
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Message 170097 - Posted: 20 Sep 2005, 18:16:09 UTC

I think the default is Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Boinc Data/ but I'm running mine as CLI on my PowerBook here at work, so I can't tell for sure.

I'm running BOINC SETI on my iBook at home using MenuBar with the Team MacNN optimized BOINC client 4.44 and the alexkan&rick optimized SETI Client. Give those a try and see if it gets rid of the beach ball - if it does, you'll be finishing WU about twice as fast, or better... Details here


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Message 170182 - Posted: 20 Sep 2005, 21:58:38 UTC - in response to Message 170097.  
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I think the default is Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Boinc Data/ but I'm running mine as CLI on my PowerBook here at work, so I can't tell for sure.

I'm running BOINC SETI on my iBook at home using MenuBar with the Team MacNN optimized BOINC client 4.44 and the alexkan&rick optimized SETI Client. Give those a try and see if it gets rid of the beach ball - if it does, you'll be finishing WU about twice as fast, or better... Details here


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Would you mind posting a walkthrough of how to do this? I'm not sure how to put all those pieces together and the directions provided here are not very clear.
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Message 170196 - Posted: 20 Sep 2005, 22:53:20 UTC - in response to Message 170097.  

I think the default is Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Boinc Data/ but I'm running mine as CLI on my PowerBook here at work, so I can't tell for sure.

I'm running BOINC SETI on my iBook at home using MenuBar with the Team MacNN optimized BOINC client 4.44 and the alexkan&rick optimized SETI Client. Give those a try and see if it gets rid of the beach ball - if it does, you'll be finishing WU about twice as fast, or better... Details here


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Would you mind posting a walkthrough of how to do this? I'm not sure how to put all those pieces together and the directions provided here are not very clear.
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