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Message 926401 - Posted: 16 Aug 2009, 2:26:10 UTC

After several hours of internet outage my BOINC manager is not connected. How do I reconnect?
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Message 926402 - Posted: 16 Aug 2009, 2:33:09 UTC - in response to Message 926401.  

After several hours of internet outage my BOINC manager is not connected. How do I reconnect?
Thank you for your assistance.

The connection it is complaining about is to your BOINC daemon from the BOINC manager on your machine.

There are several possibilities:

1) BOINC.exe has crashed (check to see if BOINC.exe is running in Windows Task Manager - or equivalent for your OS). If not started, start BOINC.exe again (how to depends on how you installed BOINC). Try "net start BOINC" from a command prompt. If that fails, stop BOINC Manager and start again.

2) BOINC.exe is running but something is interfering with communications on port 31416. Likely candidates are personal firewalls. Make certain that port 31416 is allowed through your local firewall, and that BOINC.exe is allowed to be a server for port 31416. This gets more complicated on a LAN.


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Message 926415 - Posted: 16 Aug 2009, 3:20:00 UTC

I do not really understand this but since I did not know how to do what you recommended - I could not find the Windows task manager, etc., and do not what an OS is - I went to BOINC in the program files and double-clicked it. A new BOINC manager came up that was communicating just fine with SETI and apparently has been ever since I reconnected to the net. I was just lucky on this as I have no idea what I am doing half the time when I try to fix things.
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Message 926420 - Posted: 16 Aug 2009, 3:36:06 UTC - in response to Message 926415.  

I do not really understand this but since I did not know how to do what you recommended - I could not find the Windows task manager, etc., and do not what an OS is - I went to BOINC in the program files and double-clicked it. A new BOINC manager came up that was communicating just fine with SETI and apparently has been ever since I reconnected to the net. I was just lucky on this as I have no idea what I am doing half the time when I try to fix things.
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OS = Operating System = Windows ?, Linux ?, Mac ?

Windows Task Manager can be reached either through a right click on a blank spot on the task bar (usually at the bottom of the screen in windows) or through CTRL-ALT-DEL on most versions of Windows. Linux and Mac have equivalents that have different names, and are reached differently.


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Message 926457 - Posted: 16 Aug 2009, 4:59:15 UTC
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Version 6 of Boinc does have a bug that when you lose your Internet connection the graphic interface (GUI) will stop taking with the core client and will become unresponsive. I've had the same problem several times. Hopefully this will be fixed before the next version is released.

If you notice the loss of Internet it is a good idea to go in the Advanced view - Activity menu - select Network activity suspended. Restore to network available once you have the Internet is accessible again.
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Message 926997 - Posted: 18 Aug 2009, 14:55:02 UTC - in response to Message 926457.  

Version 6 of Boinc does have a bug that when you lose your Internet connection the graphic interface (GUI) will stop taking with the core client and will become unresponsive. I've had the same problem several times. Hopefully this will be fixed before the next version is released.

If you notice the loss of Internet it is a good idea to go in the Advanced view - Activity menu - select Network activity suspended. Restore to network available once you have the Internet is accessible again.

I will keep this in mind - and copy it and try to do it if it happens again.
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