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yank Send message Joined: 15 Aug 99 Posts: 522 Credit: 22,545,639 RAC: 0 |
Three of my computer have just quit running the BOINC program...6.6.38. All are Dell Quad cores and running the QMC project. One is a Windows XP OS and the other two are Windows Vista. The BOINC icon in the task bar shows the icon with a small red circle. I tried to reboot a number of times and the program opens up but then the red circle comes up on the icon in task bar. I have done a restore on all the computers but no change. I deleted the BOINC program and downloaded again. No change.Upon restarting the computers the icon come on and shortly thereafter stops working. My task manager shows the program working for a short time when turned on and then stops working. On the BOINC Manager under the message tab the information shows the normal start up of all projects I work and the start up of the projects I am working on that computer and nothing else. One dialogue box over the icon in task bar states 'reconnecting to client'. One dialogue box came up and some thing about "not a correct password". Have 7 other computers working and no problems. Any ideas about what the problem is? http://boinc.mundayweb.com/teamStats.php?userID=14824 |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
a restore would likely wipeout any work you had since its a snapshot of your OS and programs at a specific point in time. If you delete and reinstall without restarting your computer you'll be reinstalling everything right where it was before. You need to uninstall. restart then install. I still think you killed your previous work though. In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
52 Aces Send message Joined: 7 Jan 02 Posts: 497 Credit: 14,261,068 RAC: 67 |
and some thing about "not a correct password". Google is your friend, but do be verbatum about error messages (ex: was it "The password you have provided is incorrect, please try again"). As an fyi, I get that from time-to-time when Boinc gets overloaded (2000+ WU's)and I'm trying to rotate between tabs. All the projects then disappear, which gets your heart racing for a moment. But killing the Boinc service and restarting resolves it. Your case sounds different, here is what I found with Google, apologies that it's a bit of a techie dive, but worth a shot as those 3 machines sound dead in the water (note: Read the second paragraph first, that's the meat of the info): In the boinc directory is a file named gui_rpc_auth.cfg. This contains the password. If the file doesn't exist, it is automatically created, with a long alpha-numeric password, when boinc runs. This is the password that the manager is wanting. You can cat this file, or open it in a text editor to view the password. You can manually edit the gui_rpc_auth.cfg file to contain either an 'easier to remember' password, or no password at all. The password should be on the first line of the file, and should have a single carriage return at the end. To eliminate the password, a single carriage return on the first line of the file is needed. The use of the password will depend on how you have things set up from a security standpoint. If you change the password, you will have to stop and restart the boinc client for the new password to take effect.
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