I recently had a OS drive crash and reinstalled everything from scratch, including BOINC. No errors installing, but when I open BOINC Manager, it won't find any client on my computer, nor is there one running as a process. I've tried all three gui installs (and uninstalls) available for Mac, same with each. I haven't really installed anything that I can think of that may be interfering with it, just OS X 10.6.2, iLife and iWork '09, Photoshop and Illustrator CS, Chrome, Firefox, VLC n PLEX. Any help?

I assume as part of your installation of BOINC, you attached the SETI client.

Your SETI client should be in Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/

If you don't see anything in the above folder, start BOINC Manager, then in Tools menu, select "Attach to Project..."

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Make certain that you are allowing boinc and BOINCManager through the firewall as well.

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Can't even get as far as attaching a project. Install, open manager, can't connect to client.

They were having trouble with the servers the last few days. Go ahead and try again - everything seems to be up and working now.

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The can't connect to a client symptom is usually caused by a firewall blocking the communication between BOINC Manager and the BOINC binary. Make sure you allow both through the firewall on TCP port 31416.

The BOINC binary (not BOINC Manager == the GUI) will need a separate exclusion on TCP ports 80 and 443 to reach the internet.

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Firewall is turned off. I'm gonna do some experiments, it has to be OS X 10.6. I just tried it with a 10.5.8 partition and it was fine.

Please keep us advised, Sean. About a month after Snow Leopard came out, our IT people at work finally upgraded us from Tiger to Leopard. My home iBook G4 has been running Leopard since a month after it came out, but it won't run Snow Leopard, so I'll have to wait until I upgrade the home machine...hopefully the bugs between SETI and Snow Leopard will be worked out soon.

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I am running BOINC on my Snow Leopard machine just fine.

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You could open the Activity Monitor before launching BOINC and watch it to see if the Client appears at all.

Another place to look for clues is in the system log. You can run the Console application and select "All Messages." Then watch for any error messages as you launch the Manager and wait for the Client to launch.

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Me too

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Me too

What kind of answer do you expect to that post?

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Me too

What kind of answer do you expect to that post?

None, I think... He just confirmed that he runs BOINC on Snow Leopard without problems. :-)

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Me too

What kind of answer do you expect to that post?

None, I think... He just confirmed that he runs BOINC on Snow Leopard without problems. :-)

Yep, my fault. Got the wrong link to answered post. :-)

Gruß,
Gundolf

its fixed now. I reinstalled the OS again, Boinc was fine if I installed it FIRST. Not sure if Snow Leopard installed some bad permissions or privileges somewhere.

I am having the same problems. PLease help lol.