Did they ever fix BOINC v6.x not working on Windows Domain Controllers?

If you want to run BOINC as an application instead of a service it runs fine, but the installer blocks the install. I just copy the program folder from an installed machine to the DC. Then run boincmgr.exe

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6.11.6 is out, still no messages tab (sigh)

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Don't hold your breath, there won't be any messages tab in the 6.11 (test-)range going to 6.12. The Event Log can now be minimized though.

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The change log for 6.11.6...

- lib: prevent crash on startup if slot directories have been deleted.

- client: fix bug in my last checkin

- lib: removed unneeded include. Fixes #1004

- MGR: Fix build break on Mac

- scheduler: message tweak

- MGR: Allow Notices tab to scroll smoothly, disallow selection of items in Notices tab.

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there won't be any messages tab in the 6.11 (test-)range going to 6.12.

Pity

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6.11.7 change log

- MGR: In the future I need to be more careful when I flatten a class hierarchy. I broke the ability to get the latest project configuration from account managers. Fix that.

- MGR: Fix build issue on Linux (Sqlite3 needed to be added to the list of libs and header directories to be included)

- MGR: Remove copyright claims to wxWidgets code.

- client: check whether anonymous-app files exist

- client: parse (and ignore) <anonymous_platform> element in state file

- MGR: Remove unused WXDLL* declarations to improve Linux compatibility.

- MGR: Set the email text box validator to a simple text validator when the project in question only supports usernames.

- client: Only error out of the CPU version check if the call to CPUID(0) returns zero.

- MGR: Try and clean up all the undefined reference errors for the GCC linker

- MGR: Finish implementing the use of Usernames in the account manager part of the wizard. I must have been asleep at the wheel on that one.

- scheduler: change the "primary_platform_only" config option to "prefer_primary_platform". If an app has only only 32-bit versions, use the for 64-bit clients.

- client: maintain "gpu_active_frac" in addition to "active_frac" (which really means CPU active)

- MGR: Further refinements to Client shutdown logic on Manager Exit: Old: Manager shut down Client only if it started the Client. New: Don't show exit dialog if connected Client is not on localhost. Mac: Manager shuts down Client only if it started the Client and if the Client is on localhost. Windows, Linux: Manager shuts down Client, whether or not the Manager started the Client, but only if the Client is on localhost and the user requests Client shutdown in the exit dialog, even if running as a service on Windows. As before, it skips the exit dialog and uses the saved behavior if the user previously set "Remember this decision and do not show this dialog."

- MGR: On Mac only, Close Window menu item (or its shortcut Command-w) closes the Event Log if it is the front window.

- client: treat notices from schedulers a little differently. Ignore duplicate notices unless they're at least 24 hours newer than the previous one.

- client: ignore case in names of "exclusive apps" and exclusive GPU apps

- client: fix bug that caused GPU apps to not be suspended or resumed immediately after exclusive GPU app transition

- client: in log message, instead of saying "fetching tasks for GPU", say which kind of GPU TODO: GPU suspend/resume works by setting or clearing gpu_suspend_reason, then calling request_schedule_cpus(). There's no explicit suspending or resuming. CPU suspend/resume should work the same way.

- client: back out changeset [21086], which cleaned out project dir on reset. The semantics of reset are to not delete sticky files.

- client: fix "boinc_temporary_exit()" support. This is critical for GPU support.

- client: fix problems with exclusive_gpu_app feature.

- MGR: Properly display which components have trouble loading when a skin is defined.

- MGR: A new new skin which will become the new default skin.

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Just downloaded 6.11.6.

My 2 cents worth: - I like it & can't see any problems as yet.

Notices is nice. Already got one about the Boinc Retreat.

This could be a very useful feature for the project.

When is 6.11 version going to be the norm?

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No idea, but I liked 6.11.6 a lot, that i've installed it on all my rigs.

When is 6.11 version going to be the norm?

Never, because the odd numbers are for development versions only. You'll have to wait for 6.12.

Gruß,
Gundolf

When is 6.11 version going to be the norm?

V6.11.xx won't be released, but the v6.12.xx-branch will likely be created next week, and depending on how the testing goes it's possible v6.12.xx will be released around start of October 2010...

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"I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might."

When is 6.11 version going to be the norm?

V6.11.xx won't be released, but the v6.12.xx-branch will likely be created next week, and depending on how the testing goes it's possible v6.12.xx will be released around start of October 2010...

Nice. Look forward to it.

I joined the tester ranks last week just before the unscheduled shut-down. I noticed that the messages tab is now a pop-up from the advanced menu and that nothing is going to change in the near future for that. The two issues that I have is the NOTICE tab which if I read the change log correctly will be empty 99.44/100% of the time, which I guess is what it is. The other is really a question... What is the purpose of switching the columns around in the PROJECTS, TASKS, and TRANSFERS tabs? Very confusing until you get used to it, it just doesn't look right.

I joined the tester ranks last week just before the unscheduled shut-down. I noticed that the messages tab is now a pop-up from the advanced menu and that nothing is going to change in the near future for that. The two issues that I have is the NOTICE tab which if I read the change log correctly will be empty 99.44/100% of the time, which I guess is what it is. The other is really a question... What is the purpose of switching the columns around in the PROJECTS, TASKS, and TRANSFERS tabs? Very confusing until you get used to it, it just doesn't look right.

Cause the Boinc Devs probably don't have anything better to do, So they go for style points, 6.10.xx works, 6.11.x is broken as far as I'm concerned and I will not use It or anything like It.

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Well I found a bad problem with both 6.11.6/7 & got asked on the boinc forum to post to the alpha mailing list. did so but got a bounced message back stating that I have to subscribe...........

I do & used the correct e-mail addy..... so there's problems there as well.....

The big problem I found with both is that I had 5 einstein wu's with a deadline of 13/9/10 19:25:53 & the "high priority" mode did not kick in. Boinc continued to crunch other wu's, so aborted them as too close to deadline & would not be completed.

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On the original post on this subject there was mention of the ALPHA EMAIL LIST to report any errors. This old man's eyes been all over the beta site and cannot locate where to register. Could someone please point me in the right direction? Also does anyone have any idea when the beta database will be back on line?

On the original post on this subject there was mention of the ALPHA EMAIL LIST to report any errors. This old man's eyes been all over the beta site and cannot locate where to register. Could someone please point me in the right direction? Also does anyone have any idea when the beta database will be back on line?

Here's a link to the Alpha site http://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/ there are also instructions on how to be a Boinc Alpha tester, and you'll need to subscribe to the Boinc Alpha email list and possibly a good idea to the Boinc Dev list, here's a list to where to sign up to these email groups: http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo
Just bear in mind that this is for all projects and not just Seti, so the email's can soon add up

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On the original post on this subject there was mention of the ALPHA EMAIL LIST to report any errors. This old man's eyes been all over the beta site and cannot locate where to register. Could someone please point me in the right direction? Also does anyone have any idea when the beta database will be back on line?

Here's a link to the Alpha site there are also instructions on how to be a Boinc Alpha tester, and you'll need to subscribe to the Boinc Alpha email list and possibly a good idea to the Boinc Dev list, here's a list to where to sign up to these email groups:
Just bear in mind that this is for all projects and not just Seti, so the email's can soon add up

Has someone with one or two FERMI's, tried BOINC 6.11.6, which should be OK, I hope ;)
Can try it on a WIN XP64, QX9650+GTX470&GTX480.

Still a lot of WU's in DownLoad state.......
Took almost a full day to get some MB tasks, Einstein was first, with a few hundred CPU+GPU WU's, which I run 2 at a time on every GPU(+CPU), they have a terrible low GPU load!
(If I'd had Hyperthreathing, I'd run 8 at a time.

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Has someone with one or two FERMI's, tried BOINC 6.11.6, which should be OK, I hope ;)
Can try it on a WIN XP64, QX9650+GTX470&GTX480.

Yep. Have a GTX460, works fine. Still a cosmetic issue on how many Glops it can do, but doesn't effect processing.

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