Yesterday I had to reboot my machine and BOINC Manager stopped working. It freezes in the initialization (connecting to local host)...

I've been using version 4.25 for more than a year with no problems. I left it "trying" to work overnight with no result, so I downloaded Version 4.45, isntalled it and the same thing happened.

I decided to make a fresh install, unistalling and erasing the folder and its contents... and the problem persists... any ideas ??? Please....

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Did you try starting the CC from the command line? I had a case where Winsock broke and a socket to the RPC port could not be created. IIRC the socket error message would not appear in the manager, but I could see it as an error message in the command window.

<edit> You could also try checking the error txt files in the main BOINC directory to see if there's any more info.

Just a thought.

HTH,

Alinator

I checked the text files but stderr stdout are empty... Also I started boinc.exe, it did the cpu benchmark and now is waiting for work (insufficient... requesting more)... I have just tried again with the manager... and nothing, it freezes immediately :(

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Ok, since you did an upgrade to BOINC, the CC rerunning the benchmarks is normal.

It's looking like you cannot establish the localhost connection to the CC from the manager.

<edit> I just noticed you said you're getting an insufficient work notice, but are you seeing the CC actually trying to get out and contact SAH for work? If it is you should be getting a "No Work from Project" response right now.

Out of curiosity, what prompted the reboot

Alinator

My machine had more than month working, but during my vacations there were changes in our network and lost some connections I need for my everyday work, so I
did it to restablish them... everything went right, excepto B. Manager...

I have a network monitor that send emails in case of a connection failure in our Wan... thats why my machine is on all the time (and also the reason I run SETI all the time:)

--- and I dont receive the "no work from project" and Netstat doesnt show the connection attempt---

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It would be helpful if you posted the messages from the message tab. Also if you are using a firewall check to make sure that boinc.exe and boincmgr.exe have permission to talk to each other.

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98SE XP2500+ @ 2.1 GHz Boinc v5.8.8

And God said"Let there be light."But then the program crashed because he was trying to access the 'light' property of a NULL universe pointer.

BOINC freezes before it can post or write a message. No error messages at all... I checked my Zone Alarm Firewall and gave rights to the new version I just installed and the problem remains... Also, I have a program (windows netstat) that shows mi ip addr, which means it connects to local port.

Another thing I was thinking is that, beeing a new install, it is strange that it doesnt ask for my account number or any URL...

As I been using the program for more than a year, without any problem, I thought that maybe one of the files was damaged... thats the reason for the new install. But nothing happens :(

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I'm assuming it's your XP Pro machine giving you the problem?

One thing to try is to see if you can ping the loopback address 127.0.0.1 (using 'localhost' in place of the IP works too).

If you cannot ping it, then something in Windows broke, and the problem isn't with your BOINC installation.

If you can ping it, then I'm scratching my head as to why a clean BOINC install didn't fix it.

Alinator

Thank you friends... I'm finally up and running... :)

My guess is that my ZoneAlarm is kind of messed up... I rebooted again my machine and checked the firewall... it forgot what I had asked it before... Repeated the procedure and Boing didnt freeze... I asked for a "new" project and bang... I was there again...

Thanks for your assistance...

Maybe I will have to reinstall ZoneAlarm if the problem recurs the next time I reboot the machine.

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Glad to hear you figured it out! :-)

FWIW, corruption of the app database problems like that is a recurrent issue with some of the PFW's.

It's been a while since I ran ZA, but you used to be able to workaround that by deleting the .rdb files in the Internet Logs folder and not have to reinstall it.

Alinator

Tks Alinator... I will try deleting those files to avoid distracting problems like this one... Have a nice day

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Keep in mind you will have to work through your trusted apps and networks lists again if you delete them.

Alinator

Yeap... I will do it in one of those (few) quiet job days... or not until the next reboot... in a month or so...

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