The windows help forum wasn't much help

I know this wasn't happening to me on the previous version and I'm not even sure if it started just after updating to 4.05 or after that at some point.

http://users.dls.net/~mbrennecke/images/boinc_error.jpg

It only happens after a reboot then BOINC seems to carry on without issues.

2.4 P4, XP (not SP2) machine

Suggestions? Reinstall? Wait for new version?

I don't restart it that often so it's not a real big deal but you know how it is... just hate errors!!



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Everyday with BOINC brings new surprises :)

Total: 28786.83
RAC: 641.98
Pending: Eleventy Gazillion

~Michael
"They better be out there, I think we need their help"

One Word "Rollback".....

Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools->System Restore

Pick a date a couple of days ago, when things worked, restore the systme to then and be happy.

Should I take that to mean no one else has seen this error?
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Everyday with BOINC brings new surprises :)

Total: 28786.83
RAC: 641.98
Pending: Eleventy Gazillion

~Michael
"They better be out there, I think we need their help"

-do not ask a forum for help, forum wasn't much help (you say)
-do not reboot
-do not restart
-do wait for new releases
-do be a man and use pre released version and be happy with it (at your own risk, until public go)

-do not change too much your system, jpg looks like from a kde or MAC, but not from XP

-do love errors (in your profile:Technical Support, if you ARE in this, you must love errors)
-do checkdisk and defrag bevor installing
-do make a backup (Copy boinc folder into an other folder) of boincfolder, do re-install Boincclient, do reattach to project, do rewait for work

-do use as mentioned above XP based recovery functions (you payed for)
-do be wished luck

>it's not a real big deal
-do not deal

-do be happy.

-do sleep well

> Should I take that to mean no one else has seen this error?
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Everyday with BOINC brings new surprises :)
>
> Total: 28786.83
> RAC: 641.98
> Pending: Eleventy Gazillion
>
> ~Michael
> "They better be out there, I think we need their help"
>

That error generally means BOINC cannot create the stderr.txt file in the same folder as the boinc_gui.exe program itself.

Does BOINC have folder permissions to create files in that folder?

----- Rom

BOINC Development Team, U.C. Berkeley

> That error generally means BOINC cannot create the stderr.txt file in the same
> folder as the boinc_gui.exe program itself.
>
> Does BOINC have folder permissions to create files in that folder?
>
> ----- Rom



Yes, it sure does....

Oddly I have tried to reboot a few more times to recreate it under different circumstances and now it has stopped happening completely.

Heh... Odd but OK w/Me


Thanks All!!

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Everyday with BOINC brings new surprises :)

Total: 28786.83
RAC: 641.98
Pending: Eleventy Gazillion

~Michael
"They better be out there, I think we need their help"

I had a similar error pop up every time i logged in to my PC as a user other than my own admin one. Eventually solved the problem by shifting the BOINC folder from the C: program files folder to the Shared documents folder in the documents and settings folder.

Figure this will help u if the problem resurfaces.

> I had a similar error pop up every time i logged in to my PC as a user other
> than my own admin one. Eventually solved the problem by shifting the BOINC
> folder from the C: program files folder to the Shared documents folder in the
> documents and settings folder.
>
> Figure this will help u if the problem resurfaces.
>
I have this problem as well. I have NO logins. It just boots right into Windoze. I had this error on XP, XP SP2 (just installed) as well as Boinc v3 and Boinc v4 just installed. So I just don't know WHAT to do. It's frustrating.

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