"Connection Failed": bane of my BOINC life

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Divide Overflow Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 82 Credit: 921,382 RAC: 0	Message 2687 - Posted: 9 Nov 2005, 6:04:36 UTC ID: 2687 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

J D K Send message Joined: 23 Sep 05 Posts: 168 Credit: 101,266 RAC: 0	Message 2732 - Posted: 9 Nov 2005, 16:19:59 UTC Do you have Boinc to 'start at boot'? I start my Boinc after all else has started and have never had that problem.... BOINC Wiki ID: 2732 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Divide Overflow Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 82 Credit: 921,382 RAC: 0	Message 2735 - Posted: 9 Nov 2005, 16:42:05 UTC - in response to Message 2732. Do you have Boinc to 'start at boot'? I start my Boinc after all else has started and have never had that problem.... No, it's not set to start automatically. Single user install, not a service. I wait until my system has finished booting up and then manually start BOINC. ID: 2735 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

J D K Send message Joined: 23 Sep 05 Posts: 168 Credit: 101,266 RAC: 0	Message 2816 - Posted: 10 Nov 2005, 17:17:40 UTC I picked this up from another post some where lol OK, the disconnected issue means that the BOINC manager is not able to talk to the BOINC daemon. Whether or not you are uploading/downloading/crunching at this point must be determined with the task list (I do not rememeber how to bring this up for 95/98/me). The usual reason for this problem is that the BOINC manager is starting and trying to talk before the BOINC daemon is ready to listen. The usual fix is to wait a minute or two and see if connecting to "" or "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" works. If the above fails, then there is a possibility that the BOINC daemon is not starting. If that is the case, then staring it manually may help. If it is installed as a service, run "net start boinc" from a command line. If it is installed as single or multi user, cd to the install directory, and run boinc.exe. If it is now running, you are the victim of a bug that has hopefully been fixed in 5.1. If it is still not working, you have a problem with one of the XML files, and you will probably have to delete the directory and start over. (I have seen this problem much less with 5.1). BOINC Wiki ID: 2816 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Divide Overflow Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 82 Credit: 921,382 RAC: 0	Message 2903 - Posted: 11 Nov 2005, 17:13:34 UTC - in response to Message 2816. I picked this up from another post some where lol Thanks for the info. If I try to use BOINC Manager to select computer and choose localhost or 127.0.0.1, I get an invalid password message. When BOINC Manager is acting up I can always shut it down, manually run boinc.exe and then run boincmgr.exe. BOINC Manager will then open up and status the running projects properly without any error messages. Unfortunately, I have to keep the separate boinc.exe window up and running. It's a quirk that should be fixed and I see it just as much with 5.x as I have with any other version since 4.19. I just find it odd that it will work some of the time and not others, with no rhyme or reason to why! ID: 2903 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

J D K Send message Joined: 23 Sep 05 Posts: 168 Credit: 101,266 RAC: 0	Message 2907 - Posted: 11 Nov 2005, 19:06:23 UTC Might want to go to the Boinc folder and open, gui rpc auth, file and delete the long pw and enter you own pw. BOINC Wiki ID: 2907 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote