[MacOSX] After closing program, it lost attached project
27 Nov 2007 17:36:02 UTC
Topic 193347
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Hello,
BOINC was running on my father's new MacBook pro, at 100% to make a burn-in of the computer.
My father closed BOINC, as the CPU temperature had reached 80°.
After I reopened the program (to lower the CPU usage, and the temperature) it told me that he wanted to attach to a project, as it was not attached.
Is there a way to make it remember that it was already working, so that the two data sets can be completed?
A backup is available.
Thanks
Emilio Desalvo
[MacOSX] After closing program, it lost attached project
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A couple of questions:-
1. What account name (or ID) is the computer registered under?
2. When BOINC was stopped, had it already crashed or was it stopped normally?
3. At what stage was the backup taken?
4. Can you browse the directory where BOINC was installed and see critical files like account_einstein.phys.uwm.edu.xml and client_state.xml, etc?
5. When you tried to restart BOINC, were you able to capture the messages produced during that restart? They are recorded in a file stdoutdae.txt which should exist in the BOINC directory.
If BOINC is restarted and the critical files exist and in undamaged condition, BOINC will "remember" all it needs to know to continue working on the tasks in progress. There should be no need to re-register the machine so don't do that. If you provide more information, hopefully the work in progress can be recovered.
Cheers,
Gary.
Well, it seems that my father
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Well, it seems that my father has strange concepts regarding "Closing a program".
This is what I have found in stdoutdae.txt
25-Nov-2007 19:09:32 [Einstein@Home] Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
25-Nov-2007 19:09:47 [Einstein@Home] Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
26-Nov-2007 08:35:50 [Einstein@Home] Resetting project
26-Nov-2007 08:35:51 [Einstein@Home] Detaching from project
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