OS-X Sonoma and the einstein@home screen saver
28 Sep 2023 0:13:15 UTC
Topic 230130
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I installed Sonoma on my M1 Mac-mini. I installed Sonoma this morning and it defaults to an Apple screen saver. Way down at the bottom of the choices is the Boinc screen saver. Sonoma and the screen saver do not get along. The boinc logo bounces around jittering like crazy near the bottom but telling you it is starting the screen saver. That never happens until you click on the logo then you see the rotating Star Sphere but it flashes on and off. Once I got that far I could not get out of it. I ended up holding the cntrl alt del keys down and got a window allowing me to restart the computer.
Stephen Hawkins
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Does anyone else have this
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Does anyone else have this problem?
Stephen Hawkins
73 49 111 01001001
The developers know about
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The developers know about this and are working on a fix.
See: BOINC website, news section
BOINC client [and manager]
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BOINC client [and manager] 7.24.2 released for Mac
It's not perfect - still won't display any project graphics - but at least it shouldn't lock you out of the computer.
I am at OS-X 14.1.1 The
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I am at OS-X 14.1.1 The BOINC screen saver is no longer a choice.
Stephen Hawkins
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Updated to OS-X 14.2.1 The
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Updated to OS-X 14.2.1 The Boinc screen saver is still no longer one of the options.
Stephen Hawkins
73 49 111 01001001
Just installed BOINC 7.23.3
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Just installed BOINC 7.23.3 on my Mac-Mini running Sonoma 14.2.1 and BOINC. Einstein@home runs in the background but BOINC is still not a choice in the screensaver tab in system settings. Anybody else having this problem?
I installed BOINC 7.24.3 on
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I installed BOINC 7.24.3 on my Mac-Mini running Sonoma 14.2.1 and BOINC with Einstein@home runs in the background but BOINC is still not a choice in the screensaver tab in system settings
Eric Belove wrote: I
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this is a BOINC issue. nothing to do with this project.
make an issue about it here: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc
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I installed BOINC 7.24.4 and
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I installed BOINC 7.24.4 and running w/Einstein@Home I get the BOINC starting screensaver animation alternative with 2 error messages: 1) Could not connect to screensaver of application Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) and 2) Could not connect to screensaver of application Gamma-ray pulsar search #5. However, when I click on the mouse or tap the space bar to wake the computer there is a black screen with the Einstein@Home animation that pops up for a few seconds
Got this response to a post on the BOINC community board. "The screensaver part in BOINC has been fixed, but for this fix to work for the project's applications, their apps need to add the fix as well. Until that's done, you'll get the effect you see. Tell Einstein@Home in your case to fix their graphics apps for the science apps."