BOINC - not responding

[vaughan]

Recently I've noticed an annoying problem on several of my WinXP Pro SP2 computers. The BOINC Manager won't allow me to change tabs say from Projects to Tasks. When I click it doesn't respond, the mouse arrow turns into an hourglass and if I click again or several times then BOINC throws up a message on the top line saying (not responding).

I have found this with 5.10.8 ever since I updated the file definitions for AdAware 2007 earlier this week. I have tried installing 5.10.13 and also 5.8.16 but they all have this problem. If I terminate boincmgr.exe I still see projects still running. If I kill these and try to restart BOINC the phenomenon happens again.

Anybody else having this issue? Any solution?

[Lagu]

Recently I've noticed an annoying problem on several of my WinXP Pro SP2 computers. The BOINC Manager won't allow me to change tabs say from Projects to Tasks. When I click it doesn't respond, the mouse arrow turns into an hourglass and if I click again or several times then BOINC throws up a message on the top line saying (not responding).

I have found this with 5.10.8 ever since I updated the file definitions for AdAware 2007 earlier this week. I have tried installing 5.10.13 and also 5.8.16 but they all have this problem. If I terminate boincmgr.exe I still see projects still running. If I kill these and try to restart BOINC the phenomenon happens again.

Anybody else having this issue? Any solution?

I have had it long ago but I can´t remember what was the cause and how I got rid of it. Maybe it was eOn or AdAware or I had started 2 Boinc task managers of mistake. Or a WU from any project as "locked" task manager. Anaway I got rid of it relatively quick.

[AMDave]

You wouldn't happen to be running chess960 on the machine you are having trouble with, would you?

[vaughan]

Yes, along with BelgianBeer, Pirates, DepSpid, Riesel Sieve and Cosmology, and on another box it has Burp also.

[AMDave]

Just for kicks...Detatch chess960 from that machine
Betcha the problem goes away ;)

[vaughan]

How do I detach from it when I cannot control the BOINC Manager? Is there a file to modify in Windows Explorer?

Edit:
stderrgui.txt contains this:
Unhandled Exception Detected...

- Unhandled Exception Record -
Reason: Access Violation (0xc0000005) at address 0x00463938 read attempt to address 0x000000E0

Engaging BOINC Windows Runtime Debugger...

********************

BOINC Windows Runtime Debugger Version 5.8.16

Dump Timestamp : 07/18/07 13:08:43


stderrdae.txt contains this information:

2007-03-05 09:24:24 [Riesel Sieve Project] ACTIVE_TASKS::restart_tasks(); missing files
2007-03-05 09:24:24 [Riesel Sieve Project] Unrecoverable error for result riesel-llr_206097_0 (One or more missing files)

***UNHANDLED EXCEPTION****
Reason: Access Violation (0xc0000005) at address 0x0040C3BF read attempt to address 0x00000018

1: 03/05/07 09:24:24
1: SymGetLineFromAddr(): GetLastError = 126


2007-03-05 09:32:18 [Riesel Sieve Project] ACTIVE_TASKS::restart_tasks(); missing files
2007-03-05 09:32:18 [Riesel Sieve Project] Unrecoverable error for result riesel-llr_206097_0 (One or more missing files)

***UNHANDLED EXCEPTION****
Reason: Access Violation (0xc0000005) at address 0x0040C3BF read attempt to address 0x00000018

1: 03/05/07 09:32:18
1: SymGetLineFromAddr(): GetLastError = 126

UNRECOGNIZED: work_buf_additional_days
UNRECOGNIZED: max_cpus

followed by lots of lines starting with UNRECOGNIZED

[drezha]

I find this happens when it's connecting to a server. Bar that it works fine.

[vaughan]

I have a partial solution:
1. Uninstall BOINC using Windows Add/Remove from Control Panel.
2. From a CMD box run regedit.exe
3. Search (F3) for BOINC and delete every record it finds.
4. Re-boot PC
5. Download the latest BOINC (5.10.13)
6. Install BOINC
7. If you are lucky it eventually attaches to localconfig and finds all the projects you had attached that PC to. This was the case for 3 of my PCs. If you are unlucky, I had one example like this, you have to re-attach to all the projects again.
8. You have to re-size the window and adjust all the column widths again so that BOINC Manager looks reasonable again.
9. Watch it crunch tasks again and ENJOY the ability to check the different Tabs AGAIN without BOINC doing its not responding dummy-spit.

[Strongbow]

spring clean in July ...Painful!!!

Good to hear though that you're on .13 now!