for the past few days 11/15/06 the BONIC Manager can not fine the local host. all processing stops. running 5.4.11. on 24/7. running 4 or more projects round robin. only way to get working again is to exit and re-start. any idea why this is happing. any one else have the same issue?

The Boinc daemon (boinc.exe), the GUI (boincmgr.exe) and the screen saver program (boinc.scr) all communicate among each other using TCP port 31416. If for some reason this port is taken, you can get that message.

It can also happen that for some reason, Boinc Manager starts earlier than the daemon... so it won't find the main program.

I'd also check Windows updates first. See what was installed. Or see if the Windows firewall was updated and that the three programs are still allowed through it.

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got that problem also alot lately.

only thing that helps is restarting it :/

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there have been updates done, can't say if it was happing before or after.

I would "exit" and re-start and it would lose/fail to connect with in hours to a day later. repeating again and the same would happen w/in same time frame again.

11/21/06 did a re-install/repair in the AM and have yet to loose connection as of 15:00 est.

re-install/fix did not clear the problem. going to do a system re-boot (not been done lately). going to have a long weekend, hope it does not lock/lose connection. :(

for the past few days 11/15/06 the BONIC Manager can not fine the local host. all processing stops. running 5.4.11. on 24/7. running 4 or more projects round robin. only way to get working again is to exit and re-start. any idea why this is happing. any one else have the same issue?

I have a PC where the manager cannot connect to the client. I know the problem is memory related. It is an old celeron 1.7 XP Home and it just runs out of memory, it has. I tried everything till I put another stick of memory into it and it connected immediately. While it was low I couldn't do much at all even a net time command would error with not enough resources

How much memory has the PC got and do you have the WU's kept in memory when suspended ??

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project again shut-down over the long wk-end. pc is a P4 3.2 512mb ram. which project was causing memory problem? lost over 190 hours of crunch time.

We don't know which projects you are attached to. So why don't you tell us which project you have the problems with?

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rosetta, climateprediction.net, einstein and SETI.

after re-loading/repair of bonic.exe and a system re-boot, still getting lost connections a few times a day. I am now trying halting new work one project at a time to see which one is the causing the trouble. will let you know what I find.

I'm having the same problem. Manager is suddenly unable to find localhost after a while. Unsure exactly how long because I only notice when I wake up in the morning, or I get home from work. Every window becomes blank as well, so I can't see anything in the Messages window that might give me a hint as to what is causing this.

Running SETI, Einstein, and Rosetta.

Have ZoneAlarm installed, with all 3 BOINC-related programs having permissions (don't use the screensaver), and the client programs. Opened port 31416 so that shouldn't be blocked. Not running other programs that might be using that port, either.

EDIT: Just noticed something else new. WindowBlinds is suddenly not skinning Boinc Manager. Used to skin it fine.

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EDIT: Just noticed something else new. WindowBlinds is suddenly not skinning Boinc Manager. Used to skin it fine.

Ignore that.. it's back to skinning it properly now. <confused look>

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Blainer

Not much help for your problem, but the reason "all the windows go blank", is that this info is coming from the 'hidden' part of BOINC, the "worker daemon".
The function of the gui part, is to pass on to the user what the the worker is doing.
If the two parts aren't communicating, then there's nothing to pass on, so "blank".

The most common cause of the loss of communication is that something else has taken over the port that they use, 31416.
Some Windows programs do this on startup, and Zonealarm also blocks it if it's not told to let the programs through. Perhaps a recent update of some program has started the problem.

It's possible, from the number of reports lately on this problem, that something else has started to be a problem.

... so I can't see anything in the Messages window that might give me a hint as to what is causing this.

An archive of BOINC messages and errors are stored in stdoutdat.txt, which is in the BOINC folder, and a list of just the errors in stderrdae.txt

It's possible, from the number of reports lately on this problem, that something else has started to be a problem.

An archive of BOINC messages and errors are stored in stdoutdat.txt, which is in the BOINC folder, and a list of just the errors in stderrdae.txt

After looking through the stdoutdae.txt file, every time there's been an apparent stoppage of BOINC (the next messages are when I restarted BOINC manually), Rosetta@home downloading something was the last message saved:

2006-11-21 18:38:27 [rosetta@home] Started download of file boinc_hom012_aas014_09_05.200_v1_3.gz
2006-11-21 18:38:29 [rosetta@home] Finished download of file boinc_hom012_aas014_09_05.200_v1_3.gz
2006-11-21 18:38:29 [rosetta@home] Throughput 208015 bytes/sec
To pause/resume tasks hit CTRL-C, to exit hit CTRL-BREAK
2006-11-21 23:43:42 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.11 for windows_intelx86
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2006-11-24 15:32:02 [rosetta@home] Started download of file 1agr_1_idid_model_13_0001_idl.pdb.gz
To pause/resume tasks hit CTRL-C, to exit hit CTRL-BREAK
2006-11-24 18:49:22 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.11 for windows_intelx86
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2006-11-28 08:07:56 [rosetta@home] Started download of file PSH_0071aa1d5mG03_05.200_v1_3.gz
To pause/resume tasks hit CTRL-C, to exit hit CTRL-BREAK
2006-11-28 18:58:20 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.11 for windows_intelx86
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2006-11-29 15:08:17 [rosetta@home] Started download of file PSH_0104_descriptionfile.txt
To pause/resume tasks hit CTRL-C, to exit hit CTRL-BREAK
2006-11-29 18:52:22 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.11 for windows_intelx86
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2006-11-30 04:05:32 [rosetta@home] Started download of file PSH_0117_3913.pdb
To pause/resume tasks hit CTRL-C, to exit hit CTRL-BREAK
2006-11-30 07:53:07 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.11 for windows_intelx86

Prior to the last Rosetta@home messages, BOINC appears to have been operating normally. Scheduling, uploading, downloading, etc, all happened properly.

Empirically, this seems to point to a problem with Rosetta: either Rosetta itself, or with how it and BOINC are interacting.

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Please look at this thread: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=1332

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Rosetta looks to be the cause as reported below, after a day and a half of Rosetta being suspended, turn back on and w/ in a half a day BONIC would lock up, exit - restart all good again. have reset and suspended Rosetta for the weekend and next monday 12/4 will turn Rosetta back on to see if it fails again.

Hi all. I posted a related error on this thread, Couldn't delete file.... Hope this helps.

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