Hi,

since 2 days BOINC Manager on one of my hosts is failing to download .exe files form most (but not all) of the projects (I'm attached to almost every BOINC-project).

The error message I got is like:

05/10/2009 15.05.08 Cosmology@Home Finished download of camb_2.16_windows_intelx86.exe
05/10/2009 15.05.08 Cosmology@Home [error] Signature verification failed for camb_2.16_windows_intelx86.exe
05/10/2009 15.05.08 Cosmology@Home [error] Checksum or signature error for camb_2.16_windows_intelx86.exe

I tried uninstalling/reinstalling BOINC, deleting the data directory and every reference to BOINC but id didn't work.

What could I try?

Thanks

darkpella

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That seems to happen at Cosmology from time to time. Do an advanced search for "Signature verification" (without the quotes) over 6 months.

Did you already ask at the Cosmology boards?

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

If it happens at almost all the projects you are attached to, I'd check the disk drive that the BOINC Data directory is installed on. You may have a corruption going on on there.

Use the Windows "chkdsk /f" command from a command line and if asked, reboot the system, then let the disk checker check the drive. If the BOINC Data directory is on another partition than C:, you can tell through "chkdsk e: /f" to check a different drive/partition. In the example, e: would be the drive BOINC has its Data directory on.

Ultimately you can try installing BOINC to a different directory/partition/drive to see if that fixes it.

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