Of course. 2011/5/20 Rom Walton <[email protected]>
> Is the “Display Exit Dialog” checkbox checked in the “Display and network > options” dialog in the advanced GUI? > > > > ----- Rom > > > > *From:* Ed A [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, May 20, 2011 3:57 PM > *To:* Rom Walton > *Cc:* Daniel Lombraña González; [email protected] > > *Subject:* Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC 6.12.26 released to public > > > > While I can't comment on what the program is doing, I can relate the > symptoms. It's been a problem almost since boinctray.exe was added ( I > believe to resolve an issue in Vista). It could be a conflict with another > program but most of the 11 machines I'm running have very little going on > except BOINC and the science apps. The problem is worse in XP but happens > in Win7 also. Never used Vista so can't comment on that. Especially after > BOINC has been running for a few days or more, when exiting BOINC manager > the exit dialog fails to appear and boinc.exe is not shut down. Often BOINC > manager fails to reconnect with the client when the manager is restarted. > Killing bonctray.exe will almost always allow the manager to reconnect with > BOINC. At that point exiting again will bring up the exit dialog and > boinc.exe and science apps will be properly shut down upon confirmation. > > > > Perhaps this isn't noticed by 99% of the users since they don't look in a > task/process manager and are just assuming that BOINC has completely shut > down when it hasn't. > > > > Regards/Ed > > > > 2011/5/20 Rom Walton <[email protected]> > > That is odd, boinctray doesn't do anything except report the last time the > keyboard or mouse was used. It writes that information to a specific area > of memory. That is all it does. > > Boinc goes and looks in that area of memory about once a second, but during > a shutdown operation it doesn't use it at all. > > ----- Rom > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed A > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 1:47 PM > To: Daniel Lombraña González > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC 6.12.26 released to public > > Of the 11 BOINC Windows machines I run the failure to shut down boinc.exe > and the running projects has been a problem on every one, again for many > many versions. The longer BOINC has been running the more likely it is to > refuse to shut down. Usually killing the boinctray.exe, then restarting > the > BOINC manager and exiting again will close boinc.exe and the projects. If > you try to start BOINC and then exit shortly afterwards it will always exit > correctly, so testing it in that manner is useless. > > Regards/Ed > > > 2011/5/20 Daniel Lombraña González <[email protected]> > > > Dear all, > > > > First of all I would like to apologize for sending the e-mail to several > > e-mail lists (I hit answer all without reviewing the recipients :( ) > > > > Second: up to now in GNU/Linux when you exit BOINC Manager the BOINC > client > > was completely stopped. This has changed in the last version, and I don't > > know if this is a bug of if this has changed, as I said in my previous > > e-mail. Checking this in other platforms and the same version I see that > > all > > of the work as expected, quitting BOINC when you exit BOINC Manager > > completely, so that's why I send the first e-mail. > > > > Regards, > > > > Daniel > > > > 2011/5/20 Ed A <[email protected]> > > > > > This is not Linux specific. It has been a problem also for the Windows > > > versions for a long, long time. In fact 6.12.26 seems to be perhaps a > > bit > > > better in this regard than previous releases. In Windows the problem > is > > > less pronounced if boinctray.exe is removed from startup in the > registry. > > > Unfortunately it reinstalls the registry key at every new release. > I've > > > pointed out the problem more than once but so far no solution. > > > > > > Regards/Ed > > > > > > > > > 2011/5/19 Daniel Lombraña González <[email protected]> > > > > > >> Dear all, > > >> > > >> The GNU/Linux version does not work properly. When you exit the BOINC > > >> Manager, the BOINC client stills running. I have checked this in Mac > OS > > X > > >> and it works perfectly well, so I think that this could be a bug. Can > > some > > >> one share if they have the same problem with version 6.12.26? > > >> > > >> Regards, > > >> > > >> Daniel > > >> > > >> > > > > > > -- > > > > > ·························································································································································· > > http://jarifa.unex.es/ > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/teleyinex > > > > > ·························································································································································· > > Por favor, NO utilice formatos de archivo propietarios para el > > intercambio de documentos, como DOC y XLS, sino HTML, RTF, TXT, CSV > > o cualquier otro que no obligue a utilizar un programa de un > > fabricante concreto para tratar la información contenida en él. > > > > > ·························································································································································· > > _______________________________________________ > > boinc_dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > > > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > > > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
