Hi Richard, I quickly read through the very long thread and I may have missed something, but I don't understand why he would need to run something in the Terminal window. Terminal is the command-line interface to the UNIX underlying Mac OS X. If I read the thread correctly, he needs to edit the client_state.xml file: > The only way to recover from this for me has been to edit client_state.xml > and remove all entries related to the crashed task. or: > deleting account_climateprediction.net.xml from BOINC's data directory
I would strongly recommend the second option, as it is very easy to seriously mess up the client_state.xml file if you make a mistake editing it. Note also that if he does modify any file in the BOINC_Data directory with a text editor, he will probably need to fix the file owner, group and permissions. There are two ways to do this: * Run the BOINC Mac installer again. I wrote it so it doubles as a tool to fix BOINC's permissions. * Run the Mac_SA_Secure.sh script from <http://boinc.berkeley.edu/mac_build/Mac_SA_Secure.sh>. This does require using Terminal. Cheers, --Charlie On Sep 28, 2017, at 10:56 AM, Richard Haselgrove <r.haselgr...@btopenworld.com> wrote: > Another urgent one is client: eliminate possible buffer overflow in reporting > result errors, which has caught out a lot of CPDN users because of a faulty > batch of tasks (80e12bf571868896f608d68252dcfe31d1d24104). > We now have a Mac user unfamiliar with using terminal, who is unable to > extricate themselves from the problem which prevents the boinc client > starting. > Charlie, if you're able to help? - > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=11853&postid=81619#81619 > > On Thursday, 28 September 2017, 8:19, Charlie Fenton > <charl...@ssl.berkeley.edu> wrote: > > > My BOINC screensaver fix for Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra is urgent and critical. > But it can't wait for 7.10, and neither should the fix for slot directory > cleanup. These two changes should go in a more immediate 7.8.3 release. > > I expect that releasing 7.10 to the public will take longer because it will > have far more extensive changes and so require more testing and possibly more > rounds of bug fixes. > > The Mac screensaver fix includes changes to both the screensaver coordinator > and tolibboinc_graphics2.a. All projects who have graphics apps will then > need to rebuild them with the new library and distribute them to all their > users, or at least those running OS 10.13. So we need to get my changes > deployed as quickly as possible. > > Cheers, > --Charlie > > -- > Charlie Fenton > > > > On Sep 27, 2017, at 9:33 PM, David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu> wrote: > >> It's clear that we need to start testing for a 7.10 release soon. >> I'll go ahead and make a client_release/7/7.10 branch >> unless anyone has an important PR planned. >> -- David >> _______________________________________________ >> boinc_dev mailing list >> boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu >> https://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 > boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu > https://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 > boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu > https://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 boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
