Sorry, I was away and disabled email delivery. This is my response in context.
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Bill Flynn <wfly...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > We think the problem actually stems from the sandboxed permissions of > boinc_project and boinc_master when Boinc is installed as a service on > Windows. Doing > > net localgroup administrators > > neither boinc_master nor boinc_project were listed. So we added > > net localgroup administrators boinc_master /add > net localgroup administrators boinc_project /add > > to our install script and things worked fine after a restart. I think it's > because each time the wrapper tried to communicate with the client, it didn't > have permissions to do so, and would exit; but then the client would see it > has a free CPU and would restart the job until we hit the 100 retry maximum. > As an administrator, the boinc_* user running the wrapper can properly > communicate with the client. We are only running our own project, so I we're > not too concerned with the security implications of elevating the privileges > of the two boinc_* users. > > I had tried redownloading the wrappers from the WrapperApp site, but they > didn't solve the problem. We also tried using the wrappers that come with > the debian7 virtualbox server; those didn't work either. > > Thanks, > > Bill > Bill: It looks like you're using an old version of the wrapper, which had a bug causing the problem you're seeing. This is fixed in the current version:http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/WrapperApp -- David On 25-Sep-2014 10:02 AM, Bill Flynn wrote: >* Hello, *>>* We have developed molecular dynamics code which we would like to distribute *>* to unused Windows 7 machines at our university. The code was originally *>* developed in Linux but we have recently compiled on Windows using Mingw. *>* We are distributing the app using the Boinc Wrapper. *>>* For both Windows clients where Boinc was not installed as a service and *>* Linux clients where software was installed via apt-get (or similar), the *>* app works well and returns successful results. However, for Windows *>* clients where Boinc was installed as a service, the workunits fail 95+% of *>* the time with the following error message: *>* 10:29:37 (2352): wrapper: starting *>* 10:29:38 (2352): wrapper: running ../../projects/ *>* XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/impact_1.5_windows_x86_64.exe *>* <http://155.247.99.246/impact_1.5_windows_x86_64.exe <http://155.247.99.246/impact_1.5_windows_x86_64.exe>> (md.inp) *>* 10:29:49 (2352): BOINC client no longer exists - exiting *>* This repeats 100 times until the job returns unsuccessfully with an *>* EXIT_CHILD_FAILED or ERR_TOO_MANY_EXITS error. *>>* I have tested this on several machines with fresh Windows installations *>* where Boinc (7.2.42 Windows 64 bit) is installed as a service. Given the *>* list of possible issues here ( *>* http://boincfaq.mundayweb.com/index.php?view=116 <http://boincfaq.mundayweb.com/index.php?view=116>), I tried all possible *>* configurations of disabled anti-virus, disabled Windows time *>* synchronization, and disabled drive indexing with the service *>* installation. None of them fix the problem. We also run with 50% CPUs *>* used with no throttling. We have tested these clients with other projects *>* which have native Boinc applications, and they run fine. Therefore, we *>* think it is a interaction problem between the Boinc wrapper and Boinc *>* client service installation on Windows. *>>* Speaking of which, are the wrappers found here ( *>* http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/WrapperApp <http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/WrapperApp>) up to date? *>>* We are forced to run Boinc as a service in order to use these machines *>* (university computer lab/library) and are several weeks/months away from *>* getting around to restructuring our code to accommodate the Boinc API. *>>* Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this issue? I have attached the *>* following files: job.xml, input_template, output_template, version.xml, and *>* stderr.txt (from an example job). *>>* Thanks, *>>* Bill *>>>>* _______________________________________________ *>* boinc_dev mailing list *>* boinc_dev at ssl.berkeley.edu <http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev> *>* http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev <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 boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
