Hi,

I reboot rather seldom, but after the last reboot my XP machine does not run BOINC with Rosetta anymore (running just Rosetta). After launching the BOINC Client it just says connecting to localhost and seems to stop at that point (Can only kill the process).
Any suggestions?

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The latest recommended version (5.2.13) is supposed to be a bit better than previous versions in this area, updating may help. If the problem persists you can manually restart the manager after the boot process is finished. You can also install as a service and BOINC will run without a manager.

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It think I tried everything now and nothing works:
Uninstalling and reinstalling, manually deleting all files (including all the registry settings I found), fresh Install into other directories all with an older and the latest version, even tried an optimized client, virus-checks
But always just the same thing - starts only the manager and that freezes after about 1/3 sec while "connecting to localhost".
Does anyone know which port it uses to connect there?
Any other help?

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Depending on the versions of BOINC:

Port 1043
Port 31416

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Supporting BOINC, a great concept !

This is a list of things you can try,,,,,......

Do you have BOINC starting at boot? If so delete it from windows startup and reboot, that works for some people...

OK, the disconnected issue means that the BOINC manager is not able to talk to the BOINC daemon. Whether or not you are uploading/downloading/crunching at this point must be determined with the task list (I do not remember how to bring this up for 95/98/me).
The usual reason for this problem is that the BOINC manager is starting and trying to talk before the BOINC daemon is ready to listen. The usual fix is to wait a minute or two and see if connecting to "" or "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" works.
If the above fails, then there is a possibility that the BOINC daemon is not starting. If that is the case, then staring it manually may help. If it is installed as a service, run "net start BOINC" from a command line. If it is installed as single or multi user, cd to the install directory, and run BOINC.exe. If it is now running, you are the victim of a bug that has hopefully been fixed in 5.1.
If it is still not working, you have a problem with one of the XML files, and you will probably have to delete the directory and start over. (I have seen this problem much less with 5.1).
You might also go to the BOINC folder and look for this file "gui rpc auth.cfg" open with word pad and change the password to one you like make sure you enter a return at the end and then save and reboot computer then try the local host entry in select computer popup..... Check your firewall.
When all screens in Boinc Manager are blank, check that Boinc.exe is running. In Windows NT/2k/XP, rightclick on the Windows taskbar and choose Task Manager. Go to the processes tab and check if Boinc.exe is running. Check how many versions of Boincmgr.exe there are running.

If more than 2 of the latter, close them all down and restart one.
If Boinc.exe isn't running, please try a reboot of the computer first.

Close down BOINC as far as it is running.
Navigate to your Boinc directory.
Find the file called gui_rpc_auth.cfg and delete it.
Then restart BOINC.
That will most probably fix it.

(When you revert back to 4.45 you need to delete this file as well!)

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