Posts by Kara Jade

1) Message boards : Number crunching : [Solved] How to repair permissions error -1202 :) (Message 70071) Posted 19 Apr 2011 by Kara Jade Post: So I'm running Mac OSX on my Macbook with recently-buffed 4GB memory (yaaaay), and I rebooted the computer after the wireless started acting up. The wireless came back fine, but BOINC threw a fit. This was the second time that I've gotten an error when BOINC restarts after a computer reboot - something about a "permissions error -1202", and suggested detaching/reattaching to projects or reinstalling BOINC or something. When I looked in the stderrgui.txt file, it seemed that BOINC was choking on accessing boinc_lockfile in the Rosetta project directory. Now, last time I just deleted the blocked files (the files gfx_info stderrgfx.txt, as it happened), as they didn't seem integral. I haven't noticed any problems since, but they never did get rebuilt. But the lockfile? That's something my comp-sci sense tells me is important. So this time I looked at the file info - owner and such, y'know? It said that <my user name> was the file owner. The copy of boinc_lockfile in a Rosetta-active slot, though, said that boinc_project was its owner. Lightbulb! I popped a "sudo chown boinc_project boinc_lockfile" (the change owner command) in the command line and tried again to boot BOINC. It still gave me the -1202 error - but this time, the log file tells me it's choking on something else! Victory! I ended up having to chown stderr.txt to boinc_project and boinc_minirosetta_0 to boinc_master before it grudgingly gave in and began crunching again. I figure that the confused file ownership may have happened because I put BOINC into "snooze mode" before I quit during my reboot prep, but I have no way to tell. I know this worked for me in Mac OSX, so it ought to work exactly the same on a Linux box. I'm not sure how to do the same thing in Windows, and a quick Google hasn't been too helpful; but then again I don't know if the Windows versions of BOINC and Rosetta use the same sort of user permissions setup that the *nix family does. So I hope that this helps other people continue folding with minimal fuss. Have a good one :)
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Newbie Q&A, if you're new, have a view! (Message 69991) Posted 7 Apr 2011 by Kara Jade Post: Colour me surprised! As a last-ditch attempt at a fix before re-installing, I tried deleting the file that was giving me a problem, as well as a second that then gave the same error. BOINC started up perfectly and I'm working again :) I can even see the Rosetta graphics and everything! Thank you for the help ^_^
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Newbie Q&A, if you're new, have a view! (Message 69989) Posted 7 Apr 2011 by Kara Jade Post: I'm running a Macbook, and just joined Rosetta yesterday. It turns out that I had a bad battery in the computer, so when I unplugged it - instant shutdown. Now when I try to start the BOINC Manager, it refuses to start and gives an error: BOINC ownership or permissions are not set properly, please reinstall BOINC. (Error code -1202) When I look at the file stderrgui in the BOINC Data directory, there's a line at the end saying Permissions error -1202 at /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects/boinc.bakerlab.org_rosetta/gfx_info I know that OpenOffice, in similar situations, has refused to let me edit a file I was working on before a crash; when I delete a hidden lock file, it works again. Is there a similar fix that I can make here? If I delete the gfx_info file, will it get rebuilt? Is there anything I can do, short of reinstalling BOINC? If I do need to reinstall BOINC, will it overwrite or abort the tasks I already have downloaded? Thank you!