Hey all, I have Fedora Core 2 with Linux Kernel 2.6.8, BOINC 4.13 for Linux, SETI core 4.02. Now, I ran it. I shut down the computer, rebooted later on, ran BOINC, but I always get a "Another instance of BOINC is already running" when it actually isn't. It's not in ps -ef, and my CPU is showing no activity from BOINC..

Any remedies? Thanks!

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Sounds to me as though you have a stale lockfile that isn't being cleaned up. Get rid of the invalid lockfile and you'll be good to go.

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> Sounds to me as though you have a stale lockfile that isn't being cleaned up.
> Get rid of the invalid lockfile and you'll be good to go.
>

Thanks, that worked, but totally deleted my user info (I had to re-enter the URL, and key of the project) and I haev to do it everytime. The message keeps coming up. Really odd, annoying, too.

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> > Get rid of the invalid lockfile and you'll be good to go.
> >
>
> Thanks, that worked, but totally deleted my user info (I had to re-enter the
> URL, and key of the project) and I haev to do it everytime. The message keeps
> coming up. Really odd, annoying, too.

Something doesn't sound right. How are you running BOINC on your system? In my case, I have it installed in my home directory (/home/trane/boinc) and run it as a cron job (0 0-23 * * * cd /home/trane/boinc/ ; ./boinc_4.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu >> /home/trane/boinc/boinclog 2>> /home/trane/boinc/boincerr). Note that I have the job 'cd' into the boinc directory beforehand so that it can find its account*.xml files and associated directory structure. Also note that since I'm running this as a local user, the crontab entry was created under my local user account and has my local user privs.

Any of that helpful to you?

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> > > Get rid of the invalid lockfile and you'll be good to go.
> > >
> >
> > Thanks, that worked, but totally deleted my user info (I had to re-enter
> the
> > URL, and key of the project) and I haev to do it everytime. The message
> keeps
> > coming up. Really odd, annoying, too.
>
> Something doesn't sound right. How are you running BOINC on your system? In my
> case, I have it installed in my home directory (/home/trane/boinc) and run it
> as a cron job (0 0-23 * * * cd /home/trane/boinc/ ;
> ./boinc_4.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu >> /home/trane/boinc/boinclog 2>>
> /home/trane/boinc/boincerr). Note that I have the job 'cd' into the boinc
> directory beforehand so that it can find its account*.xml files and associated
> directory structure. Also note that since I'm running this as a local user,
> the crontab entry was created under my local user account and has my local
> user privs.
>

I'm running it in my home directory. I run it in xterm, as:

cd boinc
./boinc


> Any of that helpful to you?
>
>
>

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> I'm running it in my home directory. I run it in xterm, as:
>
> cd boinc
> ./boinc

Okay. What about directory perms for the boinc directory? They should look something like: drwxr-xr-x, with your login/executor ID being the directory owner. Subsequently, your account*.xml files should have owner-only read-write perms(-rw-------) on 'em.

I'm running out of ideas here ...

trane

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