NEW: WINDOWS TEST APPLICATION FOR EINSTEIN@HOME

jdashton
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Greetings to all, I'm

Greetings to all,

I'm still not getting the EaH graphics, even though I've been running 0.18 since it became available. What can I do to troubleshoot this problem? I will be happy to post or e-mail any logs or messages as you may request.

Kind regards,

Daniel

Walt Gribben
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RE: Greetings to all, I'm

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Greetings to all,

I'm still not getting the EaH graphics, even though I've been running 0.18 since it became available. What can I do to troubleshoot this problem? I will be happy to post or e-mail any logs or messages as you may request.

Kind regards,

Daniel

Daniel,

I send you a reply in email, did you not get it? I'll resend it to make sure.

The gist of it is that the "Failed to open checkpoint-file for writing. Exiting." is from some other application interfering with BOINC (and Einstein). It also is the cause for the "couldn't write state file" messages.

Check your firewall/anti-virus/file backup software to make sure BOINC is excluded, and that the software is up to date.

The graphics is another issue. What happens when you click "Show graphics"? What happens when you click the "preview" button when setting the BOINC screensaver? If the starsphere doesn't come up, perhaps you need newer drivers for your graphics card.

Walt

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Walt, I thought you also

Walt,

I thought you also might be interested in this thread.

Stick

Walt Gribben
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RE: Walt, I thought you

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Walt,

I thought you also might be interested in this thread.

Stick

Thanks, I saw it and replied.

Did you get the email I sent last week? Apparently a bunch "went missing" when I used the wrong "reply-to" address.

Walt

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RE: Thanks, I saw it and

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Thanks, I saw it and replied.

Saw your post. This one was interesting to me because of the "Semaphore" errors that were not in the Wiki. I was wondering if they were, indeed, "graphics bug" related.

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Did you get the email I sent last week? Apparently a bunch "went missing" when I used the wrong "reply-to" address.

Walt

Not sure! But, I just sent you an e-mail which should help you figure it out.

Bruce Allen
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RE: I was just now

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I was just now rereading the Einstein@Home Beta Testing page and I noticed that, although there are good instructions for installing the Beta application, there aren't any instructions for uninstalling it. And, somehow, I doubt that reading the install instructions backwards will work very well.


Please delete app_info.xml or rename it, for example to app_info_saved.xml .

Director, Einstein@Home

Bruce Allen
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Just an update -- for the

Just an update -- for the past couple of months we have been preparing a new and better (more sensitive -- can see farther) search code. This incorporates all the good changes from the Windows Beta test app. Currently we have not yet started distributing this new search code and newly prepared S4 data because we are having trouble getting the new validator to work correctly. But hopefullly this will be fixed soon and then E@H users will be getting a new app with all the fixes, plus more data and a more sensitive search.

Thanks for your patience. It's hard work to get all the BOINC bits to work properly together.

Cheers,
Bruce

Director, Einstein@Home

Robert Laughlin
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RE: Just an update -- for

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Just an update -- for the past couple of months we have been preparing a new and better (more sensitive -- can see farther) search code. This incorporates all the good changes from the Windows Beta test app. Currently we have not yet started distributing this new search code and newly prepared S4 data because we are having trouble getting the new validator to work correctly. But hopefullly this will be fixed soon and then E@H users will be getting a new app with all the fixes, plus more data and a more sensitive search.

Thanks for your patience. It's hard work to get all the BOINC bits to work properly together.

Cheers,
Bruce

Quick question - will the more sensitive code be only used on new S4 data, or can it be used to recheck older data too?

regards
Robert Laughlin

Neil
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hi finally tried the beta

hi finally tried the beta versin after moving it to the correct folder the einstein screesaver appeared to be working now
neil

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RE: Just an update -- for

Message 13133 in response to message 13130

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Just an update -- for the past couple of months we have been preparing a new and better (more sensitive -- can see farther) search code. This incorporates all the good changes from the Windows Beta test app. Currently we have not yet started distributing this new search code and newly prepared S4 data because we are having trouble getting the new validator to work correctly. But hopefullly this will be fixed soon and then E@H users will be getting a new app with all the fixes, plus more data and a more sensitive search.

Thanks for your patience. It's hard work to get all the BOINC bits to work properly together.

Cheers,
Bruce

Thanks for the update Bruce. We all know ya'll are working very hard. Keep up the good work!

Kathryn

Kathryn :o)

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