Update to 7.4.36 Fails
21 Jan 2015 22:58:23 UTC
Topic 197942
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I have been running v.7.2.42 on Windows 7 Enterprise machine (Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+) for a while now and updated to 7.4.36 when it first came out. After install and startup, I got the following message: "BOINC Manager is not able to start a BOINC client. Please launch the Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services applet and start the BOINC service." When I browse to the Services applet, however, BOINC is not listed. At the time I just uninstalled 7.4.36 and re-installed the old version hoping things would be fixed later. I just attempted to re-install to no avail. Advice?
Update to 7.4.36 Fails
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Are you using the Boinc defaults when you install or are you making some changes? Are you trying to do a 'service' install? Are you trying to install Boinc with 'vbox'? Did you choose the 64 bit version to try and install?
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I use the defaults, I'm not doing a service install, I did include virtualbox, and I did download the 64 bit. I just did an uninstall and re-install using the BOINC software and I'm getting the same message.
RE: Are you using the Boinc
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Upon trying to re-install 7.2.42 I am now getting a message "Error 1324. The path IONE??? contains an invalid character" and then the install wizard fails.
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You will probably need to use Regedit to clean up the path name(s) in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley\BOINC Setup
or simply delete the whole 'BOINC setup' registry key and start fresh - do check the settings carefully, and make sure they suit your environment, as you go through the re-install after that.
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I ended up going through the re-install process for 7.4.36 and when it asked for the program directory I found there were several Chinese characters in the last folder of the directory listing which I deleted and then everything worked fine.