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The Advanced Preferences dialog shows the BOINC defaults modified by the override file, instead of the working preferences (defaults modified by global prefs modified by the overrides).

This is highly confusing since it lies about the current preferences - so I've flagged it as critical.

Also, what happened to the preference mask? The original behaviour of the dialog preferences was only to save values that differed from the global preferences. Now, it appears that all the preferences are saved in the state shown by the dialog (which can have unforeseen side effects due to the bug above).

Few Clients try to download work which is already deleted on the server.

Maybe the Client PC is shutdown at the same time where it was downloading new work. At the restart of the PC, the work was already calculated by another client an deleted on the server. But the restartet Client already tries to download the file and falls in a endless loop.

The Client should abort the download and download another file if this happens

(sorry for my bad englisch, i hope you understand what i wants to say)

I recently downloaded some VTU WUs. These were in my cache, awaiting the completion of other project WUs.

One morning I awoke to find BOINC Manager had crashed. Trying to restart BOINC Manager, caused my "attached projects" list to be displayed for about 2 seconds and then they ALL disappeared. Likewise, there were no messages and the graphics were shoing I wasn't attached to anything.

Likewise, BOINC Manager refused to connect to "localhost", claiming that it couldn't connect,

I restarted BOINC and attempted to "suspend" both running network activity, but BOINC Manager refused to allow me to stop either before it caused the projects list to disappear.

I tried to change my preferences, but this didn't work as the preferences I set were ignored and restored immediately to the default settings.

So, I uninstalled the v5.10.18 I was running and installed v5.10.20. Same problem.

I then edited the registry and removed all traces of BOINC client, and then moved the BOINC folder elsewhere and re-installed. Same problem.

I then started looking for help online and someone else had a similar problem on the BOINC Message Board. Jord advised me about a URL change from VTU@home.

So, I edited my client_state.xml file to update to the NEW VTU URL.

This then allowed me to start BOINC normally, and I was then able to detach the VTU project.

So far, after 5 hours of crunching, BOINC Manager is still working properly again.

My original posting on the BOINC Message Forum is answered here:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=2131&nowrap=true#12578

I have my logs, from the various BOINC log files available, so if required I can email them to someone for inspection.

I've lost approx 3 full days of crunching due to this...as well as missing a few deadlines !!

It even got to the point where I thought I had to re-install the Windows Winsock, even though everything else was working on the PC !!

regards

Tim System: Pentium P4/HT @ 3GHz, 1GB RAM, 40GB HDD, Windows XP Pro