#498 closed Defect (worksforme)
Message "Another instance of BOINC is running"
| Reported by: | elfring | Owned by: | davea |
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| Priority: | Minor | Milestone: | 5.10 |
| Component: | Client - Daemon | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
A couple of discussions can be found for the notice "Another instance of BOINC is running". I get it almost always when the command "nice -n 3 /usr/local/BOINC/run_client > /usr/local/BOINC/run_client.log 2>&1 &" is executed from within my script ".profile".
The log is usually continued with the notice "Starting BOINC client version 5.10.21 for i686-pc-linux-gnu" on my openSUSE system.
I wonder if the file "lockfile" will ever be automatically deleted on program exit. Are there any open issues with proper resource clean-up?
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed 17 years ago by
| Resolution: | → worksforme |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:2 Changed 17 years ago by
Also note that file locking doesn't work over a network filesystem.
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The Linux version uses file locking; the existence of "lockfile" doesn't matter, a process holding a lock on it does.
Please verify that there really is no other instance of BOINC running when you do run_client