graphics_app not being updated

[Ageless]

When one has used the separate BOINC 6 compliant graphics on BOINC 5.10.30 and above, the graphics_app file is made in the slot directory of the running application.

When you now switch applications in the middle of a task (with an anonymous platform file), the softlink is not updated to the new application, when you use the graphics again. Either the link will be deleted, so the graphics_app link points to nothing at all, or it is kept pointing at the old graphics application. If you run multiple tasks at the same time, it can happen that one will continue to show the graphics, while the other shows nothing.

A quick fix for now is to open the graphics_app file with something like Notepad and edit the softlink to point to the correct graphics application.

[Nicolas]

The same could happen with any other softlink where the physical file changed name.

[davea]

abort tasks or reset project prior to switching to/from anonymous platform.