OS: Lion

After follow the steps to the letter, including running the sudo script with the following conformation:

walt:~ timrogers$ sh ./EnablingVirtualBox.sh timrogers admin
Checking if there is a BOINC client running...
BOINC is not runnig...
Setting up the BOINC installation ...
Enabling BOINC to work with VirtualBox...
override r-xr-xr-x timrogers/admin for /Applications/BOINCManager.app/Contents/MacOS/BOINCManager.virtualbox? (y/n [n]) y
mv: rename /Applications/BOINCManager.app/Contents/MacOS/BOINCManager to /Applications/BOINCManager.app/Contents/MacOS/BOINCManager.virtualbox: Permission denied
BOINC set up correctly.
walt:~ timrogers$

I tried running the Boinc manager which gives the following status:

Processing Suspended: Benchmarks Running...
Retrieving Current Status...
(ERROR) No work available to process…

I thought Bonic would download a couple of files for the VB to run at least - but nothing.

I have deleted reinstalled everything again - but no luck


Any ideas?

Retrieving Current Status...(ERROR) No work available to process…

That is a useful link - thanks. I guess what I'm really looking for is a way to confirm that my setup is working.

Even if there are no jobs to run at present, shouldn't there be a disk image or something downloading for the virtualbox?

Tim,

Your computer is requesting work and has in fact received several tasks.
They've all crashed with a Compute Error within 20 seconds of starting. Another Mac user is in exactly the same boat you are in and getting exactly the same errors you are, namely "VBoxManage: error: Failed to initialize COM!".

Please read this thread and my last message to xSprinterx. It will explain a lot, I hope. Maybe keep an eye on that thread to see if someone posts a solution to both your problems.

All seems good! It flickered into life Saturday night!


Work done 301.00

Excellent! Glad to hear that :-)

.. though nothing since. The odd thing was that it did through up a message saying it couldn't find the VM.. and when I look the VM (all 14gb of it) had gone. Created a new one but I think I'm going to try installing the manager again.. All very odd.

.. though nothing since. The odd thing was that it did through up a message saying it couldn't find the VM.. and when I look the VM (all 14gb of it) had gone. Created a new one but I think I'm going to try installing the manager again.. All very odd.

Yes - believe it or not I am aware you can't see my screen. If I'd intended to give you a detailed report of the problem rather then an overview I would have.

However, I believe it was BOINCManager that threw up the error that it could not find the virtualMachine. Something along the lines of 'Error cant find VirtualMachine at /path/.../etc. When I looked at the path the VM that I created before (which worked fine) had gone from the folder. So, as before, I created another one (blank, no OS). There have been no jobs available since so I cant report of the effectiveness of the measure.

However, I believe it was BOINCManager that threw up the error that it could not find the virtualMachine. Something along the lines of 'Error cant find VirtualMachine at /path/.../etc.

Hi Jord,

You are probably right - I was a little preoccupied with other work at the time so I didn't take much notice. As you say its still pretty buggy so we can't be to hard on it - and even so it is still an impressive bit of software.

installed virtual box and restarted previously installed boinc (checked most recent version)

downloads T4T work unit but it never runs

suggestions?

Hi Marc and welcome to the project.

Your list of T4T tasks confirms you did receive a task. It might take a while for it to start. Has it started yet? If not then perhaps you have T4T suspended in your list of projects in BOINC manager or perhaps suspended the task accidentally.

Did you run the Enabling VirtualBox script mentioned in item 2 on this page?

I had not run the install virtual box script before

But I have now and reinstalled boinc and T4T still doesn't run

Left it overnight and it has a high project share, should have run if it could.

At this point I'm frankly un-inclined to spend more time on this. Not that important to me, I'll just wait until it's ready for primetime

Marc

Thanks for your interest in T4T. If you wish to wait and participate at a later date then you are very welcome to resume work on the project at that time.

I just want to inform you that the task in question did run but crashed shortly after it started. It appears a few other tasks were issued to your computer but they crashed too.

T4T runs very well after you get past the install procedure. Since you did not run the enabling script, previous tasks have crashed and left a few files that should normally be cleaned up. If you follow the cleanup procedure in the first post in the "VirtualMachine cleanup" thread in the Number Crunching section of the main message board, the next task you receive probably won't crash.

Before you do that, however, I would like to check to make sure the enabling script ran properly. The "your username" parameter must not have any spaces in it therefore if your username is Joe Smith, for example, you should use the short form of your username which would be Joe in this example.

If there is no output from the enabling script, that means it encountered an error. If it runs correctly it will say something like "VirtualBox is now enabled".

I don't think it's necessary to reinstall BOINC or VirtualBax at this time but if you do reinstall VirtualBox you must run the enabling script again.

If you don't want to put more time into this I suggest setting T4T to No New Tasks or detaching from T4T.

couldn't find the relevant folder to delete on my Mac in step 4 of the cleanup procedure

I will ask Bill & Patsy to help you. I run Linux not OS X and now I am at the limit of my knowlege about setting up T4T on OS X. Bill & Patsy are experienced, very helpful OS X users.

couldn't find the relevant folder to delete on my Mac in step 4 of the cleanup procedure

I followed your instructions and....there is nothing running in VirtualBox to remove.

I followed your instructions and....there is nothing running in VirtualBox to remove.

I had not run the install virtual box script before

But I have now and reinstalled boinc and T4T still doesn't run

It does indeed seem to have done the trick. Not sure if it was the original sequence (I've had Boinc running for years) or something else.

Thanks

It does indeed seem to have done the trick. Not sure if it was the original sequence (I've had Boinc running for years) or something else.

Thanks

That's good news, Marc. May I suggest looking at the first post in the "Configuration tips for BOINC and Test4Theory" thread in Number Crunching. As you can see, T4T is not your average BOINC project and tips in that post might help.

new issue - when I turn BOINC off and then restart there is an error message about ownership and permissions. also says to reinstall boinc

I had never seen this before adding T4T to Boinc

thoughts?

new issue - when I turn BOINC off and then restart there is an error message about ownership and permissions. also says to reinstall boinc

I had never seen this before adding T4T to Boinc

thoughts?

nope, it's never moved from the default install location