Boinc manager not reporting tasks details macOS 13.3.1

[JeromeC2023]

I just upgraded my Intel iMac (one of the latest late 2020) from macOS 12 to latest 13.3.1.

System is working fine and I didn't experience any flaw but Boinc Manager 7.20.4 is only listing the tasks and their status, but not anymore the run time / % / remaining / deadline... I see only 0 or --- instead of numbers and %.

All the text looks OK : project name, application name, task name, status.

BoincTasks Js is doing the job, though.

I reinstalled boinc (7.20.4) but same behavior.

[CharlieFenton]

I’m out of town and will look at this next week.

[JeromeC2023]

I forgot to mention that the data usage tab and statistical tab are just empty.

(I do have plenty of asteroid credits, I have the same display regardless the project I choose)

[JeromeC2023]

... and same for the project tab, I have the project list and the proper status, but no figures.

The notifications tab is OK, the problem is with figures.

[CharlieFenton]

I don't have an Intel Mac, but on my Apple Silicon Mac I can reproduce this on almost every language which I have tried (French, German, Italian, Greek, Danish, Dutch, Spanish, Russian.) But none of these problems occur when the language is set to English, Hebrew or Chinese. I will investigate further.

[CharlieFenton]

I believe I have found the problem and will release a hot fix within the next few days.

[JeromeC2023]

Thanks guy ! any idea of when boinc 7.22.x will be released ?

[CharlieFenton]

@JeromeC2023 BONC 22.0.7 is now available for download. Please let us know if you still have this problem.

Note: There is also a screensaver bug under MacOS13.3.1 that is widely reported, and apparently has no workaround. If you have multiple displays connected to the computer, the screensaver usually does not appear on the main display. (The bug is intermittent, so it does occasionally appear on the main monitor.) Since the BOINC screensaver uses only the main display, it does not appear at all on Macs with multiple screens. Apple will reportedly fix this in the next release of macOS.

[JeromeC2023]

Hello, I see a 7.20.7 published yesterday on boinc website for "Apple Mac (64-bit Intel and Apple Silicon)", could it be the "22.0.7" and/or the "7.22.1" mentioned above ? (I must confess I'm completely confused)

If the answer is "none of them", where can I download the good one to test ?

Regarding boinc screensaver on mac, it's been years I don't use it on my mac, and I only have my iMac main display.

[AenBleidd]

@JeromeC2023, this is exactly 7.20.7 hotfix for MacOS only. You can download it here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

[JeromeC2023]

Thanks, actually I had downloaded that 7.20.7 version from the official website just after I wrote this (and then went for dinner) and now I just installed and tested it : it is solving the issue in tabs tasks / projects / statistics, great !!

But in "data usage" tab all is still empty though.

[CharlieFenton]

BONC 22.0.7 is now available for download.

Sorry for the typo. (I don't know how that came out of my fingers.) That should be 7.20.7.

[CharlieFenton]

But in "data usage" tab all is still empty though.

@JeromeC2023 It works for me on my Apple Silicon iMac under MacOS 13.3.1. I set my computers region to France and language to French , and set BOINC Manager to French. Here is what I see:

[JeromeC2023]

The statistic tab is OK

the issue is with the data usage tab

either I have this

but I also noted it got me disconnected from the client or even crashing when staying on this tab, or (sometimes, not always) even having irrational behaviour of the other tabs after living this tab (completely blank with no content)

and now after my latest restart of boinc I also got this display

so yes it is weird.

But again, I can live without :)

Last I note a strange display from the task you can notice some of the rows with bold characters

but only when boinc manager window does not have the focus, as soon as I click in the window (inside the grid on a row) then no more bold rows.

In the project tab I have a similar but different behaviour :

but depending on where I click inside the grid, the bold may, or not, disappear

Weird but again, no real issue.

[JeromeC2023]

To complete the information, with macOS version 7.22.1 published 9th May, even some remaining display glitches (with strange "variable bold rows") were solved.

Data usage tab is still blank (empty circles). Not a big deal.