W xp DF service client

[cygnussphere]

I have one machine that I have installed the client as a service on 86a and the service starts upon reboot but does not do any thing.
I had been running the 96a and previous ver's on this same machine as services with no problems.
What should I be looking for?


- the service client starts on reboot it's priority is set at normal instead of low.
-When I use dfgui to shut the service client down it deletes the foldrite.lock file but the client doesn't stop?
-When I stop the service using task manager and restart using dfgui it runs normally?

[Brian the Fist]

try stopping the service (kill it or whatever) and run foldit from the command line. Then you will see the error/whatever is causing the trouble.

[cygnussphere]

After uninstalling the client as a service I took the comand line from the foldit.bat
foldtrajlite -f protein -n native -df -rt
and ran from the command line and this is what I got.

Handle found. Using (handle). To change, hit 'c' and wait 5 seconds...[NULL_caption] FATAL ERROR: [067:001] FindPath failed in LoadDict Hit Return

[Brian the Fist]

Sounds like you need a re-download and re-install in that case, you seem to be missing file(s) perhaps. You probably did a 'del *.val', didn't you...

[cygnussphere]

I didn't change anything and this morning when I booted the puter it started as a service normally... wierd
I ran it through reboot three times and it started normally.

never mind I guess

Thanks for the help Howard

[cygnussphere]

/bump

just had the same thing happen on my W2000 machine.