Tip: on Linux x86_64, if boinc 7.2.42 keeps dying with "buffer overflow" or "segmentation violation"


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Message 71522 - Posted: 13 Aug 2016, 1:16:17 UTC

... you can try the following:

  • stop boinc: 
    service boinc-client stop

  • become user boinc or root and go to /var/lib/boinc/ (or whatever working directory your boinc installation is configured to use)

  • move the two "client_state" files out of the way: 
    mv client_state.xml      client_state.xml.old
mv client_state_prev.xml client_state_prev.xml.old

  • restart boinc: 
    service boinc-client start

and check whether it now works as expected.


Found out on OpenSuSE 13.2 with kernel 3.16.7-35-desktop and glibc-2.19-16.25.1.x86_64, where boinc 7.2.42 always ran into 

...
13-Aug-2016 02:43:59 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
13-Aug-2016 02:43:59 [---] Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress
*** buffer overflow detected ***: boinc terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib64/libc.so.6(+0x7278f)[0x7f9a4e9d378f]
...


Hope this helps others having this.
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