I am running 6.10.58 on a fresh ubuntu 10.10 desktop install.

I connect through a socks 5 proxy.

I have other boinc clients that can connect through the proxy okay.

On the same machine as the boinc client I can run firefox with the same socks proxy settings and it connects and can browse the web okay.

My boinc client can not connect however.

I have turned on the log_flags around http and proxy but I can not see anything that would help me solve the proxy.

Any ideas?

06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] Config: GUI RPC allowed from:
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task, file_xfer_debug, http_debug, proxy_debug
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.21.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8o zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.18
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] Processor: 6.00 MB cache
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 xsave lahf_l
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] OS: Linux: 2.6.35-23-generic
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] Memory: 2.95 GB physical, 11.72 GB virtual
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] Disk: 446.92 GB total, 421.62 GB free
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] Local time is UTC +13 hours
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] No usable GPUs found
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] Reading preferences override file
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] Preferences:
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---]    max memory usage when active: 1511.45MB
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---]    max memory usage when idle: 2720.61MB
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---]    max disk usage: 10.00GB
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---]    don't use GPU while active
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---]    suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---]    (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] [http_debug] HTTP_OP::init_get(): http://boinc.berkeley.edu/project_list.php
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] [proxy_debug] HTTP_OP::no_proxy_for_url(): http://boinc.berkeley.edu/project_list.php
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] [proxy_debug] returning false
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] Using proxy info from GUI
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] Using SOCKS proxy x.x.x.x:12345
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] This computer is not attached to any projects
06-Dec-2010 09:02:19 [---] Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions
Initialization completed
06-Dec-2010 09:02:20 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Info:  About to connect() to boinc.berkeley.edu port 80 (#0)
06-Dec-2010 09:02:20 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Info:    Trying 128.32.18.189... 
06-Dec-2010 09:02:20 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Info:  No route to host
06-Dec-2010 09:02:20 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Info:  Failed connect to boinc.berkeley.edu:80; No child processes
06-Dec-2010 09:02:20 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Info:  Expire cleared
06-Dec-2010 09:02:20 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Info:  Closing connection #0
06-Dec-2010 09:02:20 [---] [http_debug] HTTP error: Couldn't connect to server
06-Dec-2010 09:02:49 [---] Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
06-Dec-2010 09:02:49 [---] [http_debug] HTTP_OP::init_get(): http://www.google.com/
06-Dec-2010 09:02:49 [---] [proxy_debug] HTTP_OP::no_proxy_for_url(): http://www.google.com/
06-Dec-2010 09:02:49 [---] [proxy_debug] returning false
06-Dec-2010 09:02:50 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Info:  About to connect() to proxy x.x.x.x port 12345 (#0)
06-Dec-2010 09:02:50 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Info:    Trying x.x.x.x... 
06-Dec-2010 09:02:50 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Info:  Connected to x.x.x.x (x.x.x.x) port 12345 (#0)
06-Dec-2010 09:02:50 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Sent header to server: GET / HTTP/1.1
06-Dec-2010 09:02:50 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (i686-pc-linux-gnu 6.10.58)
06-Dec-2010 09:02:50 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Host: www.google.com
06-Dec-2010 09:02:50 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept: */*
06-Dec-2010 09:02:50 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
06-Dec-2010 09:02:50 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
06-Dec-2010 09:02:50 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Sent header to server: 
06-Dec-2010 09:02:50 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Info:  Expire cleared
06-Dec-2010 09:02:50 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Info:  Empty reply from server
06-Dec-2010 09:02:50 [---] [http_debug] [ID#0] Info:  Connection #0 to host www.google.com left intact
06-Dec-2010 09:02:50 [---] [http_debug] HTTP error: Server returned nothing (no headers, no data)
06-Dec-2010 09:02:51 [---] BOINC can't access Internet - check network connection or proxy configuration.

I now run proxychains, getting it to supply the socksification, and get it to run boinc without using the socks proxy option and it can connect okay.

Something seems broken in the boinc socks proxy handling.