I'm installing BOINC on a new i5 box running Gentoo Linux. (Gentoo compiles everything from source; this box is ~amd64 and has installed sci-misc/boinc-6.10.18.) Installation goes fine, but when I run "/etc/init.d/boinc attach", as instructed by the post-inst instructions, I get an immediate "can't connect to localhost". The graphics card is a (PNY) Quadro FX580.

I can't remember what I did to a previous installation to escape from this; can anyone remind me, please?

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Rgds
Peter.

...but when I run "/etc/init.d/boinc attach", as instructed by the post-inst instructions...

Wouldn't that be

boinc --attach_project <URL> <key>

? did you try boinc --help or better boinc_cmd --help?

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

The Gentoo installation system enables the installation process to print messages on the terminal at various stages including at the end. It also includes a startup script to cause the program to be started at boot time; this is /etc/init.d/boinc. The instructions told me to attach to a project by running "/etc/init.d/boinc attach", which prompted me to enter the URL and then the key. Of course I did that, but I got the error I quoted.

I tried calling boinc directly as you suggest, and it enabled me to attach - thanks. BOINC is now running happily.

I'd better raise a bug on the Gentoo implementation, or at least its instructions.

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Rgds
Peter

The instructions told me to attach to a project by running "/etc/init.d/boinc attach", which prompted me to enter the URL and then the key.

By tradition and convention Unix init scripts should be run non-interactive, and running it with this "attach" argument violates this. When you report this bug to Gentoo please remind them of this. The script is used to start the daemon, and then the user runs the manager (GUI interface) and selects attach and provides the URL of the project. Thank you for feeding this info back to the Gentoo folks.

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