Yum installed Boinc doesn't work- Fedora 11 & 6.6.37

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toddbailey

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Message 30585 - Posted: 18 Jan 2010, 20:05:01 UTC

I recently installed Boinc from fedora yum
And when I try to run, it tries to connect but ends up as disconnected. I also tried to connect manually, using local host and my or rott passwd still can't connect or add any projects.

On a side note: The version I installed via script 6.6.17 runs as expected.


Any ideas on what I need to do to fix ?


thanks
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Message 30609 - Posted: 21 Jan 2010, 6:52:42 UTC - in response to Message 30589.  

thanks, all I needed was the install/setup doc to get going
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Message 30702 - Posted: 27 Jan 2010, 7:46:55 UTC - in response to Message 30617.  

Well, still doesn't work.

I (un/re) installed a couple of times just to make sure I was doing everything right.

Basically boincmgr hangs at startup, I see the gui but nothing works
menu items tabs etc all frozen.

the boinc demon is running and my login is a member of the boinc group but...

Appl doesn't even close, I have to kill the process manually

What a pain... suggestions?
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Message 30717 - Posted: 28 Jan 2010, 7:43:40 UTC - in response to Message 30702.  
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looks like reboot fixed the dead gui issue but still the initial problem remains.

When I try to connect to localhost, it pauses a minute while stating "connecting to localhost" then finally says disconnected.

I added myself to /usr/sbin/usermod -G boinc -a username
and also set a password in /var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg

as outlined in the read me but still no work

btw: the yum version of boinc gui is 6.4.7

any ideas?
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Les Bayliss
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Message 30718 - Posted: 28 Jan 2010, 8:36:54 UTC - in response to Message 30717.  

There are several threads on the site about this behaviour when there's a LARGE number of WUs in the queue.

There's a button in newer versions of BOINC to cure this.

Have a read of this thread for more details.

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Message 30720 - Posted: 28 Jan 2010, 17:00:07 UTC - in response to Message 30717.  

Well, I spoke too soon GUI is still dead on startup.

Unless someone has a solution, I'll un-install this turkey.

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Message 30769 - Posted: 2 Feb 2010, 23:36:03 UTC - in response to Message 30721.  


interesting, but I'm not running a firewall.
And even if I were, why does the Linux version I downloaded and installed from the download site work and the yum version does not?

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Message 30771 - Posted: 3 Feb 2010, 0:07:16 UTC - in response to Message 30769.  

The Fedora version is not maintained by this site.
You'll need to find the Fedora maintainer, and ask her/him.

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