I recently installed BOINC on Fedora Core 5, and it works well except that sometimes the manager freezes - the window doesn't refresh, the menus are unavailable, and it won't even close from KDE. I have to kill the process to stop it, but when started again Manager says "Disconnected." Rebooting seems to get Manager working again. The client is launched separately (before manager) through a cron job, and seems to keep working without manager.
When I restart manager from the command line after a freeze, I get:
[chris@casper BOINC]$ ./run_manager --verbose

Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
Gdk-WARNING **: JISX0208.1983-0
Gdk-WARNING **: KSC5601.1987-0
Gdk-WARNING **: GB2312.1980-0
Gdk-WARNING **: JISX0201.1976-0

send: -1
send: Bad file descriptor
connect: Operation now in progress

and then it sits there frozen. Can anyone suggest a better way to restore this app than to reboot?

Thanks,

Chris

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It looks like you need to kill more than one process. Use ps to see which Boinc related processes are running.

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I recently installed BOINC on Fedora Core 5, and it works well except that sometimes the manager freezes - the window doesn't refresh, the menus are unavailable, and it won't even close from KDE. I have to kill the process to stop it, but when started again Manager says "Disconnected." Rebooting seems to get Manager working again. The client is launched separately (before manager) through a cron job, and seems to keep working without manager.
When I restart manager from the command line after a freeze, I get:
[chris@casper BOINC]$ ./run_manager --verbose

Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
Gdk-WARNING **: JISX0208.1983-0
Gdk-WARNING **: KSC5601.1987-0
Gdk-WARNING **: GB2312.1980-0
Gdk-WARNING **: JISX0201.1976-0

send: -1
send: Bad file descriptor
connect: Operation now in progress

and then it sits there frozen. Can anyone suggest a better way to restore this app than to reboot?

Thanks,

Chris

G'day Chris

Don't know if this has any bearing on your problem but you don't need to start the client and then the manager, starting the manager will start the client, doing it this way you can also stop the client by exiting the manager (File/Exit).

I used to do the same until it was pointed out to me, the documentation with BOINC is a bit misleading.

I also get the same messages (not the GDK warnings) and in between the send and connect message it says -

connect: connection refused

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