1) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 7.18.1 doesn't work. (Message 107981) Posted 28 Apr 2022 by Brandon Clark Post: Hello group. After scouring the drive I found three copies of the gui_rpc file, and one link to the file. One of them held a password, so on a guess I copied the password into the other versions of the file. After that the manager could connect to the client. It's a moot point though. Kubuntu doesn't detect that I have video cards installed, it won't locate the drivers, and the manual install driver packages from AMD (wait for it!) . . . fail to install. I've been running BOINC and various versions of linux for about ten years, but I honestly feel like I'm done with both. I love the idea of open source, and I love the idea of volunteering computing time, but things have to actually work. With the current state of things it's like volunteering to help build a house, only to find that the screwdrivers are bent, the lumber is rotten, and the building plans are for an entirely different floor plan. As much as I dislike the privacy and bloat issues in Windoze, at least the OS works. Thanks to the group for trying.

2) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 7.18.1 doesn't work. (Message 107978) Posted 28 Apr 2022 by Brandon Clark Post: Hello group - checking back in. So I was able to get that repository added, and using the terminal the usual commands installed the right version of the client and manager. Now there are new problems though. The client doesn't start automatically as it should. I've been starting it manually using a terminal. That's probably an easy fix, but the manager is completely hung up. I keep getting the good old "Invalid client RPC password. Try reinstalling BOINC" error. I've gone through the usual directories and updated permissions of all files and links to allow all=read, write, execute. /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg /var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg For some reason my Home directory is also cluttered up with a shitshow of BOINC files, including another copy of gui_rpc_auth.cfg. Not sure what that clutter bomb is about, but I updated permissions on the gui_rpc_auth.cfg file in the home directory as well, just in case. After a few more hours of wasted time and about 20 restarts (at least) the manager is still hung up. I'm going to just not run boinc on this system, which is unfortunate. Even when this box was running windoze the pair of AMD RX 570's was a screamer of a system. Feeling the need to vent . . . has anyone else noticed that BOINC seems to be getting buggier and less stable over the years? I've been running it for about ten or eleven years now on a mix of linux and windoze systems, and each year I find that getting a new system up and running (or refreshing an existing one) becomes more difficult. I've had problems with utilizing multiple GPU's, issues with permissions, packages, harmonizing settings across systems, directory structures, accessing systems remotely, files disappearing . . . . I've honestly reached the point where I'm asking myself why I am devoting so much time to something so buggy and frustrating.

3) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 7.18.1 doesn't work. (Message 107966) Posted 26 Apr 2022 by Brandon Clark Post: I'll check into that Kubuntu forum and see if I can pass the word along about the incorrect package. Since it might be a little while before that gets addressed at the repository level, what are the options for a low-skill linux user to get BOINC running again? I've considered reverting back to the previous LTS release, but then I would lose out on the nice desktop features currently available in Kubuntu (they changed to Plasma a few releases back). If I add the third-party repository, how do I instruct the system to install BOINC from that repository, rather than the one for 22.04? Alternatively, is there a good tutorial online showing how to compile from source code, as one poster mentioned? If I go that route, will Ubuntu recognize the program and try to update it to 7.18.1? Many thanks, Brandon

4) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 7.18.1 doesn't work. (Message 107961) Posted 26 Apr 2022 by Brandon Clark Post: I'm in the same boat. I just upgraded to Kubuntu 22.04 and the repository tries to install BOINC 7.18.1. How do we reach out to the community to get them to correct the error? With as many packages as are out there I doubt the development community is going to notice this one any time soon. In the software world BOINC is about as "niche" as it gets. I'm a casual linux user, so installing from source code is way beyond my abilities. Adding a repository that I'm unfamiliar with makes me uneasy from a stability and cybersecurity standpoint. Brandon Clark

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