Posts by Michael Blucher

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1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with BOINC Manager on Linux Mint; Projects and Tasks tabe randomly clearing. Message 118181 Posted 24 Jan 2026 by Michael Blucher	Well, it's been well over a week, and I've had no further problems. So, that looks like the answer: the Linux Out-of-Memory (OOM) killer was killing off the Daemon. I had no idea that that even existed. Still, I don't understand why it worked perfectly well for 3 years before having a problem. I guess this issue is now closed.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with BOINC Manager on Linux Mint; Projects and Tasks tabe randomly clearing. Message 118088 Posted 15 Jan 2026 by Michael Blucher	I've forced the daemon to log all of its errors to file: /var/lib/boinc-client/boinc-client.log It didn't seem to want to use stderrdae.txt I tracked the problem down to the OOM, it was killing off the boinc-client. I've increased the swapfile 4 fold in size. Interestingly, this laptop has been running for 3 years and the problem only started happening in December. I'll keep monitoring it. [Service] OOMScoreAdjust=-500 StandardOutput=append:/var/lib/boinc-client/boinc-client.log StandardError=append:/var/lib/boinc-client/boinc-client.log
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with BOINC Manager on Linux Mint; Projects and Tasks tabe randomly clearing. Message 118087 Posted 15 Jan 2026 by Michael Blucher	I can easily see the gui at a glance and know if things have dropped out or gone wrong. Not so easy in a terminal window If the gui wasn't showing a problem, I'd never have known there was one.
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with BOINC Manager on Linux Mint; Projects and Tasks tabe randomly clearing. Message 118079 Posted 14 Jan 2026 by Michael Blucher	I am finding that the stdoutdea.txt is now empty, which really does not help at all. It isn't supposed to be. I just had to write a script to reboot the boinc-client daemon when it drops out, which I place into crontab, checking every 5 minutes for dropouts. But then the boincmgr was refusing to reconnect to the daemon, so I had to create a user service to reboot the GUI as well. Had to be user service because it refused to connect to my screen. It is kind of working now, but not the way it's meant to. The annoying thing is, this was all working right up until a day or two before I made the original post back on December 13. Well, it's now gone 2:00 am in the morning, and my brain hurts. I'm going to bed. I've had enough.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with BOINC Manager on Linux Mint; Projects and Tasks tabe randomly clearing. Message 118076 Posted 14 Jan 2026 by Michael Blucher	It's just done it again and again and again I've had enough. I've created a script to test if the boinc-client daemon is running, and if it's not running, then restart the daemon. I've stuck that into crontab and it's running the script every five minutes, testing and restarting as necessary. If the daemon is not running, cron restarts boinc-client and then restarts the boincmgr 2 seconds later. I still have no idea why the daemon is dropping out.
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with BOINC Manager on Linux Mint; Projects and Tasks tabe randomly clearing. Message 118075 Posted 14 Jan 2026 by Michael Blucher	Okay, this has just happened again on the same day. Again, the event log option is greyed out. I know it's a communications clash between the graphical front end, BOINC Manager and the Daemon. How do I test for this failure and force both sides to cleanly shut down and reboot?
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with BOINC Manager on Linux Mint; Projects and Tasks tabe randomly clearing. Message 118072 Posted 14 Jan 2026 by Michael Blucher	This is getting so annoying. It did it again today, but the event log was greyed out again. I restarted the BOINC manager and everything came back up, but the event log contains nothing before me restarting it.
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with BOINC Manager on Linux Mint; Projects and Tasks tabe randomly clearing. Message 118039 Posted 11 Jan 2026 by Michael Blucher	I've found the stdoutdea.txt file. It is quite big. Should I truncate the file, restart BOINC and wait for the fail state to occur again? That would give me a cleaner file to look at. Note: The file contains a lot of "Can't create link file" errors on 2 of the projects, one in particular. Einstein@Home.
9) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with BOINC Manager on Linux Mint; Projects and Tasks tabe randomly clearing. Message 118013 Posted 9 Jan 2026 by Michael Blucher	The BOINC manager finally failed again, but I am unable to get the event logs. The Projects and the Task tabs are empty, the Tools - Event Log option is greyed out, and I can't click it. Worse still, whatever went wrong has locked up the laptop. I've had to reboot it. This isn't failing as much as it was on the previous version, but it does seem to be getting worse. How can I access the event logs through the CLI?
10) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with BOINC Manager on Linux Mint; Projects and Tasks tabe randomly clearing. Message 117922 Posted 30 Dec 2025 by Michael Blucher	Very true, Vitalii. Where do I find the relevant logs? I can post the logs next time the projects drop out. Is BOINC on Linux Mint known to be glitchy? It was okay up until recently, so it has to be something in one of the Mint updates. My version of Mint is up-to-date.
11) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with BOINC Manager on Linux Mint; Projects and Tasks tabe randomly clearing. Message 117901 Posted 29 Dec 2025 by Michael Blucher	And now I'm back to square one. The Project tab is clearing once again and all of the Tasks vanish from the Tasks tab. It appears that the connection between the Daemon and the BOINC Manager is dropping out. Any ideas? It was working fine for years before getting this problem. After updating BOINC as per Vitalii's post, it worked fine up until yesterday. Any ideas?
12) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with BOINC Manager on Linux Mint; Projects and Tasks tabe randomly clearing. Message 117868 Posted 24 Dec 2025 by Michael Blucher	Multiple projects causing the problem? That is highly unlikely. One, maybe, two perhaps, but five. No. I found the cause in the end, it took me quite a while. All of the permissions were correct. The problem was this folder: /var/lib/boinc-client/slots/ The contents were corrupted. I stopped BOINC, deleted the folder and then restarted BOINC. Problem solved.
13) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with BOINC Manager on Linux Mint; Projects and Tasks tabe randomly clearing. Message 117851 Posted 22 Dec 2025 by Michael Blucher	I updated my version of BOINC on the 14th and since then, things appear to have been working okay for 7 days Today, the 8th day, I have another problem that has just arisen. I'm not sure why, but now every task from every project is registering as "Computation error" Any idea? Notes: Yes, I have rebooted the system. Yes, everything else on the system is working. Yes, I have reset the projects.
14) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with BOINC Manager on Linux Mint; Projects and Tasks tabe randomly clearing. Message 117790 Posted 18 Dec 2025 by Michael Blucher	Well, it's been 4 days now and the problem has not reoccurred. Thank you, Vitalii It looks like the problem has been resolved.
15) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with BOINC Manager on Linux Mint; Projects and Tasks tabe randomly clearing. Message 117741 Posted 14 Dec 2025 by Michael Blucher	After updating, I had to reboot the Linux box, but it has now been running for nigh on 4 hours without an issue. So far, so good. Still monitoring.
16) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with BOINC Manager on Linux Mint; Projects and Tasks tabe randomly clearing. Message 117738 Posted 14 Dec 2025 by Michael Blucher	Thanks, I'm just giving that a try now. The problem might have been permissions issues, but after correcting those that I found, the problem did not go away. It is a communications issue between the Boinc Manager and the daemon, but here's the thing, it was all working until 3 days ago. Let's see if this update works. Cheers
17) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with BOINC Manager on Linux Mint; Projects and Tasks tabe randomly clearing. Message 117727 Posted 13 Dec 2025 by Michael Blucher	BOIC version 7.18.1 (x64) I'm finding a problem with the BOINC Manager on Linux Mint. The Projects tab clears of all projects (there are usually 5) and the task under the Task tab also vanishes. I have to close the BOINC Manager and restart it, then everything comes back up as normal. Sometimes I need to restart the BOINC daemon. Has anyone come across this before? Does anyone know how to fix it? It seems to be happening many times per day.
18) Message boards : Questions and problems : How to script startup of Boin Manager on Linux Mint? Message 113208 Posted 1 Dec 2023 by Michael Blucher	Hi I have a PI Cluster with 10 nodes. The cluster is used to process BOINC data for various projects. I have a problem that when the power glitches, as it does, I have to reset my Boinc Manager windows manually. Is it possible to fire up Boinc Manager across the whole cluster, from the controller using scripting? I assume that if it is possible, I'd be using SSH to do so. That way I could just run a script rather than starting things manually. Cheers Michael Blucher
19) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 106678 Posted 5 Jan 2022 by Michael Blucher	Anyone know what happened to Universe at Home: https://universeathome.pl/universe/home.php The project site appears to be unreachable. Regards Michael Blucher
20) Message boards : Projects : Incorrect CPID on one of my attached projects Message 98298 Posted 3 May 2020 by Michael Blucher	Well German or otherwise, I'm more than happy to help them with a bit of data processing. I just wish I could ensure that they sync with my other projects and that the correct cpid gets set. Cheers Michael B.

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