Posts by Ernie D

1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC Manager not using default web browser When Chrome is installed (Message 51534)
Posted 25 Nov 2013 by Ernie D
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Note, in all cases below, Firefox is default browser:

If Google Chrome is not installed, boincmgr opens default browser and successfully displays appropriate web page.

If no browsers are open but Chrome is installed, boincmgr opens Chrome, but the content is not displayed even though the address shows in Chrome's address bar.

If Chrome is already open, but not Firefox, a new tab is opened, the URL is displayed and content is loaded into tab.

If Both Firefox and Chrome are open, boincmgr selects Chrome to open the URL and successfully display the content.

Seems to me that boincmgr should always use system default web browser, no matter how many web browsers are installed or opened, or it should be selectable as an option in boincmgr.

I need Chrome installed because Adobe Flash is no longer updated for Firefox on x64 Linux, but it is for Chrome and I need latest for one application.

System: Linux Mint 15: Mate on AMD64 hardware with NVIDIA graphics processor.

Boinc Version 7.2.28 (x64)

Both Linux Mint and Boinc are super fresh installs (Just yesterday), so I don't think this is a system configuration problem: especially since I can double-click on a .html file and it will successfully open in the default browser.

I'm not sure if this is a bug with boincmgr, a missing feature of boincmgr, and/or a problem with Google Chrome. Seems like all three to me.

Anybody else see this problem?

Regards,

Ernie D
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : boincmgr says it can't connect to client, but really does. (Message 46257)
Posted 13 Nov 2012 by Ernie D
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I installed the latest Fedora 17 package (7.0.29) on my x86_64 platform. The data, I copied from the Berkeley installation in my home folder to /var/lib/boinc. I did this because of an earlier problem in the Berkeley installation.

When I start up boincmgr, I get the message that "BOINC Manager couldn't connect to BOINC client", but when I close the message box, it does connect and I can see the tasks.

I'd rather not have do the extra mouse click before manoeuvring around the manager window. Also, I don't know yet if everything is working in the client and/or manager.

Could this be a race condition: The app not waiting for the connection attempt to time out? Or is it a setting that needs to be changed?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ernie D




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