Posts by M0CZY

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 7.18.1 doesn't work. (Message 107897)
Posted 19 Apr 2022 by M0CZY
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I have used the BOINC PPA from Gianfranco Costamagna in the past, but I remember that it didn't work with projects that use Virtualbox, as was noted by other users too.

As I am in no real hurry to run BOINC on this particular computer, I'm going to wait and see if the Ubuntu package maintainers will correct their error.
If they don't, then there will be loads of BOINC users upset when they upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and find out that their BOINC no longer works.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 7.18.1 doesn't work. (Message 107888)
Posted 19 Apr 2022 by M0CZY
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I was running Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS, and did a dist-upgrade, and now it is Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
The version of BOINC which ships with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is 7.18.1

I am aware that Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is not quite ready for general release for a few more days.
Could they have put a 'dummy package' in place instead of a real BOINC package? How can I test this?

The correct BOINC package for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is definitely version 7.18.1
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=boinc&searchon=names&suite=jammy&section=all
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 7.18.1 doesn't work. (Message 107883)
Posted 18 Apr 2022 by M0CZY
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I've upgraded my Core2 Duo computer from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04, which went well.
The BOINC installation updated from version 7.16.6 to 7.18.1, but I have a problem. It doesn't work!

When I try to start it from the dashboard, nothing happens.
I tried starting boincmgr from the terminal and it outputted "illegal instruction core dumped"
This also happened when I tried to run boinc, and also boinccmd from the terminal.

I have uninstalled, and re-installed BOINC, but still get the same result.

I'm running out of ideas as to what I have done wrong.




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