1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Ubuntu 20.10 but getting error on BOINC (Message 101735) Posted 24 Nov 2020 by Scott_CA Post: I also had issues with Pop!_OS (20.10 version). I expected it to be easy--it wasn't. I had the gui_rpc_auth.cfg problem, and couldn't get boinc-client to start. I put my user password into the empty .cfg file, and added my username to the BOINC group. I don't know exactly which of several commands I tried actually started the client because when I finally tried the 'status' command below it had been running several minutes. I thought monitoring running processes with task manager (System Monitor 3.38.0) would help identify the problem, but after getting boinc running, only 'boincmgr' is displayed. On my Ubuntu 14.04 system, the running process is identified as /var/lib/boinc-client , and running tasks are also shown. I was able to confirm the client start with... sudo systemctl status boinc-client. When the boinc-manager is closed, there is no indication of the status of the boinc-client. With the 7.16.11 (x64) version of BOINC Manager, there is no decision to 'Stop running tasks when closing Manager'. This forces the user to either 'Suspend' before closing the window, setting the preferences to some % of CPU activity as a trigger to suspend BOINC, kill the process with the terminal, or leave the system to take care of itself and live with any hidden performance degradation. Years of experience with many Linux distros but no 20.X versions, and BOINC, but have not seen this problem before. Usually I just install with Synaptic and all is well. A plain-text password in a cfg file......not a good idea? Or was it all caused by a non-running boinc-client, an installation or startup error?

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