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| 1) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC Invalid client RPC password. Try reinstalling BOINC
Message 113608 Posted 13 Feb 2024 by Richard Holmes |
In other words, no, this site's software is hopelessly broken? Then I'll give up, I guess. |
| 2) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC Invalid client RPC password. Try reinstalling BOINC
Message 113606 Posted 13 Feb 2024 by Richard Holmes |
I am not enthusiastic about running software downloaded from a random site I never heard of especially with no documentation or description. Is there no way to get this site's software working? It *was* working and then suddenly it wasn't. |
| 3) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC Invalid client RPC password. Try reinstalling BOINC
Message 113605 Posted 13 Feb 2024 by Richard Holmes |
I had boinc and boincmgr installed, it was working fine. Then it started giving me these errors. |
| 4) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC Invalid client RPC password. Try reinstalling BOINC
Message 113604 Posted 13 Feb 2024 by Richard Holmes |
See above, drwxrwxr-x 5 boinc boinc 4096 Feb 13 14:49 /var/lib/boinc-client. |
| 5) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC Invalid client RPC password. Try reinstalling BOINC
Message 113595 Posted 13 Feb 2024 by Richard Holmes |
Reinstallation was done according to https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_BOINC_on_Debian_or_Ubuntu . |
| 6) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC Invalid client RPC password. Try reinstalling BOINC
Message 113594 Posted 13 Feb 2024 by Richard Holmes |
I am getting the above error and have not been able to fix it. Reinstalling BOINC did not work. I googled some possible remedies but had no success. In particular I followed the procedure here: https://techoverflow.net/2021/11/29/how-i-fixed-ubuntu-boinc-invalid-client-rpc-password-try-reinstalling-boinc/ # Generate new RPC password sudo apt -y install pwgen pwgen 30 1 | sudo tee /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg # Fix some permissions sudo chown root:boinc /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg sudo chown root:boinc /var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg # Add current user to BOINC group sudo usermod -a -G boinc $USER # Restart BOINC client sudo systemctl restart boinc-client I am in group boinc: $ groups rsholmes adm tty dialout cdrom sudo audio dip plugdev users lpadmin sambashare boinc libvirt File permissions: $ ls -l /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg -rw-r----- 1 root boinc 1 Jan 26 2022 /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg $ ls -l /var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Feb 12 22:14 /var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg -> /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg $ ls -ld /var/lib/boinc-client/ drwxrwxr-x 5 boinc boinc 4096 Feb 12 22:39 /var/lib/boinc-client/ boincmgr version is 7.18.1 OS is Linux Mint 21.2 |
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