Posts by Richard Holmes

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC Invalid client RPC password. Try reinstalling BOINC (Message 113608)
Posted 13 Feb 2024 by Richard Holmes
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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
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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
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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
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See above, 
drwxrwxr-x 5 boinc boinc 4096 Feb 13 14:49 /var/lib/boinc-client
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5) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC Invalid client RPC password. Try reinstalling BOINC (Message 113595)
Posted 13 Feb 2024 by Richard Holmes
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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
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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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