BOINC x86_64 - anyone had this working recently?

["Germán A. Racca"]

On 02/17/2012 09:45 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> Germán,
>
>
>> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:00:25 -0200
>> From: "Germán A. Racca" <german.racca at gmail.com>
>> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
>> Subject: Re: BOINC x86_64 - anyone had this working recently?
>> Message-ID: <4F3D7C79.30607 at gmail.com>
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>> On 02/16/2012 03:32 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>>> Germán,
>>>
>>>
>>>> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:59:39 -0200
>>>> From: "Germán A. Racca" <german.racca at gmail.com>
>>>> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
>>>> Subject: Re: BOINC x86_64 - anyone had this working recently?
>>>> Message-ID: <4F3D27EB.3060608 at gmail.com>
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>>>> On 02/16/2012 10:40 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>>>>> People,
>>>>>
>>>>> Some years ago this used to work for me but for the last few
>>>>> versions of
>>>>> Fedora that I have used (12, 14 and now 16) I haven't had any luck
>>>>> - the
>>>>> client keeps stopping.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone got the latest version going on F16 x86_64?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Phil.
>>>>
>>>> Hi Phil:
>>>>
>>>> You have to add your username to the boing group, and then restart your
>>>> computer.
>>>
>>>
>>> Did that - trying to add a project causes a "Connecting" message briefly
>>> and then immediately returns to "Disconnected" and I see in the terminal
>>> where I started the client:
>>>
>>> SIGSEGV: segmentation violation
>>> Stack trace (14 frames):
>>> /usr/lib64/libboinc.so.6(boinc_catch_signal+0x1bc)[0x316023753d]
>>> /lib64/libc.so.6[0x30b6636300]
>>> /lib64/libc.so.6(readdir+0x36)[0x30b66b7b06]
>>>
>>> /usr/lib64/libboinc.so.6(_Z8dir_scanPcP11__dirstreami+0x1f)[0x3160237ae7]
>>>
>>> /usr/lib64/libboinc.so.6(_Z8dir_sizePKcRdb+0x77)[0x3160237fc0]
>>> /usr/lib64/libboinc.so.6(_Z8dir_sizePKcRdb+0xe9)[0x3160238032]
>>> /usr/lib64/libboinc.so.6(_Z8dir_sizePKcRdb+0xe9)[0x3160238032]
>>> boinc_client[0x45bb02]
>>> boinc_client[0x45cc5d]
>>> boinc_client[0x42c0a2]
>>> boinc_client[0x47ba72]
>>> boinc_client[0x47bcb4]
>>> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed)[0x30b662169d]
>>> boinc_client[0x4135d9]
>>>
>>> Exiting...
>>>
>>>
>>> I suppose I should log a bug report somewhere but this is not a high
>>> priority app for me but it would be nice if it would "just work" . .
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Phil.
>>
>> Phil:
>>
>> After adding my username to the boinc group, I made sure the service was
>> enabled and running (using systemd), and then I started "boincmgr". Then
>> I went to "Advanced -> Select computer -> Host name: localhost", and as
>> password I put the content of the file /var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg
>>
>> But maybe you should file a bug.
>
>
> Thanks! - I eventually got it working with a blank password (ie only
> CR/LF i the file). Now my computer can be of use to some other people's
> scientific research again!
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil.

Nice to see it is working for you again!

I'm running the project Milkyway at Home :)

Have a nice day,
Germán.

-- 
Germán A. Racca
Fedora Package Maintainer
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Skytux