Bug#407461: boinc-client sends bogus platform '' on amd64

[Frank S. Thomas]

On Sunday 21 January 2007 14:36, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> On 1/18/07, Thibaut VARENE <varenet at debian.org> wrote:
> > On 1/18/07, Thibaut VARENE <varenet at debian.org> wrote:
> > > On 1/18/07, Steffen Moeller <moeller at inb.uni-luebeck.de> wrote:
> > > > In short: I cannot reproduce the erratic behaviour you reported. Does
> > > > Debian's SETI work for you? Have you changed anything in the
> > > > configuration scripts? If so, maybe some purging and a reinstallation
> > > > would help?
> > >
> > > I thought about that and did a remove --purge (including purging the
> > > data directory) and then installed boinc-client again, with the same
> > > result. It's strange that you can't reproduce the bug. I'm gonna
> > > install boinc-client on another amd64 machine I have soon and will
> > > test it there, see if that's just a hectic behaviour of my particular
> > > setup or something else :)
> >
> > Turns out the other box I wanted to use for testing purpose is not
> > available, meaning I won't be able to double check that... Sorry.
>
> I don't know if that's of any help, but I tested on an Ubuntu Dapper
> machine (which has 5.4.9) and there it works just fine.
>
> I'll see if I can investigate this more

I don't have time to investigate this at the moment, but I suspect that this 
patch causes the behavior you've observed: 
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-boinc/trunk/boinc/debian/patches/01_amd64-disable-platform-reset.dpatch?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

Grüße,
Frank

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