Bug#445875: boinc-client: freeze is network is unavailable but network option is set to always on

[Sandro Tosi]

Package: boinc-client
Version: 5.10.8-2
Severity: normal

Hello,
if network option for boinc is set to "always available" but the network
is indeed off, the core freezes.

I have a box which connects to internet using another linux box, not
always on; I've set the default gw to that machine, and the route is
still set even if the router is shutted down.

If I forgot to uncheck network availability for boinc, as soon as a
workunit finishes, the core start a loop where it freezes for about 1-2
minute (I think until it recieves a network timeout), then start
computing other wo (if present), the comes back to freeze waiting for
another timeout, and so on.

When it's in freeze state, nor the boinc_cmd nor the boincmgr can
connect to it (in order to set network not available), and the only way
to stop the loop is shut down networking on the box, set no network for
boinc, then restart networking.

Regards,
Sandro

-- Package-specific info:
-- Contents of /etc/default/boinc-client:
# This file is /etc/default/boinc-client, it is a configuration file for the
# /etc/init.d/boinc-client init script.

# Set this to 1 to enable and to 0 to disable the init script.
ENABLED="1"

# The BOINC core client will be started with the permissions of this user.
BOINC_USER="boinc"

# This is the data directory of the BOINC core client.
BOINC_DIR="/var/lib/boinc-client"

# This is the location of the BOINC core client, that the init script uses. 
# If you do not want to use the client program provided by the boinc-client
# package, you can specify here an alternative client program.
#BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/local/bin/boinc_4.25"
BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/bin/boinc_client"

# Here you can specify additional options to pass to the BOINC core client.
# Type 'boinc --help' or 'man boinc' for a full summary of allowed options.
#BOINC_OPTS="--return_results_immediately --allow_remote_gui_rpc"
BOINC_OPTS=""

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686-smp (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages boinc-client depends on:
ii  adduser               3.105              add and remove users and groups
ii  ca-certificates       20070303           Common CA Certificates PEM files
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14             Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                 2.6.1-5            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3              7.17.0-1           Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgcc1               1:4.2.1-6          GCC support library
ii  libidn11              1.1-1              GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap2              2.1.30.dfsg-13.5   OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libssh2-1             0.17-1             SSH2 client-side library
ii  libssl0.9.8           0.9.8e-9           SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6            4.2.1-6            The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-base              3.1-24             Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  python                2.4.4-6            An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-6   compression library - runtime

boinc-client recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  boinc-client/remove_boinc_dir: false