[Bug 298107] Re: boinc stalls after update

[Shirish Agarwal]

** Description changed:

  Hi all, 
-  boinc doesn't crunch. It tries to do benchmarking and then disconnects. 
+  boinc doesn't crunch. It tries to do benchmarking and then disconnects. This happened after update/upgrade from 6.2.12 to 6.2.14
  
  ~$ boinc --run_cpu_benchmarks
  14-Nov-2008 21:07:23 [---] Starting BOINC client version 6.2.14 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
  14-Nov-2008 21:07:23 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops, checkpoint_debug
  14-Nov-2008 21:07:23 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.18.2 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.10
  14-Nov-2008 21:07:23 [---] Data directory: /home/shirish
  14-Nov-2008 21:07:23 [---] Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz [Family 15 Model 1 Stepping 2]
  14-Nov-2008 21:07:23 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm up pebs bts
  14-Nov-2008 21:07:23 [---] OS: Linux: 2.6.27-7-generic
  14-Nov-2008 21:07:23 [---] Memory: 1001.37 MB physical, 1.39 GB virtual
  14-Nov-2008 21:07:23 [---] Disk: 52.20 GB total, 31.34 GB free
  14-Nov-2008 21:07:23 [---] Local time is UTC +5 hours
  14-Nov-2008 21:07:23 [---] No coprocessors
  14-Nov-2008 21:07:23 [---] Version change (6.2.12 -> 6.2.14)
  14-Nov-2008 21:07:23 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
  14-Nov-2008 21:07:23 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 500.68MB
  14-Nov-2008 21:07:23 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 901.23MB
  14-Nov-2008 21:07:23 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
  14-Nov-2008 21:07:52 [---] [error] GUI RPC bind failed: 98
  gstate.init() failed: -180
  
  
  ~$ boinccmd --get_messages
  Authorization failure: -155
  
  $ sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart
  [sudo] password for shirish: 
   * Stopping BOINC core client: boinc                                                                                   [ OK ] 
   * Starting BOINC core client: boinc                                                                                   [ OK ] 
   * Setting up scheduling for BOINC core client and children:                                                           [ OK ] 
  
  
  ~$ boinccmd --get_messages
  Authorization failure: -155
  
  Also tried to see if there were two instances of boinc
  
  ~$ ps -ax|grep boinc
  Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
   8562 pts/2    S+     0:00 grep boinc
  18192 ?        S      1:58 /usr/bin/boinc --check_all_logins --redirectio --dir /var/lib/boinc-client
  
  The only issue I see here it should give the project it is crunching
  for, it is not showing that as well :(
  
  can somebody guide me to what's wrong?
  
  I also did all the stuff given at boinc homepage in order to get it to
  work (just in case) :-
  
  1. Open /etc/group in a text editor.
  2. Look for the line starting with boinc:x:<group ID number>:.
  3. Edit the line to look like boinc:x:<group ID number>:username
  4. Save the file and close the editor.
  5. In a terminal, enter sudo chmod g+rw /var/lib/boinc-client
  6. Enter sudo chmod g+rw /var/lib/boinc-client/*.*
  7. Enter sudo ln -s /var/lib/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg /home/username/gui_rpc_auth.cfg
  8. Enter sudo chown boinc:boinc /home/username/gui_rpc_auth.cfg 
  
  All of them work without a hitch apart from 7
  
  ln: creating symbolic link `/home/shirish/gui_rpc_auth.cfg': File exists
+ .
+ 
+ Also found something more interesting
+ 
+ ~$ ll /var/lib/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg
+ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2008-11-12 07:24 /var/lib/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg -> /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg
+ 
+ So apparently /var/lib/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg is already
+ symlinked to /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  Package: boinc-client 6.2.14-2
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=en_IN
  SourcePackage: boinc
  Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

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boinc stalls after update 
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