Bug#721298: boinc-client: Idle Detection Not Working Computer Always In Use

[GUO Yixuan]

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Hello,

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 03:14:43AM -0500, Preston Maness wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> > computation should start after 20 seconds of inactivity or
> > something like that thanks
> 
> Snippet from log file:
> 
> > 31-Aug-2013 03:02:40 Initialization completed 31-Aug-2013 03:02:40
> > [---] Suspending computation - computer is in use
> 
> After several minutes, the logs at /var/lib/boinc-client/stdoutdae.txt
> still only state that the computer is in use. Network activity
> continues of course, as per the xml file with the settings. But no CPU
> or GPU activity.
> 
> Is there perhaps a log of the activity that boinc is supposedly
> detecting? I suspect there could be a background process of some sort
> on my machine that is being detected as active user activity, leading
> boinc to believe the computer is in use. But I can't find any logs
> that look relevant in /var/lib/boinc-client/.

Could you check if you have libxcb-dpms0 package installed? I suspect
that this is related to the idle-time function in boinc, and this
library didn't end up into boinc-client's dependency because it
functions as a plugin...

Cheers,

GUO Yixuan
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