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

[GUO Yixuan]

Hello,

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 08:14:24PM -0500, Preston Maness wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> > Try to run boinc-client without those constant-updating-terminal 
> > programs, and see if there's any difference.
> 
> I did have terminals that were updating regularly. And I didn't have
> the libxcb-dpms0 package installed. I've turned off the terminals and
> installed the package. I set the idle time to 0.5 minutes, and
> restarted boinc-client. After several minutes, the program still
> claims to detect user activity.
> 
> Thanks for listing the relevant code. I'm going to have a look at it
> over the weekend and see if I can't at least figure out a way to log
> what precisely is being detected. I suspect that attempting to
> live-debug with gdb could get hairy, though I could always dive into
> that if I had to.
> 
> Cheers,
> Preston Maness

A way of non-intrusive debugging is to use printf. I've used
msg_printf(), which can print message to stdoutdae.txt in
stdoutdae.txt, or the event log in boincmgr. (Therefore I am able to
debug even if boinc is in the normal daemon mode.)

Cheers,

Yixuan
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