Bug#753763: the graphics program crashes with a segfault

[Steffen Möller]

Hi Yixuan,

On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 15:18:56 -0400
=?utf-8?b?R3VvIFlpeHVhbiAo6YOt5rqi6K2eKQ==?= <culu.gyx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: boinc-app-seti-graphics
> Version: 7.28~svn2408-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream

> Currently, clicking on "show graphics" in boinc manager doesn't work for
> seti.
>
> dmesg output:
> setiathome_grap[8764]: segfault at 28 ip 00007f19c18d785b sp
> 00007fff4a080980 error 6 in setiathome_graphics[7f19c18d2000+a000]

about three years down the road I tend to think that your crash has
auto-repaired itself.
But it still does not run when started as a regular user with the
boinc-manager. It works fine,
however, when invoked as root and in the working directory of the
running task

cd /var/lib/boinc-client/slots/0
/usr/lib/boinc-app-seti-graphics/setiathome_graphics

It all also works just fine when the boincmgr is started as root, which
reduces it to a
permission thingy. And indeed, my account was just assigned to the boinc
group.
That changed fixed the graphics display.

Best,

Steffen