Bug#929743: boinc-client: Default installation miss "slots" directory made the boincmgr gray out.

Zhang Xiaowei zero00072 at gmail.com
Thu May 30 03:49:00 BST 2019 

Package: boinc-client
Version: 7.14.2+dfsg-3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

As title says. I just apt-get install and run boincmgr as usual at the first time.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

When I run the boincmgr, all items grayed out.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

This is my systctl status says:
● boinc-client.service - Berkeley Open Infrastructure Network Computing Client
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/boinc-client.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2019-05-30 08:59:17 CST; 8min ago
     Docs: man:boinc(1)
 Main PID: 8352 (boinc)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 6.3M
   CGroup: /system.slice/boinc-client.service
           └─8352 /usr/bin/boinc

30-May-2019 08:59:20 [---]    suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
30-May-2019 08:59:20 [---]    (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
30-May-2019 08:59:20 [---] Setting up project and slot directories
dir_open: Could not open directory 'slots' from '/var/lib/boinc-client'.
30-May-2019 08:59:20 [---] Checking active tasks
30-May-2019 08:59:20 [---] Setting up GUI RPC socket
30-May-2019 08:59:20 [---] gui_rpc_auth.cfg is empty - no GUI RPC password protection
30-May-2019 08:59:20 [---] Checking presence of 0 project files
30-May-2019 08:59:20 [---] This computer is not attached to any projects
30-May-2019 08:59:20 Initialization completed

After mkdir under /var/lib/boinc, it's all perfect and rainbowed in.

● boinc-client.service - Berkeley Open Infrastructure Network Computing Client
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/boinc-client.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2019-05-30 09:10:21 CST; 4s ago
     Docs: man:boinc(1)
 Main PID: 10947 (boinc)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 6.3M
   CGroup: /system.slice/boinc-client.service
           └─10947 /usr/bin/boinc

30-May-2019 09:10:23 [---]    don't use GPU while active
30-May-2019 09:10:23 [---]    suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
30-May-2019 09:10:23 [---]    (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
30-May-2019 09:10:23 [---] Setting up project and slot directories
30-May-2019 09:10:23 [---] Checking active tasks
30-May-2019 09:10:23 [---] Setting up GUI RPC socket
30-May-2019 09:10:23 [---] gui_rpc_auth.cfg is empty - no GUI RPC password protection
30-May-2019 09:10:23 [---] Checking presence of 0 project files
30-May-2019 09:10:23 [---] This computer is not attached to any projects
30-May-2019 09:10:23 Initialization completed

Bondezirojn.

From Zhang Xiaowei

-- 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"

# Set this to 1 to enable advanced scheduling of the BOINC core client and
# all its sub-processes (reduces the impact of BOINC on the system's
# performance).
SCHEDULE="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"
BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/bin/boinc"

# 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="--allow_remote_gui_rpc"
BOINC_OPTS=""

# Scheduling options

# Set SCHEDULE="0" if prefering to run with upstream default priority
# settings.

# Nice levels. When systems are truly busy, e.g. because of too many active
# scientific applications started by the boinc client, there is a chance for
# the boinc client not to be granted sufficient opportunity to check for
# scientific applications to be alive and make the (wrong) decision to
# terminate the scientific app. This is particularly an issue with many
# apps started in parallel on modern multi-core systems and extra overheads
# for the download and uploads of files with the project servers. Another
# concern is the latency for scientific applications to communicate with the
# graphics card, which should be low. All such values should be set and
# controled from within the BOINC client. The Debian init script also sets
# extra constrains via chrt on real time performance and via ionice on 
# I/O performance, which is beyond the regular BOINC client. It then was
# too easy to use that code to also constrain minimal nice levels. We still
# think about how to best distinguish GPU applications from regular apps.
BOINC_NICE_CLIENT=10
BOINC_NICE_APP_DEFAULT=19
#BOINC_NICE_APP_GPU=5        # not yet used

# ionice classes. See manpage of ionice (1) in the util-linux package.
BOINC_IONICE_CLIENT=3        # idle
#BOINC_IONICE_APP_DEFAULT=3  # idle, not yet used
#BOINC_IONICE_APP_GPU=2      # best effort, not yet used


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=zh_TW:zh (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages boinc-client depends on:
ii  adduser                3.118
ii  ca-certificates        20190110
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.71
ii  libboinc7              7.14.2+dfsg-3
ii  libc6                  2.28-10
ii  libcurl4               7.64.0-3
ii  libgcc1                1:8.3.0-6
ii  libstdc++6             8.3.0-6
ii  libx11-6               2:1.6.7-1
ii  libxss1                1:1.2.3-1
ii  lsb-base               10.2019051400
ii  python3                3.7.2-1
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

boinc-client recommends no packages.

Versions of packages boinc-client suggests:
pn  boinc-client-nvidia-cuda  <none>
pn  boinc-client-opencl       <none>
ii  boinc-manager             7.14.2+dfsg-3
ii  x11-xserver-utils         7.7+8

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg [Errno 13] 拒絕不符權限的操作: '/etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg'

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

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