boinc-manager stopped running after today update

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Since update this morning that included the various kernel modules which required a reboot, boinc manager does not run. I tried starting it from a desktop launcher after the reboot. I also tried to start it from a terminal. It threw no errors but did not start. I uninstalled and reinstalled boinc-manager stilll does not run.

Yast services manager says boinc client is active (running). Client appears to be running from a view of system resources app as there is activity on 6 cpus dedicated to it.

I don’t see any boinc eliments in the update of today.

I may try uninstall/reinstall of client if I get no other suggestions. I think boinc manager shuts down client but I don’t think boinc-client can stop manager from running so I don’t think boinc-client is the cause. But might be worth a try.

Anyone see same thing or have any ideas??

thanks, tom kosvic

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Hi
Check the service file listed in the output from systemctl status <service> has the hardening been added? If so, copy to /etc/systemd/system and edit out the relevant hardening options and see if it starts up.

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I don’t understand the request. My interpretation is shown below. But the manager is a different app from the client service. See if this helps:

(base) tom@mydesktop:~> sudo systemctl status boinc-client
[sudo] password for root:  
**●** boinc-client.service - Berkeley Open Infrastructure Network Computing Client
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/boinc-client.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: **active (running)** since Thu 2022-03-31 11:50:59 CDT; 4h 25min ago
       Docs: man:boinc(1)
   Main PID: 2040 (boinc)
      Tasks: 23 (limit: 4915)
     CGroup: /background.slice/boinc-client.service
             ├─ 2040 /usr/bin/boinc --dir /var/lib/boinc
             ├─ 2590 ../../projects/www.sidock.si_sidock/cmdock-boinc-zcp_wrapper_2.1_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
             ├─ 2591 ../../projects/www.sidock.si_sidock/cmdock-boinc-zcp_wrapper_2.1_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
             ├─ 2598 cmdock -c -j 1 -r target.prm -p /var/lib/boinc/slots/5/data/scripts/dock.prm -f htvs.ptc -i ligands>
             ├─ 2605 cmdock -c -j 1 -r target.prm -p /var/lib/boinc/slots/4/data/scripts/dock.prm -f htvs.ptc -i ligands>
             ├─ 2909 ../../projects/www.sidock.si_sidock/cmdock-boinc-zcp_wrapper_2.1_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
             ├─ 2911 cmdock -c -j 1 -r target.prm -p /var/lib/boinc/slots/1/data/scripts/dock.prm -f htvs.ptc -i ligands>
             ├─11669 ../../projects/www.sidock.si_sidock/cmdock-boinc-zcp_wrapper_2.1_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
             ├─11671 cmdock -c -j 1 -r target.prm -p /var/lib/boinc/slots/0/data/scripts/dock.prm -f htvs.ptc -i ligands>
             ├─12812 ../../projects/www.sidock.si_sidock/cmdock-boinc-zcp_wrapper_2.1_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
             ├─12814 cmdock -c -j 1 -r target.prm -p /var/lib/boinc/slots/3/data/scripts/dock.prm -f htvs.ptc -i ligands>
             ├─13974 ../../projects/www.sidock.si_sidock/cmdock-boinc-zcp_wrapper_2.1_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
             ├─13976 cmdock -c -j 1 -r target.prm -p /var/lib/boinc/slots/2/data/scripts/dock.prm -f htvs.ptc -i ligands>
             ├─14575 ../../projects/www.sidock.si_sidock/cmdock-boinc-zcp_wrapper_2.1_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
             └─14577 cmdock -c -j 1 -r target.prm -p /var/lib/boinc/slots/6/data/scripts/dock.prm -f htvs.ptc -i ligands>

Mar 31 14:54:33 mydesktop boinc[2040]: 31-Mar-2022 14:54:33 [SiDock@home] Project requested delay of 7 seconds
Mar 31 15:01:48 mydesktop boinc[2040]: 31-Mar-2022 15:01:48 [SiDock@home] No tasks sent
Mar 31 15:01:48 mydesktop boinc[2040]: 31-Mar-2022 15:01:48 [SiDock@home] This computer has reached a limit on tasks in >
Mar 31 15:01:48 mydesktop boinc[2040]: 31-Mar-2022 15:01:48 [SiDock@home] Project requested delay of 7 seconds
Mar 31 15:14:03 mydesktop boinc[2040]: 31-Mar-2022 15:14:03 [SiDock@home] No tasks sent
Mar 31 15:14:03 mydesktop boinc[2040]: 31-Mar-2022 15:14:03 [SiDock@home] This computer has reached a limit on tasks in >
Mar 31 15:14:03 mydesktop boinc[2040]: 31-Mar-2022 15:14:03 [SiDock@home] Project requested delay of 7 seconds
Mar 31 15:42:23 mydesktop boinc[2040]: 31-Mar-2022 15:42:23 [SiDock@home] No tasks sent
Mar 31 15:42:23 mydesktop boinc[2040]: 31-Mar-2022 15:42:23 [SiDock@home] This computer has reached a limit on tasks in >
Mar 31 15:42:23 mydesktop boinc[2040]: 31-Mar-2022 15:42:23 [SiDock@home] Project requested delay of 7 seconds
(base) tom@mydesktop:~>

I don’t know what the service file is nor what is meant by hardening.

thanks for the help, tom kosvic

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Found an error using the commandline version of the gui boinc-manager. Output is below:

(base) tom@mydesktop:~> boinc
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] Starting BOINC client version 7.16.6 for x86_64-suse-linux-gnu
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] Libraries: libcurl/7.66.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1d-fips zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.20.1 (+libidn
2/2.0.4) libssh/0.8.7/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.40.0
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] Data directory: /home/tom
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (driver version 470.94, CUDA version 11.4, comp
ute capability 6.1, 4037MB, 3798MB available, 2255 GFLOPS peak)
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (driver version 470.94, device version OpenCL
 3.0 CUDA, 4037MB, 3798MB available, 2255 GFLOPS peak)
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] libc: GNU libc version 2.31
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] Host name: mydesktop
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] Processor: 12 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz [Family 6 Model 63 Steppin
g 2]
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 cl
flush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good no
pl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm p
cid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm cpuid_fault epb invpci
d_single pti intel_ppin ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 s
mep bmi2 erms invpcid cqm xsaveopt cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc dtherm ida arat pln pts md_clear flush_l1d
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] OS: Linux openSUSE: openSUSE Leap 15.3 [5.3.18-150300.59.60-default|libc 2.31 (GNU libc)]
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] Memory: 31.27 GB physical, 2.01 GB virtual
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] Disk: 2.55 TB total, 2.14 TB free
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] Local time is UTC -5 hours
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] Last CPU benchmark was 76 days 18:31:06 ago
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] No general preferences found - using defaults
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] Preferences:
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---]    max memory usage when active: 16009.11 MB
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---]    max memory usage when idle: 28816.39 MB
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---]    max disk usage: 2196.51 GB
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---]    don't use GPU while active
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---]    suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---]    (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] Setting up project and slot directories
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] Checking active tasks
31-Mar-2022 16:29:47 ---] Setting up GUI RPC socket
31-Mar-2022 16:30:16 ---] GUI RPC bind to port 31416 failed: 98
31-Mar-2022 16:30:17 gstate.init() failed
Error Code: -180
(base) tom@mydesktop:~>

Perhaps there is an answer here. To reiterate, I only did this morning update and made no mods to boinc-manager.

thanks, tom kosvic

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Hi
Ahh, ok so client looks all ok then. So your running boincmgr from the command line?

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Hi
Nothing appears changed in the boinc packages in a number of years…

Error 98 means the port is already in use by another service…


lsof -i:31416
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I got boinc started again after a reboot. Before reboot, I went and tried to change the port in use from 31416 to 31417 as seen on another thread. I stopped/started client then manager. I tried changing port to 31417. Nothing worked.

Also before reboot, I deleted boinc-client, boinc-manager, and libboinc and then reinstalled.

I then did a reboot and when system came up boinc was running properly. Nothing I tried did anything. Also, I had rebooted once before.

I could not tell someone who is having same problem a means to fix it but it is running.

thanks all, tom kosvic

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boinc has been running for me, but it is not crunching any data. I request data from 4 projects. None of them are computing. Did you see this in your case?

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Boinc client appeared to keep running. System Monitor showed 6 cpus active that are assigned to boinc active. It was only the boinc manager that would not start.

Again, it is fixed but I am not sure how or why.

tom kosvic