I read my post and saw the BOINC-related anger cooking. After some herbal tea I’m easy now. So let’s try again.
You’re problem could be related with mine, but I have no way to determine. You can see in my signature the system I’m using. What’s yours? openSUSE 12.3, I presume, with KDE? Gnome? Xfce? Which version? Perhaps you could give the exact error?
Since I removed the packaged version from the repos, I can not reproduce my error. As far as I can recall, these were the steps I took:
1 First thing I did was installing the following
su -c'zypper in boinc-client boinc-client-doc boinc-client-lang boinc-manager boinc-manager-lang libboinc6'
I’m not sure libboinc6 is necessary, but it seemed to do no harm.
2 I started the BOINC Manager, I saw there was no connection in the manager window and then I was offered with a second window that asked my for a computer and a password. It didn’t work and it reported that it kept trying to connect (when I tried to reconnect through the pulldown-menu in the Managers window). I checked the documentation that came with the boinc-client package (something like SUSEREADME) and followed the instructions: I typed “localhost” and then the password that resides in
/var/lib/boinc/ gui_rpc_auth.cfg
.
3 It still said it could not connect with the localhost. On the internet I saw that I as a regular user need to be a member of the BOINC-user group. So I started YAST and opened the user management tool, edited the regular user and added “boinc”. After this I restarted my system and loged in. In a terminal I used the following command to check that a BOINC process was running:
ps aux | grep boinc
username 23036 0.0 0.0 8328 860 pts/1 S+ 22:47 0:00 grep --color=auto boinc
Oké, something BOINC-ish was running. I assumed it was the client, but I could have been wrong.
But the manager still could not connect with localhost. Thus I could not login and load a project.
After many Google-searches (to no avail), I found the website I mentioned in my first post.
I removed the BOINC packages I installed earlier on with YAST.
I downloaded the script, put it in my /home/username/bin. Then I made it executable and executed it. It installed a /home/username/bin/BOINC and instructions how to start the BOINC manager:
/home/username/bin/BOINC/run_manager
After running this I was presented with the list of projects and off I went downloading the Malaria project and SETI after that.
Is this helpfull?
I still don’t have a clue why the packaged version is not working, though. Anyone?