I'm using Fedora 8, but I've only been using Linux for about a week so I don't know how to troubleshoot this, and no amount of searching has turned up an answer so far.

I installed the BOINC client and manager, and set the client to run as a service at boot. I rebooted, and it seems to be running, because I checked:

@localhost ~]$ ps aux | grep boinc
boinc 2021 0.0 0.1 8904 2032 ? SNs 13:10 0:00 /usr/bin/boinc_client --daemon

However, when I launch the manager to attach to rosetta@home, I get this error:

Authorization failed connecting to running client.
Make sure you start this program in the same directory as the client.

I checked, and both the client (boinc_client) and the manager (boinc_manager) are in /usr/bin. So I'm lost.

I did find two text files named boinc-client in other folders, but I'm not sure if those are affecting anything.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the reply, but those instructions didn't quite work out. I changed my RPC password per the instructions, then #4 says

When logged in as a regular user you will be required to give the GUI RPC password every time you start BOINC manager.

This is not the case - it just errors out when I open it, and I can't find any way to enter a password in the manager. Should I be trying to load it from the terminal instead of through GUI?

I went ahead and did steps 4.1 and 4.2, as well as 5.1 through 5.7, but I still have the same problem.

Any further troubleshooting steps? I think I'm missing something at the "You will be required to give the GUI RPC password..." stage, but I performed all of the steps and it still can't find the client.

If installing BOINC is a somewhat advanced Linux operation, just let me know and I'll come back to it in a month once I've had more time to explore. Thanks!

click Advanced -> Select Computer

*duh* There we go, I entered localhost and my new password, and it found the client. So that's fixed - but how do I make it remember my new password? If that's already in the instructions you gave me, sorry but I didn't understand.

Also, this it brought up a new issue. It brings up the "Attach to project" dialogue and allows me to select rosetta@home, but when it tries to connect it says

Network communication failure

BOINC failed to communicate on the internet...

All of the information I found on this issue focuses on firewalls and proxies, but I don't think either applies in my case. My Linux firewall is currently disabled. I'm connected to the Internet via a wireless connection, and I'm able to surf unsecured and secured pages without entering any proxy information, so it's a good assumption that ports 80 and 443 aren't blocked. Also, BOINC is running just fine on my Windows laptop that is connected to the same wireless network, so I doubt that BOINC is selectively blocked. Any ideas?

Thanks for all the help!

click Advanced -> Select Computer

*duh* There we go, I entered localhost and my new password, and it found the client. So that's fixed - but how do I make it remember my new password?

I really don't know and have been wondering that myself. For all my machines that I reach remotely, it never remembers the right password, let alone for the local machine. Perhaps that someone else can help you and me there. :-)

Any ideas?

Other than it still being a firewall issue, no. What happens when you enable the firewall in Linux and allow BOINC through on those ports?

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Unfortunately, it gives me the same behavior.

Checking the source code, it only comes up with that message when you set to use a proxy, while you have none, or when you use a proxy, but didn't set BOINC to use it.

So, did you set a proxy through BM->Advanced view->Advanced->Options?
Or are you using a proxy and didn't you set BOINC up to use it?

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However, when I launch the manager to attach to rosetta@home, I get this error:

Authorization failed connecting to running client.
Make sure you start this program in the same directory as the client.

I checked, and both the client (boinc_client) and the manager (boinc_manager) are in /usr/bin. So I'm lost.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

On Debian, the following script works for me:

#!/bin/sh
xhost +local:
cd /usr/bin
./boincmgr
# end of script

Type the above into a text file (I called the file boinc-run.sh) in your home directory and make it executable. You can then create a desktop icon which runs this script.

Hope this helps!