Hi,

I've just installed Boinc on Debian Testing and get the error
"unable to communicate to the core client"
when boincmgr starts... there are no projects to select etc.

# netstat -ao|grep 31416
tcp        0      0 *:31416                 *:*                     LISTEN      off (0.00/0/0)
tcp        1      0 localhost:60499         localhost:31416         CLOSE_WAIT  off (0.00/0/0)
tcp        0      0 localhost:31416         localhost:60499         FIN_WAIT2   timewait (55.89/0/0)

# service boinc-client status 
Status of BOINC core client: running.
Scheduling of BOINC core client: 4857.
pid 4857's current scheduling policy: SCHED_IDLE
pid 4857's current scheduling priority: 0
OOM killer status for BOINC core client:.
PID 4857: adj 0
, score 
2

which I interpret as meaning that the daemon is up and running.

IPTables are at default settings.

Why can't boincmgr connect to the boinc-client daemon?

Edit: Sorry, I forgot to include the Boinc-manager version which is 7.0.15(x86). Also boinc and boincmgr appear in top.

what's the output of

ps aux | grep boinc

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CIC1=CC=C(C2=N[C@@H](CC(OC(C)(C)C)=O)C3=NN=C(C)N3C4=C2C(C)=C(C)S4)C=C1

# ps aux|grep boinc
me     2965  7.5 14.9 189164 115792 ?       Sl   09:21   6:29 /usr/lib/opera/opera http://boinc.berkeley.edu/manager_links.php?target=simple&version=7.0.15&controlid=6035
boinc     4857  0.1  0.5  12452  3940 ?        SN   09:55   0:03 /usr/bin/boinc --check_all_logins --redirectio --dir /var/lib/boinc-client
me     5910  0.4  2.3 132204 18388 pts/1    Sl+  10:17   0:07 boincmgr
root      7030  0.0  0.0   3504   748 pts/0    S+   10:46   0:00 grep boinc

Thanks for replying. Please ask if I need to supply more info.

Edit: I should have added that the binaries are from the Debian repos.

$ boinc
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---] No config file found - using defaults
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.0.15 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.24.0 OpenSSL/1.0.0g zlib/1.2.6 libidn/1.23 libssh2/1.2.8 librtmp/2.3
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---] Data directory: /home/me
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---] Processor: 1 AuthenticAMD AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2600+ [Family 15 Model 44 Stepping 2]
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---] Processor: 128.00 KB cache
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow up pni lahf_lm
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---] OS: Linux: 3.2.0-1-686-pae
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---] Memory: 755.66 MB physical, 1.00 GB virtual
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---] Disk: 19.94 GB total, 11.65 GB free
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---] Local time is UTC +0 hours
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---] No usable GPUs found
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---] No general preferences found - using defaults
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---] Preferences:
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---]    max memory usage when active: 377.83MB
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---]    max memory usage when idle: 680.09MB
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---]    max disk usage: 9.97GB
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---]    don't use GPU while active
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---]    suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---]    (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---] GUI RPC bind to port 31416 failed: 98
gstate.init() failed
Error Code: -180

Error Code -180 = ERR_BIND -180 system bind
which means that I am officially out of my depth.

The following

# service boinc-client stop
# exit
$ boinc & boincmgr &

makes boincmgr ask to add a project or use the account manager. It looks like the daemon shouldn't have been running.

using just

$ boincmgr &

produces the same behaviour as above but

$ boinc & boincmgr &

works.

boinc 4857 0.1 0.5 12452 3940 ? SN 09:55 0:03 /usr/bin/boinc --check_all_logins --redirectio --dir /var/lib/boinc-client

11-Mar-2012 10:59:48 [---] Data directory: /home/me

Just be aware that you are now using /home/me as your data directory instead of /var/lib/boinc-client

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CIC1=CC=C(C2=N[C@@H](CC(OC(C)(C)C)=O)C3=NN=C(C)N3C4=C2C(C)=C(C)S4)C=C1

Just be aware that you are now using /home/me as your data directory instead of /var/lib/boinc-client

Very good point; thank you for raising it.

As it is I do need to do more reading about running boinc so I can set it exactly as I want it.