I am having a similar, but not the same, problem as people in the past. My BOINC does not want to connect. Yes, I can connect using any and every other program so connectivity is not the issue. I see the BOINC manager down on the task bar(I have linux, but sometimes still us window terms.) The manager has a red circle with a white dot in the center and it says that it can not connect.

Computer
OS - Ubuntu 14.04
Memory - 3.9 GiB
Processor - Intel® Core™ i3-2100 CPU @ 3.10GHz × 4
OS type - 32-bit

BOINC
Version - 7.2.42 (x86)
wxWidgetsversion - 2.8.12

Should I uninstall BOINC and reinstall? Is it the version of wxWidgets(which is what I heard was the reason)?

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My BOINC does not want to connect. The manager has a red circle with a white dot in the center and it says that it can not connect.

Make sure that the BOINC client is running as well.

BOINC consists of two parts, the client (boinc-client) which does all the scheduling and connections with servers, and BOINC Manager, the GUI (boinc-manager). While starting BOINC Manager under Windows and Mac OSX will start the client, it does not work that way under Linux. Here you'll have to start both parts separately.

Is it the version of wxWidgets(which is what I heard was the reason)?

Now, who gave you that idea?

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