Bug 670061 - Boinc Manager does not indicate that boinc-client service is not started
Summary: Boinc Manager does not indicate that boinc-client service is not started
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: boinc-client
Version: 14
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Milos Jakubicek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-01-17 01:55 UTC by Pierre Sarrazin
Modified: 2011-01-20 10:30 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-01-20 10:30:30 UTC
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Description Pierre Sarrazin 2011-01-17 01:55:33 UTC
Description of problem:
When opening boincmgr before having started the boinc-client service, boincmgr fails a connection attempt without an error message indicating that the boinc-client service needs to be started first.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
boinc-manager-6.10.45-2.r21128svn.fc14.i686

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Do not start the boinc-client service.
2. Start the 'boincmgr' command. 
  
Actual results:
After about 1 or 2 minutes, boincmgr gives a generic error message.

Expected results:
The error message should be more accurate, but ideally, the Boinc Manager should detect that the boinc-client service is down and offer to start it (and have it start on boot).

Additional info:
The "Add Project" button in the Simple view also fails to show the real problem. It looks "pressed" for about 3 seconds, then goes back to its initial state. No error dialog at all. This button should be grayed out until the manager is connected. This probably applies to other buttons as well.

By the way, Bugzilla's package list box lists boinc-client, but not boinc-manager.

Comment 1 Milos Jakubicek 2011-01-20 10:30:30 UTC
When you start the manager, there is a message shown in the status bar (bottom right): "Connecting to localhost", which after a while turns into "Disconnected".

Also, please do not file user requests here but on: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/


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