Description of problem: Every time you open BOINC manager you will see a popup telling you that the GUI cannot connect to the BOINC service. But when you close this popup everything works fine. See the screenshot in attachment Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 7.0.29
Created attachment 597735 [details] boinc
Confirming on Fedora 18
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Confirming on Fedora 19 too.
Are there any plans to fix it?
Me too. Theodore, can you please please up this to at least F19? And, if you have got it working, please let us all know. I've tried everything I can think of and I still cannot connect to the client. Plus, other people have reported bugs against BOINC that suggest that, at least, can talk to their clients. So, what's wrong with our systems?
Oops, OP is Germano. Germano, can you please switch bug to F19?
(In reply to Paul DeStefano from comment #6) > Me too. > > Theodore, can you please please up this to at least F19? And, if you have > got it working, please let us all know. I've tried everything I can think > of and I still cannot connect to the client. > > Plus, other people have reported bugs against BOINC that suggest that, at > least, can talk to their clients. So, what's wrong with our systems? Paul, this bug is about the popup message always coming out even when it should not. Connection of the manager to the client is allowed when your user is in the boinc group. Is it so?
Aha, no, I wasn't in the group. Thanks for the help. It works now that I'm in the group. Sorry, but I didn't find that mentioned anywhere I checked. In regards to this bug, I did get the message "cannot connect..." in F19.
boinc-client-7.2.33-2.git1994cc8.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/boinc-client-7.2.33-2.git1994cc8.fc19
boinc-client-7.2.33-2.git1994cc8.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/boinc-client-7.2.33-2.git1994cc8.fc20
(In reply to Fedora Update System from comment #11) > boinc-client-7.2.33-2.git1994cc8.fc20 has been submitted as an update for > Fedora 20. > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/boinc-client-7.2.33-2.git1994cc8.fc20 It works thank you. A user in BOINC mailing list told me that "could not connect to BOINC" string is not present in upstream BOINC, so it is something added in Fedora packaged BOINC. Is that true?
Hi Germano, I think I can save the maintainers some time on this one. I've been using the BOINC official installer for many years and the dialog box you're talking about has been there as long as I can remember. I can guarantee it is in the upstream source; it wasn't added by Fedora package maintainers. It doesn't normally show up on start, but I have seen it before outside of the boinc-client Fedora package. The code path may be getting tickled by something the maintainers did with the installation, but it's not new code.
Package boinc-client-7.2.33-2.git1994cc8.fc19: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing boinc-client-7.2.33-2.git1994cc8.fc19' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-23720/boinc-client-7.2.33-2.git1994cc8.fc19 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
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boinc-client-7.2.33-2.git1994cc8.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
boinc-client-7.2.33-2.git1994cc8.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.