BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Jun 29 02:57:21 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 22:52 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Hi Patrick and Craig;
> 
> Thanks a million, I would and thousands of others would never have
> guessed NetworkManager was BOINC's problem in a thousand years.
> 
> On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:51 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 14:30 -0400, William Case wrote:
> 
> > ----
> > I believe that what Patrick was trying to tell you is that if you are
> > using NetworkManager, then it's entirely possible that networking isn't
> > fully operational when boinc service starts at bootup which would cause
> > it to fail. That can probably be verified by merely issuing
> > '/sbin/service boinc restart' (assuming that restart is an option for
> > the boinc sysv script). If that works, then it might just be easier to
> > put that command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (/sbin/service boinc restart)
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
> As I said, after re-installing Boinc and then re-booting,  I ran a new
> set of the work units to the end.  No new units would download.
> boincmgr complained about a lack of a connection -- BINGO.
> 
> I re-booted just to see.  No joy -- BINGO
> 
> I then added '/sbin/service boinc-client restart' to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> and re-booted once again.  --BINGO  
> 
> Everything was up and running. New work units were down loaded
> automatically and boinc is happily processing away as I write.
> 
> N.B.  For anyone following this saga and has a similar problem notice
> one correction.  The line is '/sbin/service boinc-client restart', not
> '/sbin/service boinc restart'.
> 
> Re: Bug reporting.  I think this bug is worth reporting, although you
> probably know better which details to report regarding NetworkManager.
> Some poor unlucky shmuck could get caught from 2 days to a week trying
> to figure out what was wrong.
> 
> Once again, thanks very much to both of you, and the others that tried
> to give me a hand.
----
report it just like you did above...if the packager has questions, he'll
ask but I would suggest that you file it against NetworkManager package.

It's important to work out all of the issues with NetworkManager to
solve them once and for all.

Craig




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