boinc-client daemon does not start automatically and hence cannot connect

[shirish]

Hi all,

I purged and removed the old boinc-manager removing also the /var/lib/boinc-client directory due to some graphical issues I was facing then.

Then I installed boinc-client and boinc-manager afresh and rebooted the system. The rebooting was doing in the hopes that the boinc-client daemon would start automatically but it seems it doesn't.

According to ​http://wiki.debian.org/BOINC which has a simple two-liner for users, it says and I quote

"BOINC comes as an official part of Debian. Just install the boinc package. Then start the boincmgr application to join the project of your liking."

But if I try to use boincmgr and try to attach the project, two things happen.

1. On the GUI I get after a minute or two :-

The BOINC client has exited unexpectedly 3 times within the last 2 minutes. Would you like to restart it again?

2. On the CLI I get this :-

$ boincmgr
execvp(/home/shirish/boinc, --redirectio, --launched_by_manager)
failed with error 2!
execvp(/home/shirish/boinc, --redirectio, --launched_by_manager)
failed with error 2!
execvp(/home/shirish/boinc, --redirectio, --launched_by_manager)
failed with error 2!

Now I tried to figure out if boinc daemon is started or not and by default it seems it is not started.

$ boinccmd --get_state
can't connect to local host

$ sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client status
Status of BOINC core client: stopped.

I could simply just to $sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client start but this should not be needed, right ?

3. To top on things, if I try to use boinc-manager > Advanced > Select

Computer it asks for Host Name and password. In my case the Host Name would be localhost.But the moment I put localhost therein I get a big password which I don't know from where its coming.

4. I am confused, another part of the issue wasn't/isn't Multiarch

supposed to get rid of ia32-libs ? ​http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch

Looking forward to know where am I going wrong.

-- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid

APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'),

(1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages boinc-manager depends on: ii libc6 2.13-21 ii libgcc1 1:4.6.2-5 ii libglib2.0-0 2.30.2-4 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.8-2 ii libnotify4 0.7.4-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.9-2 ii libstdc++6 4.6.2-5 ii libwxbase2.8-0 2.8.12.1-3 ii libwxgtk2.8-0 2.8.12.1-3

Versions of packages boinc-manager recommends: ii boinc-client 7.0.2+dfsg-1 ii ia32-libs-gtk 20111001

Versions of packages boinc-manager suggests: ii libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11.1-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.1-2

-- no debconf information

This is already filed in debian at ​http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651303

[shirish]

I purged and removed the old boinc-manager removing also the /var/lib/boinc-client directory due to some graphical issues I was facing then. Then installed boinc-client and boinc-manager afresh and rebooted the system. The rebooting was doing in the hopes that the boinc-client daemon would start automatically but it seems it doesn't.

According to ​http://wiki.debian.org/BOINC which has a simple two-liner for users, it says and I quote

"BOINC comes as an official part of Debian. Just install the boinc package. Then start the boincmgr application to join the project of your liking."

But if I try to use boincmgr and try to attach the project, two things happen.

1. On the GUI I get after a minute or two :-

The BOINC client has exited unexpectedly 3 times within the last 2 minutes. Would you like to restart it again?

1. On the CLI I get this :-

$ boincmgr
execvp(/home/shirish/boinc, --redirectio, --launched_by_manager)
failed with error 2!
execvp(/home/shirish/boinc, --redirectio, --launched_by_manager)
failed with error 2!
execvp(/home/shirish/boinc, --redirectio, --launched_by_manager)
failed with error 2!

Now I tried to figure out if boinc daemon is started or not and by default it seems it is not started.

$ boinccmd --get_state
can't connect to local host

$ sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client status
Status of BOINC core client: stopped.

I could simply just to $sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client start but this should not be needed, right ?

1. To top on things, if I try to use boinc-manager > Advanced > Select

Computer it asks for Host Name and password. In my case the Host Name would be localhost.But the moment I put localhost therein I get a big password which I don't know from where its coming.

1. I am confused, another part of the issue wasn't/isn't Multiarch

supposed to get rid of ia32-libs ? ​http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch

Looking forward to know where am I going wrong.

-- System Information:

Debian Release: wheezy/sid

APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')

Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)

Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)

Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages boinc-manager depends on:

ii libc6 2.13-21

ii libgcc1 1:4.6.2-5

ii libglib2.0-0 2.30.2-4

ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.8-2

ii libnotify4 0.7.4-1

ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.9-2

ii libstdc++6 4.6.2-5

ii libwxbase2.8-0 2.8.12.1-3

ii libwxgtk2.8-0 2.8.12.1-3

Versions of packages boinc-manager recommends:

ii boinc-client 7.0.2+dfsg-1

ii ia32-libs-gtk 20111001

Versions of packages boinc-manager suggests:

ii libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11.1-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.1-2

-- no debconf information

[shirish]

Already filed as ​http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651303 in Debian.

[romw]

Under that configuration, boinc/boincmgr/boinccmd all need to be in /home/shirish/boinc and the CWD needs to be set to /home/shirish/boinc before launching any of them.

[shirish]

what's CWD ?

[romw]

Current Working Directory.

[romw]

IIRC, error code 2 on *nix systems is file not found.

[shirish]

ah ok, just ran it in verbose mode, got some more output this time :-

~$ boincmgr --verbose
12:41:22  IST: looking for catalog 'BOINC-Manager' in path '/home/shirish/locale/.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES:/home/shirish/locale/:/home/shirish/locale/.UTF-8:locale/.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES:locale/:locale/.UTF-8:/usr/share/locale/.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/:/usr/share/locale/.UTF-8:/home/shirish/locale//LC_MESSAGES:/home/shirish/locale/:/home/shirish/locale/:locale//LC_MESSAGES:locale/:locale/:/usr/share/locale//LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale//LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/:/usr/share/locale/'.
12:41:22  IST: catalog file for domain 'BOINC-Manager' not found.
12:41:22  IST: looking for catalog 'BOINC-Client' in path '/home/shirish/locale/.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES:/home/shirish/locale/:/home/shirish/locale/.UTF-8:locale/.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES:locale/:locale/.UTF-8:/usr/share/locale/.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/:/usr/share/locale/.UTF-8:/home/shirish/locale//LC_MESSAGES:/home/shirish/locale/:/home/shirish/locale/:locale//LC_MESSAGES:locale/:locale/:/usr/share/locale//LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale//LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/:/usr/share/locale/'.
12:41:22  IST: catalog file for domain 'BOINC-Client' not found.
execvp(/home/shirish/boinc, --redirectio, --launched_by_manager) failed with error 2!
execvp(/home/shirish/boinc, --redirectio, --launched_by_manager) failed with error 2!

So something called catalog file is not being found, any idea what this catalog file is ?

[romw]

The catalog file is where translated text is stored.  BOINC-Manager.mo and BOINC-Client.mo.

Not part of the problem the bug report is about.

[shirish]

so that failed with error 2 stuff is about the .mo files being not found or something else ?

[romw]

boincmgr is not able to launch boinc, it is not able to find boinc.