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Jaakko Seppälä
Asked: 2015-04-09 00:18:19 +0800 CST

Boinc won't connect to the client

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I tried to use my computer to distributed computing projects World Community Grid/Outsmart Ebola Together and World Community Grid/FightAIDS@Home. It worked nicely but yesterday the Boinc started to say just:

Not connected to a client.

Does anyone has some ideas why it says so? Now it looks like I have no tasks to do and I'm not part in any research project. And it seems to be impossible to attach any projects as the menu Add project or account manager... just closes the drop-down menu. Is this a bug or is there some setup I need to check?

The version is 7.2.42 (x64) and wxWidgets version 2.8.12.

boinc

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    After reproducing your error, I was able to get it running by following the general linux start instructions here.

    First, kill all boinc processes including the manager:

    sudo killall boinc
killall boincmgr

    Then start the daemon:

    sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client start

    Fire up your manager again and give it a shot.

    I also found a system restart can provide roughly the same effect.

    Let me know if this does the trick.

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  2. I have the same problem. boinc-client and boincmgr were running nicely for months, and then one day I noticed that my list of Tasks was gone, so I checked the Projects tab and they were gone too, and then I noticed the "Not connected to a client" icon at the bottom of the screen.

    I have uninstalled boinc-client and boincmgr, restarted the computer, reinstalled, no change. I'm not able to add my projects.

    I then tried:

    sudo killall boinc

killall boincmgr

sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client start

    No change.

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