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redefine

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Registered: 2008-07-17

Posts: 35

boinc not connecting

i couldnt find any other place appropriate

anyway, i installed boinc through pacman (v6.2.15), started the daemon (which only worked after a restart) and the gui manager. it said it was disconnected. so i tried to add a project, it said it was trying to connect to localhost, before going back to disconnected.
i have no problems connecting to the internet, a ping to google, and 127.0.0.1 works fine.

i have looked, but havent really found a viable workaround. does anyone know how to fix it

redefine

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Registered: 2008-07-17

Posts: 35

Re: boinc not connecting

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von_Wanderlust

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Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 67

Re: boinc not connecting

You may need to add yourself to the boinc group and set a password (or use the password that's already) in /var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg.

Try/check this:

1) Check /etc/group and see if your user is a member of group boinc. If it is, it should look like this:

boinc:x:133:username

(133 is the group number, yours will more than likely be different to mine, and this is ok)

If you are not a  member of boinc group, add yourself like this:

# gpasswd -a username boinc

2) Do you have a password set in /var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg? Open the file and check if there is a password, change it to something more memorable if you like. When you open boinc manager, you will need to connect to the boinc daemon on your machine via menu options 'Advanced' and then 'Select Computer'. Enter the name of your computer, and then the passwd that it is in gui_rpc_auth.cfg.