BOINC Manager GUI does not work

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#1

I just installed 20.2 Manjaro Gnome. The GUI does not work. boinc.service is missing as well.

/ >>> boincmgr                                                              [1]
06:46:32: Warning: Mismatch between the program and library build versions detected.
The library used 3.0 (wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1013,wx containers,compatible with 2.8),
and your program used 3.0 (wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1014,wx containers,compatible with 2.8).

Well, I would include a screen shot here but someone has stopped us from using things that would actually help.

I run boinc on quite a few machines having used many distros over the years. It appears the packaging still isn’t quite right in the ARCH family of distros.

BOINC can't add any project
#2

What do you mean? Does the GUI not appear at all, or is something not functional when using it?

Note: In boinc 7.10.3-1, the unit was renamed from boinc.service to boinc-client.service .

– BOINC - ArchWiki

#3

GUI died with said error.

I chucked the Gnome edition and installed KDE.

Life is slightly better. Thank you for pointing out the name change. The vast majority of documentation one finds with searches doesn’t point that out.

The manual tweaks of:
cd /var/lib/boinc
sudo chmod 640 gui_rpc_auth.cfg
sudo chmod o+r gui_rpc_auth.cfg

are still necessary. I’ve not done any pacman packaging, but in Debian and RPM that is a simple postinst step.

Boinc Manager now has this bug.
BOINC manager not listing projects
bbs dot archlinux dot org/viewtopic.php?id=259383
Package version 7.16.11-1 fixed the issue.

According to About we are 7.16.11 sans the -1
I have this same bug.

#4

I have the similar problems and downgrade, configuration and upgrade, resolve it :slight_smile:
sudo DOWNGRADE_FROM_ALA=1 downgrade boinc
and I chose version 7.16.10 after installation:
sudo systemctl start boinc-client.service
sudo systemctl enable boinc-client.service
Restart computer.
Switch on Boinc Manager, cancel adding “.” project, switch Boinc Manager off and switch on again after few seconds to push it to work :slight_smile:
Setup Boinc Manager configuration (connect to BAM) and change some settings.
Upgrade Boinc to newest version, reboot and now it’s working normal :smile:

#5

Thanks,

I have almost everything working the “approved way.” Need to log yet another BOINC issue though.

BOINC Half added project