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Former Member
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bathat, please will you stop making us guess, and post the actual messages?
You are attempting to attach incorrectly. Running boinc directly the way you are is a bad way of doing it. Set it up as a service, and control it using boinccmd or boincmgr. If this is too difficult, there are ports available that configure it for you. Please ask if you want further information (tell us what distro you use). Please follow Lawrence's advice about the account key. |
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Didactylos: I already have a boinc-client service. My distro is Debian (I discretely slipped it into my original post). I install BOINC via apt-get and it automatically set it up as a service under /etc/init.d/.
Thanks lawrencehardin, I found the account key and removed the *_www.worldcommunitygrid.org.xml files to recreate them after trying again with the files still intact with continued failure. So, everything is working great now. The only thing that concerns me is that the process Rosetta@Home (wcg_hpf2_roset) is running right now. Excellent! I look forward to helping out. Only a single-core AMD machine, but any little bit helps. Thanks for all the help everyone. |
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Glad you have it working!
Our Human Proteome Folding project uses Rosetta, which is the software being developed by the Rosetta@Home project. Don't worry; you're doing WCG work. Here are some extra notes on running BOINC: start BOINC using /etc/init.d/boinc-client start(just like any other service.) You can send it stop and restart commands, too. To control BOINC, use the BOINC command tool. It is explained here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BoincCmd For example, you would attach using: boinc_cmd --project_attach www.worldcommunitygrid.org accountkey |
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Thanks for the instructions on how to control BOINC. I was just wondering how I might display percentage complete, etc. However, whenever I issue any of the commands, I just receive...
connect: Connection refused can't connect to local host Any idea what this means and how to resolve it? Thanks |
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Sekerob
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There is a graphical user interface for BOINC on Linux, thus no painful command line coding is needed. The program is called BOINCmgr.exe in Windows. Dont know what the name is in Linux, but is likely very similar.
----------------------------------------The particular error implies that one part of the client e.g. the command line app (BOINCcmd) is not able to communicate internally (localhost) to the daemon aka core client (BOINC.exe). Localhost uses IP address 127.0.0.1 for in house communication. Often security software like firewalls are the cause. The communications uses a protocol called RPC and uses 2 ports. Always port 31416 and a random port in the range 1038-5000. These ports need to be open for the BOINC program elements.
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I would use boincmgr but, as I mentioned in a previous post, it has difficulties displaying the fonts correctly and is therefore useless to me, unfortunately.
I tried opening up port 31416 and ports 1038-5000, but I still cannot connect to localhost. |
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You need to use the password stored in gui_rpc_auth.cfg - normally you would start boinc_cmd in the same working directory as this file, but your port (which we already know is broken) doesn't do this.
So, you need to pass the GUI password directly to boinc_cmd (see here). It may be worth checking out a different BOINC port, since this is the third problem you've had (missing CA certificate, messed up BOINC Manager GUI, and now the GUI password problem). A decent BOINC installation should just work, out of the box. I'm sorry you've been put through all this trouble. Please will you point us to the precise BOINC port you got with apt-get, and I will test it and submit a patch if I can. |
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I tried passing boinc_cmd the password stored in gui_rpc_auth.cfg but it still cannot connect to localhost. Weird...
Sorry... how do I know which port I got with apt-get? If only there were some way to tell boincmgr to use some font other than the offending one--Arial. |
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I tried passing boinc_cmd the password stored in gui_rpc_auth.cfg but it still cannot connect to localhost. Weird... Please post the actual command you are typing. Sorry... how do I know which port I got with apt-get? I'm not sure about this; please try: sudo apt-get -s boinc-client boinc-manager If only there were some way to tell boincmgr to use some font other than the offending one--Arial. I'm sure there is, but it's much too complicated to bother with. |
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Please post the actual command you are typing. boinc_cmd --passwd foobar --get_screensaver_mode sudo apt-get -s boinc-client boinc-manager Nope, that doesn't work. The '-s' flag is usually used to simulate something with the 'install' command, for example. Debian's package manager (dpkg) may have some information. |
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