Dear Community,

I sent this to support@worldcommunitygrid.org. But then it came to my mind that this forum might be the better place.

Any help is appreciated.

Regards,
Christian

Dear World Community Grid

Unfortunately it does not seem to be possible on the current stable
release of Debian, Debian 4.0 Etch.

I've tried everything from compiling boinc myself (even compiled curl
extra for that), installing backports, even trying to run the windows
version with WINE and so on.

It seems to be impossible to contribute to WCG with my operating system
(which is a wide spread OS).

I think you should be more conservative with your software version
requirements.

The best results I got during extensive testing:
27-Nov-2008 21:32:44 [World Community Grid] Fetching scheduler list
27-Nov-2008 21:32:49 [World Community Grid] Master file download succeeded
SIGSEGV: segmentation violation
Stack trace (7 frames):
boinc_client[0x8095a81]
[0xb7fd1420]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(strlen+0xb)[0xb7c5543b]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(vsprintf+0x8b)[0xb7c41b1b]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(sprintf+0x2e)[0xb7c2e39e]
boinc_client[0x80972ba]
[0x2f2f2f2f]

If you don't have any Idea of what I still could try, then sadly I have
to say: CU, maybe, after the nexte Debian Release...

Regards,
Christian Britz
Germany


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