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BOINC not starting

I'm trying to install BOINC on my new system (a brand new shiny Fedora Core 10) and -of course- BOINC will not start. I had this problem in the past, but I can't really remember how I solved it.

So, here's what I've done so far:
1) sudo yum -y install boinc-client boinc-manager
2) start BOINC GUI -> Select Computer... -> put localhost and the password in gui_rpc_auth.cfg
nothing happens, in the status bar I only see "connecting to localhost". The attach to project menu does not even pop up a dialog...
This has NEVER worked for me, so I did:
3) boinc_client --attach_project www.worldcommunitygrid.org <my key here>
This attaches the project, downloads a couple of files and doesn't do anything anymore
4) Reopen GUI. Same as point 2, but this time I immediatly see "disconnected" in the status bar
5) Don't know if this is useful, but I've tried:
service boinc-client start
With this I get a warning "The BOINC client requires initialization".
6) Tried this:
boinc_cmd --host localhost --password `cat gui_rpc_auto.cfg`
And I get: Authorization failure: -155

So, if someone can help me it would be really be appreciated.
At least I know I'm not alone... as many linux users seem to have the same issues with this

[Nov 29, 2008 10:33:26 AM]

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Re: BOINC not starting

Your option 5 *should* be correct (although most packages would start the service automatically). I'm not familiar with the Fedora BOINC port.

It would help me if you could paste the output from your attempt (3).

[Nov 29, 2008 10:48:11 AM]

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Re: BOINC not starting

Thanks Didactylos, here's the output

As you can see now it says that I'm already attached to the project, which makes sense, I guess. I highlighted the only unusual things I get.

29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [---] Starting BOINC client version 6.2.15 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [---] This a development version of BOINC and may not function properly
29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.18.2 NSS/3.12.1.1 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.14 libssh2/0.18
29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [---] Data directory: /home/nicola
29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [---] Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Genuine Intel(R) CPU          
      T2300  @ 1.66GHz [Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 8]
29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca 
     cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon bts pni monitor est tm2 xtpr
29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [---] OS: Linux: 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686
29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [---] Memory: 1008.09 MB physical, 4.88 GB virtual
29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [---] Disk: 33.64 GB total, 17.45 GB free
29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [---] Local time is UTC +1 hours
29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [---] No coprocessors
29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [---] Already attached to http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/] URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; 
     Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default
29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 504.04MB
29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 907.28MB
29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
29-Nov-2008 12:51:50 [---] [error] GUI RPC bind failed: 98
gstate.init() failed: -180

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[Nov 29, 2008 11:58:40 AM]

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Re: BOINC not starting

You are using a pre-release version of BOINC. I think that's unwise.

If the Fedora port of BOINC 6 isn't ready yet, use 5.10 instead.

29-Nov-2008 12:51:21 [http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/] URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/;
Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default

This means that the first network communication with the WCG servers failed.

Looking at your log, it appears that absolutely no network activity is happening, not even the localhost traffic required for BOINC Manager to work. Either there is a problem with libcurl or your network stack, or you have set up a firewall with far too paranoid settings.

I suggest you downgrade to the stable 5.10 branch before worrying about the network problems, though.

[Nov 29, 2008 12:14:08 PM]

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Re: BOINC not starting

oooops... I didn't notice it was a development version... I just installed it with yum thinking it would be the last stable release!

Anyway, as I had to install another version I just fetched the final 6.2.15 from the Boinc website and it works perfectly from the GUI (finally!) without having to do anything from the terminal.

Thank you and sorry for wasting your time on such a trivial issue tongue

[Nov 29, 2008 12:33:59 PM]

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Re: BOINC not starting

It's really not your fault. BOINC versions aren't released, they escape. Often in pieces. The latest Ubuntu port is broken, too.

[Nov 29, 2008 12:46:02 PM]

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