BOINC should run later than gdm

[Deactivated User]

Binary package hint: boinc

BOINC should run later than GDM (in the init scripts), as running boinc before GDM starts slows down the user login process. Running BOINC before GDM/X starts also causes boinc to not detect GPU's for CUDA in the system.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

This is related to bug 525241 (move to upstart task).

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

There's the "starting-dm" signal emitted by gdm/kdm.
I could not find anything more suitable - like "started-dm", but maybe "starting-dm" is enough for this purpose (on a desktop system).

We need something different for non-desktop environments though.

As a workaround adding something like "sleep 30" at the top of the boinc init script might help already.

[Skip Guenter (skip)]

Sleep command in the start() function works fine. Only need a sleep value of around 5 though.

start()
{
  sleep 5
  log_begin_msg "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
  if is_running; then

[Skip Guenter (skip)]

Another approach:

sudo update-rc.d -f boinc-client remove
sudo update-rc.d boinc-client defaults 99

I got this from gfarmerfr an ATI/Ubuntu user on the DNETC forums but haven't actually tried it. It worked for gfarmerfr.

[Steffen Möller (moeller-debian)]

It does not work any longer with the introduction of auto-detected dependencies. Version 6.12.23+ will have this fixed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package boinc - 6.12.26+dfsg-1

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boinc (6.12.26+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version.

boinc (6.12.25+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Changed init dependencies to $all which may help speeding up the
    boot process and grants time initialising CUDA when kdm is also
    installed.

  * Also granting the boinc user access to the X display by invoking
    xhost +local:boinc if xhost is installed. The package providing
    the tool, i.e. x11-xserver-utils, is now suggested as a runtime
    dependency.

  This with some likelihood (Closes: #557871, #596656) (lp: #587426,
  lp: #414244, lp: #525241). It remains yet untested because of a lack
  of respective hardware. Many thanks go to Skip for keeping up the
  spirit to address this.

  * Upstream has fixed build failure on hurd.

boinc (6.12.22+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * First attempt to fix compilation on HURD.
  * Added debconf it.po (Closes: #619436).
  * Addressing lintian errors on python paths/versions.
  * Removing *.la files (Closes: #621197).

boinc (6.12.18+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version.

boinc (6.12.15+dfsg-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * New pt_BR.po file contributed by Adriano Rafael Gomes
    (Closes: #610407).
  * Added explicit dependency on python.

boinc (6.12.15+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * 2nd attempt to correct XML error in config (Closes: #610638)

boinc (6.12.14+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version.
  * Migration from experimental to unstable.

boinc (6.12.8+dfsg-7) experimental; urgency=low

  * Fixed cc_config.xml, reported by Nelson (Closes: #610638).

boinc (6.12.8+dfsg-6) experimental; urgency=low

  * Explicitly giving binary-arch target (Closes: #609428).
  * Helping init file to remain compatible with renice
    that does not understand "-n" (as in sarge) (Closes: #600134).

boinc (6.12.8+dfsg-5) experimental; urgency=low

  * Added python to build dependencies (Closes: #608895).
  * Renamed package 'boinc-server' to 'boinc-server-maker'.
  * Added Danish .po contributed by Joe Daldon (Closes: #597774).

boinc (6.12.8+dfsg-4) experimental; urgency=low

  * Completely removing quilt from debian/* (Closes: #608639).
  * Added libnotify-dev and libmysqlclient-dev as build dependency.

boinc (6.12.8+dfsg-3) experimental; urgency=low

  * Reworked the boinc-server.links
  * More towards lintian cleanliness

boinc (6.12.8+dfsg-2) experimental; urgency=low

  * Developing the server package further.
  * Added libtool as build dependency (Closes: #608509).

boinc (6.12.8+dfsg-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * Simplified debian/rules.
  * boinc package is now architecture-independent
 -- Jean-Louis Dupond <email address hidden> Wed, 04 May 2011 14:20:17 +0000

[LAZA (laza74)]

Seems for me this bug is NOT fixed.

Working here with

Xubuntu 12.04.1
Boinc 7.0.27+dfsg-5ubuntu0.12.04.1

The ppa package from

http://ppa.launchpad.net/pkg-boinc/ppa/ubuntu

is also active, but the Ubuntu-Package is newer/version higher.

Solution:

sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart