boinc-client service should start after gdm

[Jérôme]

I noticed that boinc-client service started as soon as remote and local file systems are available.

However this default behaviour slows down the startup until the end user gets the graphical login prompt.

I think that the default behaviour should wait until the graphical login manager started (gdm, xdm, lxdm, ...). I would make the user feel that the system is faster.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

please run apport-collect 820246

[Jérôme (jerome-bouat)]

I uninstalled boinc-client. Should I install it again for this test ?

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

yes, please install it on ubuntu oneiric and try to reproduce the bug. Thanks

[Jérôme (jerome-bouat)]

It seems that the boinc client still be launched at early steps :
----------
j@lu64:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
j@lu64:~$ ls /etc/rc5.d/
README S20virtualbox-guest-utils S99grub-common S99rc.local
S20boinc-client S75sudo S99ondemand
j@lu64:~$
----------

Maybe a 'S98boinc-client' link name would be more efficient.

[Steffen Möller (moeller-debian)]

On 11/12/2011 07:01 PM, Jérôme wrote:
> It seems that the boinc client still be launched at early steps :
> ----------
> j@lu64:~$ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu 11.10
> Release: 11.10
> Codename: oneiric
> j@lu64:~$ ls /etc/rc5.d/
> README S20virtualbox-guest-utils S99grub-common S99rc.local
> S20boinc-client S75sudo S99ondemand
> j@lu64:~$
> ----------
>
> Maybe a 'S98boinc-client' link name would be more efficient.

Correct me if I am wrong (well, you will correct me, I have little doubt),
but those link names I understand to be set at install time, not by the
package.

$ head -13 debian/*boinc*init
#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: boinc
# Required-Start: $all
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: BOINC core client
# Description: core client for the BOINC distributed computing
# infrastructure
### END INIT INFO

While looking at this ... we do not need boinc to start on 2 and 3, right?
And should we possibly stop at 2 ?

Cheers,

Steffen

[Jérôme (jerome-bouat)]

I don't know what should be in runlevels 2 and 3.

boinc-client is able to perform a computation even if it has no access to the Internet (network insulated runlevel should not prevent boinc-client to work although the admin would like to stop it).

[Steffen Möller (moeller-debian)]

Those run levels are interpreted differently across distributions as it seems. I have further changed above dependencies to

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: boinc
# Required-Start: $all
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs
# Should-Start: x11-common, network-manager, gdm, kdm, dbus
# Should-Stop: x11-common
# Default-Start: 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 2 3 6
# Short-Description: BOINC core client
# Description: core client for the BOINC distributed computing
# infrastructure
### END INIT INFO

And if this does not do it then organise a CUDA machine to be donated to me, please, or someone please send the right patch.

Steffen

[Jérôme (jerome-bouat)]

Maybe we could add the below lines to the file /etc/init/boinc-client.conf on oneiric version :
---
description "BOINC core Client"
start on (runlevel [45] and filesystem and login-session-start)
stop on (desktop-shutdown or runlevel [!45])
...
---

[Steffen Möller (moeller-debian)]

On 12/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jérôme wrote:
> Maybe we could add the below lines to the file /etc/init/boinc-client.conf on oneiric version :
> ---
> description "BOINC core Client"
> start on (runlevel [45] and filesystem and login-session-start)
> stop on (desktop-shutdown or runlevel [!45])
> ...
> ---
>

I am afraid I need an explicit patch for me to guess what to do :) There is no /etc/init on my system. Daniel?

Cheers,
Steffen

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hi Steffen could you explain this commit?
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-boinc/boinc.git;a=commitdiff;h=e14ea0de54a3012476fc06e21fe7a19c454eb6c7
somewhere your fix should have broke something