Comment 1 for bug 179849

I've the same issue.

1. Open BOINC manager
2. Go to Advanced > Preferences and set options as shown in included screen shot
3. Tasks will stay as "Suspended - User active" even after 3 minutes of inactivity are passed

Also, boinc-client appears in my task manager but it never runs (I left the PC idle a long time and CPU was always at 0%).

I think BOINC is not detecting an idle PC properly.

Ubuntu 8.04.1 AMD64
Linux set 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 17:53:40 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

boinc-client boinc-manager 5.10.45-1ubuntu1