boinc-manager startup program fails to log in

[TheCat]

Binary package hint: boinc-manager

I added "boincmgr" to "System - Preferences - Sessions - Startup Programs." When logging in to Ubuntu, BOINC Manager starts and pops up an error which says:

BOINC Manager - Connection Error
The password you have provided is incorrect, please try again.

The BOINC Manager does not connect to any projects.

Note that it runs fine when started with the launcher in the menu. It would be nice if this could be fixed, so I could run BOINC automatically on login.

[Frank S. Thomas (fst)]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:49, TheCat wrote:
> I added "boincmgr" to "System - Preferences - Sessions - Startup
> Programs." When logging in to Ubuntu, BOINC Manager starts and pops up
> an error which says:
>
> BOINC Manager - Connection Error
> The password you have provided is incorrect, please try again.
>
> Note that it runs fine when started with the launcher in the menu. It
> would be nice if this could be fixed, so I could run BOINC automatically
> on login.

The problem with adding boincmgr to "Startup Programs" is that the program
is executed in your home directory. When the BOINC Manager is started with
the launcher from the menu, it is executed in Ubuntu's (Debian's) default
BOINC data directory /var/lib/boinc-client.

The difference between these two scenarios is that in the latter boincmgr can
read the password (that is needed for controlling the client) from the
gui_rpc_auth.cfg file. In the first scenario boincmgr don't know where to
find this file.

The real solution to this issue is patching boincmgr to store the password in
it's config file, which was also requested in http://bugs.debian.org/369698

However, there are tow interim solutions for your problem:
1. Remove the password from /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg

or

2. Create a file called run_boincmgr which contains these tow lines:

#!/bin/sh
cd /var/lib/boinc-client && exec boincmgr "$@"

put it in your home directory, make it executable and use "./run_boincmgr"
instead of "boincmgr" in "Startup Programs".

Grüße,
Frank
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[Greg A (etulfetulf)]

Upstream (BOINC and Debian) have both refused to fix this (see the attached bug reports).

[Nicolás Alvarez (nicolas-alvarez)]

Related, but not quite (since I suggest quite a different solution): #347651