Quake Catcher Network Sensor project crashes on start

[TheDreamer]

The Quake Catcher Network Sensor project application keeps failing under this version of BOINC.

The project administrator provided this:
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they're always failing with a bad segfault as you can see in your task lists e.g.:

http://qcn.stanford.edu/sensor/result.php?resultid=1127548

<core_client_version>7.0.24</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
process exited with code 193 (0xc1, -63)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
Stack trace (11 frames):
/usr/bin/boinc(boinc_catch_signal+0x65)[0x48f675]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x364c0)[0x7f31adabd4c0]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__strcat_chk+0x39)[0x7f31adb8ddb9]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x412a34]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x412b00]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x43163d]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x431adb]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x41a728]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x4712a4]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed)[0x7f31adaa876d]
/usr/bin/boinc[0x406a65]

</stderr_txt>
]]>

I imagine it's some incompatibility with your 64-bit-to-32-bit library, or maybe there is a bug in that boinc version (it bombs out on a "strcat" so maybe something is concatenating a string too long for some variable)
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Obtaining 7.0.25 binaries from boinc.berkeley.edu has fixed this problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: boinc-client 7.0.24+dfsg-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 19 07:19:24 2012
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: boinc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.boinc.client.cc.config.xml: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.boinc.client.global.prefs.override.xml: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.default.boinc.client: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.init.d.boinc.client: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.boinc.client.cc.config.xml: 2012-04-16T22:50:37.149836
mtime.conffile..etc.boinc.client.global.prefs.override.xml: 2012-04-15T16:19:05.591549
mtime.conffile..etc.default.boinc.client: 2012-04-18T22:49:44.023691
mtime.conffile..etc.init.d.boinc.client: 2012-04-16T23:09:58.339111

[Dave (xclusive585)]

To LOCUTUS OF BORG:

THIS looks like the SAME bug as my "computation error" bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boinc/+bug/991179

[TheDreamer (thedreamer-lhaven)]

Will this bug get fixed in 12.04LTS release or not?

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Please try boinc from my ppa
https://code.launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/boinc

this version is already in quantal and is gonna be backported into oneiric as well.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for boinc (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[TheDreamer (thedreamer-lhaven)]

So, this bug in 12.04LTS Beta won't ever get fixed in 12.04LTS....does that mean I should stay at 10.04LTS until 14.04LTS comes out?

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

I repeat, please try boinc from this ppa https://code.launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/boinc

the new version should fix this problem, and a SRU is already pending from quantal to precise.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Please test the package from https://launchpad.net/~pkg-boinc/+archive/testing instead - this will be the package to get into 12.04 most likely - at least it is pending for SRU currently.
It might be desired to get a more recent version instead - but please test if that issue is fixed with 7.0.27 already.

I am marking this as duplicate of bug 991179 - as suggested in Dave's comment.