Bug#969247:

2020-10-29 Thread Marcos Raúl Carot
"Boinc Manager is run as the local user and the file in question in not readable by any user outside of root and boinc group. Changing the file to world readable fixes the bug, but this might not be an ideal solution. Alternatives are running Boinc Manager elevated or a manual sudo to read the fil

Bug#969247: Cause of bug.

2020-10-22 Thread Ian Kester-Haney
Boinc Manager is run as the local user and the file in question in not readable by any user outside of root and boinc group. Changing the file to world readable fixes the bug, but this might not be an ideal solution. Alternatives are running Boinc Manager elevated or a manual sudo to read the file

Bug#969247: FIX: add /etc/boinc-client/config.properties

2020-10-19 Thread Marcos Raúl Carot
On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 19:08:25 +0200 Marcel Partap wrote: > .. so after some research, this happens due to these changes merged in March: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/3709 > > Fortunately, previous behaviour can easily be restored by adding a /etc/boinc-client/config.properties file containin

Bug#969247: FIX: add /etc/boinc-client/config.properties

2020-09-24 Thread Marcel Partap
.. so after some research, this happens due to these changes merged in March: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/3709 Fortunately, previous behaviour can easily be restored by adding a /etc/boinc-client/config.properties file containing: > data_dir=/var/lib/boinc That points boincmgr and boin

Bug#969247: boinc-manager: New version of boinc-manager fails to start with gui_rpc_auth.cfg not readable

2020-09-18 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hello, this is really strange, nothing changed in permissions... can you please try with a newer version? G. Il domenica 30 agosto 2020, 04:39:08 CEST, Dean Loros ha scritto: Package: boinc-manager Version: 7.16.15+dfsg.is.7.16.7+dfsg-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Re

Bug#969247: boinc-manager: New version of boinc-manager fails to start with gui_rpc_auth.cfg not readable

2020-08-29 Thread Dean Loros
Package: boinc-manager Version: 7.16.15+dfsg.is.7.16.7+dfsg-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Normal update to 7.16.15+dfsg is 7.16.10+dfsg+1. Afterwards, manager would not star