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Message 77280 - Posted: 10 Apr 2017, 19:39:31 UTC
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Hello guys and girls,

this is my first post - sorry if this had been already posted but didn't find this because I guess it's very specific.

I have some problems with Boinc on Linux (Mint) 18.1.
Boinc installed due to repository on Linux Mint (sudo apt-get install boinc) Version: 7.6.31

1. When PC is booting the Boinc Manager should start up automatically and connect to the Core client automatically because it's set into the "start-up-list" on Linux . Even when I set the delay to a few seconds the Manager always says "can not connect" or "disconnected". I have to manually start Boinc Manager.
2. I set the "use CPU time" to 50 % on my Notebook. But it uses 100 % all the time. Only when I close and restart Boinc it's crunching by presetting.
3. Sometimes when I close the Manager I can not reopen it by clicking on the icon. I have to start the Manager via shell/terminal by typing in "Boinc".

Any solutions?
Thank you!
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Message 77281 - Posted: 10 Apr 2017, 22:40:52 UTC - in response to Message 77280.  
Last modified: 10 Apr 2017, 22:44:14 UTC

Hello guys and girls,

this is my first post - sorry if this had been already posted but didn't find this because I guess it's very specific.

I have some problems with Boinc on Linux (Mint) 18.1.
Boinc installed due to repository on Linux Mint (sudo apt-get install boinc) Version: 7.6.31

1. When PC is booting the Boinc Manager should start up automatically and connect to the Core client automatically because it's set into the "start-up-list" on Linux . Even when I set the delay to a few seconds the Manager always says "can not connect" or "disconnected". I have to manually start Boinc Manager.
2. I set the "use CPU time" to 50 % on my Notebook. But it uses 100 % all the time. Only when I close and restart Boinc it's crunching by presetting.
3. Sometimes when I close the Manager I can not reopen it by clicking on the icon. I have to start the Manager via shell/terminal by typing in "Boinc".

Any solutions?
Thank you!


Hi ShootY welcome to boinc forums.

You'll need to be a little more specific if possible.

Confirm you only installed once from repos (and no other source)

The boinc manager (GUI) is started as boincmgr

The boinc client - which schedules tasks is normally started as a service at boot time, and should be named boinc

If you need to start the GUI from a command line use boincmgr not Boinc, i don't know why that restarts the manager.

How exactly are you restarting boinc (2.) (not the GUI but boinc client) ?

There may be some error messages in
a) boinc event log
b) in the ~/.BOINC/ directory

I might suggest you post them as described in the sticky threads.

There are a few of ways to autostart applications, you will need to be very specific about what you are try to autostart and when, I would leave that until you solve the other issues.

As a guess you need to add the user account you are using to login - to the group that is created during install called boinc, this solves a couple of issues for some distros.

Good luck.
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Message 77282 - Posted: 10 Apr 2017, 23:04:31 UTC - in response to Message 77281.  
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Hi ShootY welcome to boinc forums.

You'll need to be a little more specific if possible.

Confirm you only installed once from repos (and no other source)


Yes I only installed it once. I had the same problem a few days ago and tried to fix it and did a sudo apt-get purge boinc and did a clean reinstall after that.

The boinc manager (GUI) is started as boincmgr

Yes it's running an donly running once.

The boinc client - which schedules tasks is normally started as a service at boot time, and should be named boinc

If you need to start the GUI from a command line use boincmgr not Boinc, i don't know why that restarts the manager.

How exactly are you restarting boinc (2.) (not the GUI but boinc client) ?


I'm restarting it due to the terminal like this: /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart


There may be some error messages in
a) boinc event log
b) in the ~/.BOINC/ directory[

I might suggest you post them as described in the sticky threads.


Will have a look next time when there's the same problem again. Until now it's working so far. The only thing I did was a reboot.

There are a few of ways to autostart applications, you will need to be very specific about what you are try to autostart and when, I would leave that until you solve the other issues.


I added Boinc to the "Startup Application Preferences" - there I searched for Boinc after clicking on "Add".

As a guess you need to add the user account you are using to login - to the group that is created during install called boinc, this solves a couple of issues for some distros.

Good luck.


boincmgr is running as "me" - no other user. Or what do you mean exactly?

Thank you for your help! :)
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