I'm running opensuse 11 and it had boinc running for over a year now. 2 days ago I replaced my gpu with a boinc capable card. Everything went fine until I installed the latest ati driver.

Since then boinc can't connect to localhost anymore. I tried reinstalling boinc, but no luck...

What can I do?


PS: please give clear instructions, I'm an absolute linux noob.
Could it be the wrong system date and time that is causing the trouble? Will replacing the old card solve it?

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What was the last thing you installed? Yes, the ATI driver. So how about uninstalling the ATI driver and seeing if that fixes the problem? For then you have found your culprit... How to fix that is another thing, I am not going into that one.

But please people, if you install something and your BOINC goes belly up after that, isn't the correct thing to do to uninstall what you installed latest, instead of trying to fix BOINC? It's not all of a sudden BOINC that changed, since it worked perfectly before you changed something about the system!!

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How did you install BOINC? From the package manager or from the Berkeley .sh file?

What it sounds like is that the core client is either not starting or crashing.

When you're getting the can't connect to local host message, open a terminal windows and type

top

and then hit enter. Do you see BOINC anywhere on the list? It might be called something like boinc-client (I'm not an OpenSuse person, so I don't know for sure).

Have you tried uninstalling the ATI drivers? That's the thing that changed. If uninstalling let's BOINC run, then we've pinpointed the cause. And I'll try to find someone who knows the distro (and ATI cards) better than I do.

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Kathryn :o)

You don't say what your last GPU was, or wether you uninstalled it's drivers, or what version of Boinc you're using,
if you're got Nvidia drivers installed, uninstall them.

Under windows, if you had Nvidia and ATI drivers (later than Cat 10.3) both installed (and/or GPU's present)
recent boinc clients would then crash on start, and if you tried to do any offline runs on ATI apps they would crash too,
under Windows the latest version of Boinc detects the ATI SIGGEV violation, and then will ignore the ATI GPU,
so allowing the client to start and the Manager to connect to it,

If you're not running the latest recommended version, try Boinc 6.10.58

Claggy