On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 22:52 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi Patrick and Craig; > > Thanks a million, I would and thousands of others would never have > guessed NetworkManager was BOINC's problem in a thousand years. > > On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:51 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 14:30 -0400, William Case wrote: > > > ---- > > I believe that what Patrick was trying to tell you is that if you are > > using NetworkManager, then it's entirely possible that networking isn't > > fully operational when boinc service starts at bootup which would cause > > it to fail. That can probably be verified by merely issuing > > '/sbin/service boinc restart' (assuming that restart is an option for > > the boinc sysv script). If that works, then it might just be easier to > > put that command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (/sbin/service boinc restart) > > > > Craig > > > As I said, after re-installing Boinc and then re-booting, I ran a new > set of the work units to the end. No new units would download. > boincmgr complained about a lack of a connection -- BINGO. > > I re-booted just to see. No joy -- BINGO > > I then added '/sbin/service boinc-client restart' to /etc/rc.d/rc.local > and re-booted once again. --BINGO > > Everything was up and running. New work units were down loaded > automatically and boinc is happily processing away as I write. > > N.B. For anyone following this saga and has a similar problem notice > one correction. The line is '/sbin/service boinc-client restart', not > '/sbin/service boinc restart'. > > Re: Bug reporting. I think this bug is worth reporting, although you > probably know better which details to report regarding NetworkManager. > Some poor unlucky shmuck could get caught from 2 days to a week trying > to figure out what was wrong. > > Once again, thanks very much to both of you, and the others that tried > to give me a hand. ---- report it just like you did above...if the packager has questions, he'll ask but I would suggest that you file it against NetworkManager package. It's important to work out all of the issues with NetworkManager to solve them once and for all. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
