The title says it all.

I apologize in advance. I am not sharpest tool when it comes to computers.
I do enjoy BOINC but my understanding, and usage, is rather basic.

For the past 2 months, I have had trouble using BOINC.
The only project that I use is the World Community Grid.

Both my old and new computer don't run anything when I try getting tasks, etc.
I even did a clean install of my entire computer.
The problem remains.
BOINC and World Community Grid are unresponsive.

I did see a notice on the BOINC page reading ". . . there will be no new tasks at least until the end of February."

Does that mean all of BOINC is down until then? Or is it only for a select few programs?
Or am I doing something wrong?

Here are my hardware and software stats:

Mint 22.1 - Mate 1.26.2
i3 cpu 540 at 3.07ghz
CPU - 4 - Thread(s) per core: 2 - Core(s) per socket: 2
4gb ram

BOINC 7.24.1+dfsg-4build1 (it won't launch even if I click on it in the MATE menu)

I did ensure that the groups BOINC and Whore (my Mint account) are check marked in Mint's "Users and Groups" and yes, my Mint account is sudo, if that matters.

Even if BOINC server is down, then the program should still launch from my desktop if I click "Launch".

Correct?

I am stuck and appreciate any help.

Thank you.

BOINC by itself won't do anything, it'll require you to add projects, and those projects require to have the correct science applications for your operating system, and to have work for those science applications.

If you're using Science United, make sure that the projects it has presently added have work.

WCG has work at the moment, both mapping cancer markers and Africa rainfall project. The latter is a bit on and off and you will be limited by RAM as to the number of tasks you can run.

Ok, after a month or two, I decided to check this again . . . and I noticed in BOINC, when I click the "Project" tab then the "Update" option, it says what it said last time: Communication Deferred.

Can anyone explain what is happening?
Why can't I get work tasks?

I've used this computer for years, for Mapping Cancer (World Community Grid), and never had this problem.

I have ample hdd space.
I don't know what is happening.

Thank you.

With the project selected, is there anything in the Status colum (eg- Won't get new Tasks or Suspended by User?). If not, then you need to select the Advanced View (View, Advanced), then select Tools, Event log.
Exit BOINC, wait 30 seconds, then restart it. Wait a minute or so, then Copy and paste the log here.

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Grant
Darwin NT.

Can anyone explain what is happening?
Why can't I get work tasks?

Click on Tools>event log
If there is no work available at the time you update, there will be a message to that effect.

Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:14:57 GMT | World Community Grid | Requesting new tasks for CPU and AMD/ATI GPU
Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:14:58 GMT | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:14:58 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for the applications you have selected
Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:14:58 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for Africa Rainfall Project
Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:14:58 GMT | World Community Grid | Your preferences allow tasks from applications other than those selected
Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:14:58 GMT | World Community Grid | Sending tasks from other applications

is an example. If I then tick the box in the home profile on the project's website to allow tasks of types other than ARP I get,

Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:15:00 GMT | World Community Grid | Started download of MCM1_0233378_1807_MCM1_0233378_1807.txt
Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:15:00 GMT | World Community Grid | Started download of e55b6bdba4ed0b4b6e315c6767d68e3f.txt
Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:15:01 GMT | World Community Grid | Finished download of MCM1_0233378_1807_MCM1_0233378_1807.txt (912 bytes)
Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:15:51 GMT | World Community Grid | Finished download of e55b6bdba4ed0b4b6e315c6767d68e3f.txt (48177891 bytes)
Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:15:52 GMT | World Community Grid | Starting task MCM1_0233378_1807_0

After the messages about having changed my preferences. However even the supply of MCM tasks is a little erratic and I don't always get any.

Edit: this feels to me more an issue with WCG than with BOINC. Might be worth asking over on their forums.

Ok, exiting it, then returning to it and waiting a few minutes seemed to work. Thank you!