BOINC's been running on my CrunchBang (a Debian based distro) laptop for a while, and suddenly it's stopped. It is an old laptop and has some issues, but this is a first. Here's the output when I try the 'boinc' command:

$ boinc
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---] No config file found - using defaults
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.0.27 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.26.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1e zlib/1.2.7 libidn/1.25 libssh2/1.4.2 librtmp/2.3
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---] Data directory: /home/redwolf
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---] Processor: 2 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-53 [Family 15 Model 104 Stepping 1]
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---] Processor: 256.00 KB cache
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch lbrv
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---] OS: Linux: 3.2.0-4-amd64
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---] Memory: 937.94 MB physical, 1.87 GB virtual
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---] Disk: 144.87 GB total, 132.42 GB free
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---] Local time is UTC -4 hours
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---] No usable GPUs found
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---] No general preferences found - using defaults
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---] Preferences:
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---]    max memory usage when active: 468.97MB
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---]    max memory usage when idle: 844.15MB
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---]    max disk usage: 10.00GB
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---]    don't use GPU while active
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---]    suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---]    (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
dir_open: Could not open directory 'slots'.
 
 
25-May-2013 20:19:23 [---] GUI RPC bind to port 31416 failed: 98
gstate.init() failed
Error Code: -180

Any help? I don't know what to do to fix this, and I had tasks running...

Not binding to port 31416 hints at a firewall/security software issue. BOINC uses this port to communicate to include between the GUI [BOINC Manager] and the daemon/service that controls the running sciences. RPC is the protocol used to communicate the instructions and output.

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Hmmm... Okay. I don't know how to fix that.

Since I have projects in play, I'd hate to uninstall and re-install, but that may be what fixes the issue... There is a newer version of the software available, so I may download that and try again. I'll search around for solutions as well. Thanks for the clarification.

boinc-manager is just a GUI, the boinc-client does all the scheduling and arranging. As long as you have that running, the projects will run their work. You can also tell boinc-client what to do with the BOINCCMD tool, if need be.

But otherwise, when the RPC bind is failing, make sure you didn't inadvertently try to start boinc-client or boinc-manager twice. The value 98 means that the port is already in use by something else.

See what this does:

lsof -i:31416

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