Hi, I'm trying to get BOINC running on an old PC of mine that has a headless version of Fedora 20 on it. I can get into the box fine, but I'm trying to connect it to BOINC stats and I keep getting "Operation failed: Error -1".

The commands I've tried are

boinccmd --join_acct_mgr boincstats.com <username> <password>

AND

boinccmd --join_acct_mgr boincstats.com <weakautnenticator> randomstring

Anyone else run into this?

http://boincstats.com is as far as I know just the BOINCStats page, it isn't the address for the BOINC Account Manager BAM!

Instead use:

boinccmd --join_acct_mgr http://bam.boincstats.com username passwd

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Thanks, but... no change.

In case it matters, yes, I've tested overall internet connectivity.

You have a username and password at BAM!?
You are using the boinccmd command from the directory that it's working in? So e.g. if your BOINC client working directory is at /var/lib/boinc, cd into that before issuing the boinccmd command.

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Yes, I have a username and password at BAM. I've had it for years. I can log into it on my windows machine, so I know the pass is good.

And yes, I'm using the boinccmd command from /var/lib/boinc (which is where I have boinc installed).

Even trying to attach directly to individual projects gets me this same error... This is somewhat frustrating.

Is there more information needed? I'm kind of at a loss as to where to go or what to try at this point?

And yes, I'm using the boinccmd command from /var/lib/boinc (which is where I have boinc installed).

What do you mean you have BOINC installed in that directory? Are the BOINC binaries in that directory, or are the project files there?

Going by past threads, it's a permission problem. Either a missing password (read from gui_rpc_auth.cfg, or because you're in the wrong working directory. The working directory under Fedora is /var/lib/boinc/, but only the project files should be here, not the BOINC binaries. See http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_BOINC_on_Fedora for whic h directories should be used by what.

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Maybe there is something wrong with the way BOINC is installed?

When I run: ps aux | grep boinc

I get:

boinc 727 0.0 0.1 6568 2356 ? SNs Dec26 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/boinc --dir /var/lib/boinc
boinc 729 0.0 0.5 48032 11188 ? SNl Dec26 2:15 /usr/bin/boinc_client --allow_multiple_clients --dir /var/lib/boinc

But that wiki page you posted says I should have " boinc_client --daemon " somewhere in that list, but I don't seem to.

I installed BOINC using the command at the top of that page, so I'm not sure what could be wrong, if something indeed is.

Ok, thank you for your patience, I have gotten this issue resolved.

While I thought I had set up the permissions properly, I guess I hadn't. I went through and tried the procedure listed on: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_BOINC_on_Fedora , and tried again. This time, I did not get any errors.