Package: boinc-manager Version: 7.2.7+dfsg-1 Severity: important While installing boinc-manager, the file /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg is created empty. While starting boinc-manager without parameters, it gives "Retrieving current status" and then "Unable to connect to the core client".
This message does not help the user to understand that the problem is that he didn't gave a password in /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg and that this password should be given to boincmgr using the -p argument. I think the message "Unable to connect to the core client" may be more verbose about the potentials problems and solutions (client offline, wrong password, unconfigured password, ....). And I think the fact that user have to put a password in gui_rpc_auth.cfg, the format used by the file, etc should be documented (I searched and didn't find any documentation about this, if it's actually documented, documentation is too hard to find for a normal user). -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.13-grsec-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
