Package: boinc-manager Version: 7.6.33+dfsg-10 Severity: normal When configuring a boinc-client on localhost (or tunneled through ssh) boincmgr stopped working recently. According to my records (looking at the timestamps on /etc/boinc-client/global_prefs_override.xml and comparing it to dpkg.log) it seems that version 7.6.33+dfsg-6 worked correctly and sometime between that and 7.6.33+dfsg-10 it broke.
I expect "boincmgr -n 127.0.0.1", I don't expect that I should be required to run "boincmgr -n 127.0.0.1 -d /etc/boinc-client". boincmgr(1) isn't particularly clear either, "data_dir" meaning configuration dir is unexpected and confusing (I tried both -e and -d to see which one worked). Perhaps an example of the options would be good. Also boingmgr shouldn't just say "Disconnected" at the bottom of the screen if it can't manage to connect. It should give the user some clue as to what went wrong. Even when run with "--verbose" it gives nothing to stdout/stderr and nothing more informative in the GUI display. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages boinc-manager depends on: ii boinc-client 7.6.33+dfsg-10 ii libboinc7 7.6.33+dfsg-10 ii libc6 2.24-9 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-9 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.31-2 ii libnotify4 0.7.7-1+b1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.16.2-3 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-9 ii libwxbase3.0-0v5 3.0.2+dfsg-3 ii libwxgtk-webview3.0-0v5 3.0.2+dfsg-3 ii libwxgtk3.0-0v5 3.0.2+dfsg-3 boinc-manager recommends no packages. Versions of packages boinc-manager suggests: ii libgl1-mesa-glx 13.0.5-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1 -- no debconf information
