Bug 5953

Summary:	BOINC crashes with SIGSEGV error on startup
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Eric Brodrick <icbm>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, fundawang, mageia, supp
Version:	1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	boinc-client-6.10.58-1.1.mga1.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Eric Brodrick 2012-05-17 16:03:36 CEST

Description of problem:
When starting BOINC, whether from console or icon BOINC crashes with a SIGSEGV error, sometimes it will start in "Simple" view but crashes when switched to "Advanced"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Magiea 1, Nvidia V275.xx drivers, BOINC V6.10.58, Current CUDA files

How reproducible:
See Below

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Clean install of Mageia 1
2. Install Nvidia current drivers from repo
3. Install BOINC from repo
4. Try to start BOINC. Start from console with "./run_manager --verbose" command to see error message. (Ignore path error messages for wxstd, wxgtk and BOINC Manager. They do not effect the operation of the BOINC program and are there even on a working install.)

N.B. Bug only shows on a clean install of Magiea. It does not occur on an "upgrade" to Magiea from Mandriva 2010.1

System is Gigabyte GA-EX38-DS5 M/B, 4GB PC9600 RAM, E7200 processor, 2 x GTS250 video cards

Comment 1 Eric Brodrick 2012-05-17 16:06:08 CEST

The choice "component" in the drop down box is pretty awful. There were no choices there that really suit this problem

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-17 16:42:52 CEST

(In reply to comment #1)
> The choice "component" in the drop down box is pretty awful. There were no
> choices there that really suit this problem

well it's written, if you don't know use rpm package ;)

CC: sysadmin-bugs => fundawang, mageia, supp
Component: Release (media or process) => RPM Packages
Source RPM: BOINC 6.10.58 from Repo => boinc-client

Comment 3 Dave Hodgins 2012-05-17 21:07:44 CEST

Most likely a configuration issue, as it works here provided I'm in
~/BOINC.  I get the segfault if I'm not in that directory.

I'm running boinc under my own userid.  The default configuration of the
rpm package is to run it as the user boinc, so you would have to have that
user setup, su -l boinc, and cd to the right directory (/var/lib/boinc).

If you already have a boinc setup in ~/BOINC, try cding to that directory
and then running  /usr/bin/boinc_gui.

I normally just use
cd /home/dave/BOINC
/home/dave/BOINC/run_client >/dev/null &

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
Source RPM: boinc-client => boinc-client-6.10.58-1.1.mga1.src.rpm

Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2012-11-05 16:52:38 CET

This message is a reminder that Mageia 1 is nearing its end of life. 
In approximately 25 days from now, Mageia will stop maintaining and issuing 
updates for Mageia 1. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX (EOL) if it 
remains open with a Mageia 'version' of '1'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to 
fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later 
Mageia version prior to Mageia 1's end of life.

Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not 
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Comment 5 Manuel Hiebel 2012-12-02 14:32:07 CET

Mageia 1 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on ''1st December''. Mageia 1 is no 
longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or 
bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. 

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia 
please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia and reopen this bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX