Package: boinc-manager Version: 7.6.33+dfsg-11 Followup-For: Bug #858187 I had the same problem. After I removed the gui_rpc_auth.cfg in my home directory, boincmgr worked fine. I guess I set a password at some point.
-- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (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 Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages boinc-manager depends on: ii boinc-client 7.6.33+dfsg-11 ii libboinc7 7.6.33+dfsg-11 ii libc6 2.24-10 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-14 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.31-2 ii libnotify4 0.7.7-2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.16.2-3 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-14 ii libwxbase3.0-0v5 3.0.2+dfsg-4 ii libwxgtk-webview3.0-0v5 3.0.2+dfsg-4 ii libwxgtk3.0-0v5 3.0.2+dfsg-4 boinc-manager recommends no packages. Versions of packages boinc-manager suggests: ii libgl1-mesa-glx 13.0.6-1+b2 ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1 -- no debconf information -- Dale Harris rod...@maybe.org rod...@gmail.com /.-)