On 23/07/2020 17:41, Terry Coles wrote: > On Thursday, 23 July 2020 17:29:45 BST Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: >> I was wondering if any of you have run BOINC and/or Folding on Ubuntu >> 20.04 or a derivative. I'm thinking of Upgrading my desktop from Mint >> 19.3 to 20 soon, and it'd be good to know if I'm likely to experience >> problems with these first :) > I'm running BOINC on Kubuntu 20.04. The client runs well, but I had problems > with BOINC Manager because it occasionally refused to load after a reboot. I > fixed it by adding a '-a' switch to the launcher in Plasma: > > boincmgr -a > > According to the man page, this tells the BOINC Manager that it was started > by > the operating system automatically. > > On odd occasions, I have found that I had to start the Manager with sudo, to > start another instance. Closing it again seems to allow me to launch in the > normal way. > > As a precaution, I usually close the BOINC Manager before shutting down. > In case anyone else is interested, both BOINC and Folding work for me, but the Folding client GUI doesn't because it uses old Python 2 stuff. The solution is to use the web client instead, which works just fine.
Hamish
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