To start I'm a linux newbie. I love it so far but I'm still a newbie. I tried to set up an icon on the desktop to run it (for a little simplicity) but i forgot to check the run in terminal button.
Now I get this error message when I try to start boinc

2004-11-27 15:47:40 [---] Another instance of BOINC is running

i tried the ps command and top command but cannot find the process that is running. Any help would be great.

I just tried running it after logging on with su and it works...but why won't it run when i'm logged off of su. I think my permissions are right (jt is the normal user account):

-rwxr-xr-x 1 jt users 9461209 2004-11-27 00:10 boinc_4.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu

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The problem is (most likely) that boinc can't write it's lockfiles.

If you installed as root, you have no write access to the boinc files as a normal user.

You'd have to give yourself read/write permissions for everything in the boinc dir
and it's subdirs.

Should be doable from gnome or KDE desktop.

Regards Hans

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> The problem is (most likely) that boinc can't write it's lockfiles.
>
> If you installed as root, you have no write access to the boinc files as a
> normal user.
>
> You'd have to give yourself read/write permissions for everything in the boinc
> dir
> and it's subdirs.
>
> Should be doable from gnome or KDE desktop.
>
> Regards Hans
>

Thanks that worked. Now I'm gonna see if I can lower the permissions some if at all.

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