I have 2 systems here, ipanema and saopaolo. Both running Debian testing/unstable, on a local LAN behind a Linksys BEFSR41 router. One fixed IP on the other side. Saopaolo runs fine, but when I try to start ipanema, I get:

[user]@ipanema:~/boinc$ ./boinc_3.18_i686-pc-linux-gnu &
2004-06-25 18:16:30 [---] Starting BOINC client version 3.18 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
2004-06-25 18:16:30 [SETI@home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2004-06-25 18:16:30 [SETI@home] Host ID is 29169
2004-06-25 18:16:30 [---] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 2004-06-23 22:33:41)
2004-06-25 18:16:30 [---] General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2004-06-25 18:16:30 [---] Suspending computation and network activity - user is active
[1] 526

Is it the single IP? Or what?

Thanks for your help!
- Larry.

p.s - Hunh. That's weird, a few minutes after I posted, 11 minutes after the client started, the client started asking for work:
2004-06-25 18:27:36 [---] Resuming computation and network activity
2004-06-25 18:27:36 [---] Fewer active results than CPUs; requesting more work
2004-06-25 18:27:38 [---] Fewer active results than CPUs; requesting more work
2004-06-25 18:27:38 [SETI@home] Requesting 86356 seconds of work
2004-06-25 18:27:38 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-06-25 18:27:39 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-06-25 18:27:39 [SETI@home] Message from server: No work available
2004-06-25 18:27:39 [SETI@home] Message from server: No work available
2004-06-25 18:27:39 [SETI@home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2004-06-25 18:27:39 [SETI@home] No work from project
2004-06-25 18:27:39 [SETI@home] No work from project
2004-06-25 18:27:39 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds

Didn't get any, but asked...

Duh!

Check your Boinc preferences, especially:

Do work while computer is in use? no

The "Suspending..." message is Boinc telling you it's suspending 'cause your computer is in use.

Perhaps the error message could be more clear, yes?

- Larry.