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Message 852773 - Posted: 12 Jan 2009, 22:34:11 UTC

How do I get boinc to save the preferences?

I go to Advanced > Preferences.. to open the BOINC Manager - Prefrences. But anything I change does not get saved. It just ignores my changing of the preferences and sets them back to some default that's using just about all my resources.

Here's what I'm looking at if that helps any. - 2560x1024 (PNG 952 KB)

I can't figure out why it doesn't let me save preferences. All my other computers do without a problem.

I'm not sure what all info I should provide.. if it's not found in the snapshot, ask and I'll post it.
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Message 852778 - Posted: 12 Jan 2009, 22:53:49 UTC - in response to Message 852773.  

What are the permissions on your BOINC Data directory set to?

And am I reading that correctly, are you running BOINC as root?
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Message 852986 - Posted: 13 Jan 2009, 10:09:36 UTC - in response to Message 852778.  

What are the permissions on your BOINC Data directory set to?

data directory is located .... ?
And am I reading that correctly, are you running BOINC as root?

yes
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Message 852991 - Posted: 13 Jan 2009, 10:43:54 UTC - in response to Message 852986.  

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Message 852993 - Posted: 13 Jan 2009, 11:13:00 UTC - in response to Message 852986.  
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What are the permissions on your BOINC Data directory set to?

data directory is located .... ?

wherever you put it.
Exit and restart BOINC, then if you can (open BOINC Manager and) read the messages, it'll tell you where you put the data directory.

And am I reading that correctly, are you running BOINC as root?

yes

And why? Running as root is a very insecure and bad thing to do.
Just install and run BOINC with a user account, it'll do all and everything without a problem under a user account.

see http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_on_Linux for the normal run-down on installing and running BOINC on Linux. There is really no reason whatsoever to run BOINC as root, ever.
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Message 853015 - Posted: 13 Jan 2009, 13:57:44 UTC - in response to Message 852993.  

Oddly on my other comp.. BOINC will only run as root, it fails to connect unless ran as root, so I've just been doing the same with all my other computers till I ran into this one running debian.. and I've never ran into so many errors as with this OS.
I think I mostly have it running now though.
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