• boinc permission problems

    From Grimble@2:250/1 to All on Thu Mar 23 15:16:18 2023
    Need some help with boinc permission problems please.
    systemctl status boincmgr.service gives
    gstate.init() failed with error -192. Google thinks this means "unable
    to write to client_state.xml file"
    BUT: boinc user exists, and I (graeme) am a member of boinc group
    # cd /var/lib
    [root@haydn lib]# ls -l|grep boinc
    drwxr-xr-x 5 boinc graeme 4096 Mar 23 14:25 boinc/
    # cd boinc
    # ls -l
    -rw-rw---- 1 boinc graeme 3360 Feb 24 18:59 account_einstein.phys.uwm.edu.xml
    -rw-rw---- 1 boinc graeme 926 Mar 12 11:59 account_milkyway.cs.rpi.edu_milkyway.xml
    -rw-rw---- 1 boinc graeme 55853 Feb 28 09:48 all_projects_list.xml
    -rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 286697 Mar 23 14:21 client_state_prev.xml
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 boinc graeme 286697 Mar 23 14:25 client_state.xml
    -rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 3179 Mar 23 14:25 coproc_info.xml

    Furthermore, if I su to boinc:
    cd /var/lib/boinc
    -bash-5.1$ ls -l
    drw-rw---- 6 boinc graeme 4096 Mar 12 11:50 slots/
    cd slots
    -bash: cd: slots: Permission denied
    -bash-5.1$

    boincmgr is now running if started as root
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    Grimble
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