The Scottish Boinc Team

A word of warning: Linux Mint seems to have its own ideas about how to run BOINC.

If you install BOINC 7.18.1 via the Linux Mint repository, or when you upgrade an existing BOINC-crunching Linux Mint 20.3, you are left with a non-working BOINC.

Via the Software Manager you can install the BOINC Manager version 7.20.2, which install itself in a hidden directory of the users HOME folder (in my case: /Home/Dirk/.var/app/edu.berkeley.BOINC)
That BOINC manager claims its data directory to be just /Home/<your username> in the boot up event log, but that is not my main irk.

• It does not recognize earlier BOINC installations,
• sees no installed virtual box,
• sees no Intel IGP (working perfectly in Mint 20.3),
• can't be contacted using BOINC Tasks.

I won't be rushing to upgrade then!

I've had issues every time I installed Mint 21 so I've been sticking with Mint 20

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Mon Nov 21, 2022 12:47 am I've had issues every time I installed Mint 21 so I've been sticking with Mint 20

I had some beef with Mint 20.3, too (mainly poor screen resolution for my Intel IGP, but also the 'ancient' glibc version 2.31*), mainly my reason to flee forward to Mint 21, but I think I try Manjaro Next, as advertised by AMD Users Linux guru, AMDave.

Believe it or not, Numberfields@home has an Intel GPU app, for both Windows and Linux, but....
* Update on the glibc problem (only applies to linux users):
"The root cause of the problem is that I upgraded my build system in the last year and now have a newer version of glibc. Anyone using a version of glibc older than 2.33 will have this problem."

3rd installation time lucky with Manjaro 21.3.7:

Asrock-J5005-iTX

1 11/23/2022 4:57:01 PM cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
2 11/23/2022 4:58:04 PM Starting BOINC client version 7.20.2 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
3 11/23/2022 4:58:04 PM This a development version of BOINC and may not function properly
4 11/23/2022 4:58:04 PM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
5 11/23/2022 4:58:04 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.86.0 OpenSSL/3.0.7 zlib/1.2.13 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.5.2 libidn2/2.3.4 libpsl/0.21.1 (+libidn2/2.3.4) libssh2/1.10.0 nghttp2/1.50.0
6 11/23/2022 4:58:04 PM Data directory: /var/lib/boinc
7 11/23/2022 4:58:04 PM OpenCL: Intel GPU 0: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 605 [0x3184] (driver version 22.30.23789, device version OpenCL 3.0 NEO, 3277MB, 3277MB available, 115 GFLOPS peak)
8 11/23/2022 4:58:04 PM libc: version 2.36
9 11/23/2022 4:58:04 PM Host name: Asrock-J5005-iTX
10 11/23/2022 4:58:04 PM Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) Silver J5005 CPU @ 1.50GHz [Family 6 Model 122 Stepping 1]
11 11/23/2022 4:58:04 PM Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperf
12 11/23/2022 4:58:04 PM OS: Linux ManjaroLinux: Manjaro Linux [5.19.17-2-MANJARO|libc 2.36]
13 11/23/2022 4:58:04 PM Memory: 15.04 GB physical, 0 bytes virtual
14 11/23/2022 4:58:04 PM Disk: 227.88 GB total, 204.82 GB free
15 11/23/2022 4:58:04 PM Local time is UTC +1 hours
16 11/23/2022 4:58:04 PM VirtualBox version: 7.0.2r154219