boinc not showing web prefs in manager

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Anonymous
13 Jun 2020 22:42:21 UTC
Topic 222834
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    in boinc-manager I am not seeing use web-prefs in computing preferences.  This is occurring on one pc only - a pi 4 8GB running ubuntu 20.    All others have that option present.  

    Keith Myers
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    Reboot the Pi and try again? 

    14 Jun 2020 1:16:07 UTC
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      Reboot the Pi and try again?  What version of BOINC?

       

      Anonymous

      keith, boinc version

      14 Jun 2020 1:29:28 UTC
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        keith,

        boinc version 7.14.2 and I have rebooted it and removed reinstalled boinc.  I should mention that the pi in question is in a 24 hour delay.  not sure if that would have an impact or not.  

        Keith Myers
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        The only thing I can think of

        14 Jun 2020 3:13:58 UTC
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          The only thing I can think of is some GTK or WxWidgets graphical dependency missing in Ubuntu 20.04.

          I don't think that being in a 24 hr timeout could impact the display elements.

          Very strange. The only solution I could offer is a newer version of BOINC, like the 7.16.6 version.

           

          Anonymous

          keith,I have fixed my

          15 Jun 2020 0:21:49 UTC
          Message 178515
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            keith,

            I have fixed my problem but have no idea why this had any effect.  I was in  a 24 hour timeout with ~5 hours remaining.  After reading other threads on the subject I came away with changing an attribute "Suspend when non Boinc cpu usage ...."  I changed that and no effect.  I had also read that you had to "earn your way out of a timeout".  But how?  I then installed on this Pi 4 N30DGs app and a couple of things happened.  I got two WUs:  hsgamaFGRP5 and my button "Use Web Preferences" under computation preferences returned.

            I would really have disliked waiting another 5 hours for the timeout session to have expired and seen no improvement.  At this point I do not know if completion of the timeout would have fixed it or not.  

            Keith Myers
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            Hmm, I don't remember the Web

            15 Jun 2020 7:14:59 UTC
            Message 178518 in response to message 178515
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              Hmm, I don't remember the Web Preferences disappearing in the Manager the last time I got put into a timeout at Einstein.  I was testing a new BRP4 gpu app a few years back I was trying and managed to error out enough tasks to get put into a 72 hr timeout.  Wasn't 24 hours for me.  But I did nothing but wait it out and I got more work that finally validated.

              Glad you got it working.

               

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