Issue running BOINC on Fedora 12

[Wolfsburg18]

I have been trying to get BOINC to run on a Fedora 12 machine but am getting an error on the BOINC Manager of "Error Retrieving current status". I know that the client is running and have it set to auto start and that it is listening to 127.0.0.1:31416.

[xyz002@ossadmin ~]$ ps -ef | grep boinc*
boinc 1307 1 0 14:41 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/boinc_client --dir /var/lib/boinc
500 1974 1917 0 14:52 pts/0 00:00:00 grep boinc*

[xyz002@ossadmin ~]$ netstat -nat
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:31416 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:37214 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 8 10.168.225.114:50227 10.168.225.39:24800 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 ::1:631 :::* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 :::111 :::* LISTEN

Help from any of the linux experts in the group would be appreciated. I have not had any machines up and crunching for almost a year because of moving and remodeling my house. It is time to get started again.

[D_A]

Is the manager you're using on the same machine or a remote client?

[Wolfsburg18]

Same machine

[PoppaGeek]

I did some searching and found someone who had same problem. This solved it for him.

Try following http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_BOINC_on_Fedora first. Make sure you've allowed BOINC through whatever firewall setup you have.

[D_A]

doh! I should have thought of that. I forget that some distros have their firewalls enabled by default.