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.
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.
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.
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.
Reboot the Pi and try again?
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Reboot the Pi and try again? What version of BOINC?
keith, boinc version
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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.
The only thing I can think of
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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.
keith,I have fixed my
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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.
Hmm, I don't remember the Web
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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.