Bug#476784: boinc-manager: boincmgr -s doesn't work

[Bill Wohler]

Package: boinc-manager
Version: 5.10.45-2
Severity: normal

While boincmgr works fine, adding the -s to add an icon to the system
tray does not:

    $ boincmgr -s
    connect: Operation now in progress
    [Hangs here]

I'm not sure if this useful, but I stumbled across the following after
running boinctray, which does work.

    $ boinctray&
    $ boincmgr -s
    connect: Operation now in progress
    The program 'boincmgr' received an X Window System error.
    This probably reflects a bug in the program.
    The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
      (Details: serial 766 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
      (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
       that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
       To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
       option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
       backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

By the way, any thoughts on why boincmgr shows the correct SETI at Home
icons and images when run from the menus, but shows the BOINC icon and
image when run from the command line? Looking at the menu's properties,
there do not appear to be any arguments passed to boincmgr.

Here is the verbose output (although I get the same ones for "boincmgr"
which does work):

    [wohler at olgas:614]$ boincmgr -s --verbose
    23:21:35: looking for catalog 'wxstd' in path '/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/en_GB:/usr/share/locale:/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/en_GB:/usr/share/locale:/usr/lib/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/lib/locale/en_GB:/usr/lib/locale:/usr/local/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/local/share/locale/en_GB:/usr/local/share/locale:./en_GB/LC_MESSAGES:./en_GB:.:/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/en:/usr/share/locale:/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/en:/usr/share/locale:/usr/lib/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/lib/locale/en:/usr/lib/locale:/usr/local/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/local/share/locale/en:/usr/local/share/locale:./en/LC_MESSAGES:./en:.::'.
    23:21:35: catalog file for domain 'wxstd' not found.
    23:21:35: looking for catalog 'wxgtk' in path '/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/en_GB:/usr/share/locale:/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/en_GB:/usr/share/locale:/usr/lib/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/lib/locale/en_GB:/usr/lib/locale:/usr/local/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/local/share/locale/en_GB:/usr/local/share/locale:./en_GB/LC_MESSAGES:./en_GB:.:/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/en:/usr/share/locale:/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/en:/usr/share/locale:/usr/lib/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/lib/locale/en:/usr/lib/locale:/usr/local/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/local/share/locale/en:/usr/local/share/locale:./en/LC_MESSAGES:./en:.::'.
    23:21:35: catalog file for domain 'wxgtk' not found.
    23:21:35: looking for catalog 'BOINC Manager' in path 'locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES:locale/en_GB:locale::/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/en_GB:/usr/share/locale:/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/en_GB:/usr/share/locale:/usr/lib/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/lib/locale/en_GB:/usr/lib/locale:/usr/local/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/local/share/locale/en_GB:/usr/local/share/locale:./en_GB/LC_MESSAGES:./en_GB:.:locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:locale/en:locale::/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/en:/usr/share/locale:/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/en:/usr/share/locale:/usr/lib/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/lib/locale/en:/usr/lib/locale:/usr/local/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/local/share/locale/en:/usr/local/share/locale:./en/LC_MESSAGES:./en:.::'.
    23:21:35: catalog file for domain 'BOINC Manager' not found.
    connect: Operation now in progress


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (80, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages boinc-manager depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.7-10      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6                   4.3.0-3     The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwxbase2.6-0               2.6.3.2.2-2 wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI
ii  libwxgtk2.6-0                2.6.3.2.2-2 wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t

Versions of packages boinc-manager recommends:
ii  boinc-client                  5.10.45-2  core client for the BOINC distribu

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