When I attempt to attach to the World Community Grid project I get: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ Master page download succeeded 01/11/06 03:16 pm http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ Sending scheduler request to https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/boinc/wcg_cgi/fcgi 01/11/06 03:16 pm http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ Reason: Requested by user 01/11/06 03:16 pm http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ Requesting 34560 seconds of work, returning 0 results 01/11/06 03:16 pm BOINC Can't resolve hostname [https] host not found 01/11/06 03:16 pm http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ Scheduler request failed: can't resolve hostname 01/11/06 03:16 pm http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ Scheduler request to https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/boinc/wcg_cgi/fcgi failed: can't resolve hostname 01/11/06 03:16 pm http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ Couldn't connect to URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/. Please check URL. 01/11/06 03:16 pm http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ Resetting project 01/11/06 03:16 pm BOINC request_reschedule_cpus: exit_tasks 01/11/06 03:16 pm http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ Detaching from project 01/11/06 03:16 pm All the other projects seem to attach fine, although they don't like my current architecture. emerge --info: Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo x86_64 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre13 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=opteron -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=opteron -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac acl acpi alsa apm arts async audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bl browserplugin bzip2 cdparanoia cdr crypt cscope css cups curl dbus dga directfb dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread edl eds elf emacs emboss encode esd exif expat fam fame fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran fuse gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glut gmp gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal howl idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java javascript jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal kerberos lcms ldap lesstif libcaca libg++ libwww lm_sensors logitech-mouse lua lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mikmod mjpeg mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer musepack musicbrainz mysql nas ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ntlm_unsupported_patch odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pda pdflib perl png postgres ppds python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real rtc samba sasl sblive scanner sdl slang slp smp sndfile snmp spell sqlite ssl svg syslog tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora threads tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wifi wmf xanim xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xpm xprint xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS (Note that ssl is enabled globally.)
Evidently, this is a problem with the 4.72 version currently unmasked in portage. Others on the gentoo-user list report that this problem is gone in more recent versions compiled from scratch. Doesn't seem to be a gentoo bug, but rather something upstream (that's been fixed in more recent versions, anyway), so I'm going to go ahead and resolve my own bug. I'll unmask the 5.2.14 version in portage and test it some. Please unmask it as soon as it is ready. (And make it ready soon. ;) )