All that boinc-client does is crash. How can I diagnose this?

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I repeatedly observe:

My Environment

Transaction ID : 572
Begin time     : 2026-04-23 09:12:52
Begin rpmdb    : 68a85ed1f4126111c2c0c16d269adb47a3d2786502260eb38250299ba19f2928
End time       : 2026-04-23 09:12:54
End rpmdb      : eaa2ee2fac92e9337432815aa301caa20c20d0f0f2a13009bcfe1523e1d611cd
User           : 1000 Mr. Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell (RJLB) <RokeJulianLockhart>
Status         : Ok
Releasever     : 43
Description    : dnf5 install boinc-manager
Comment        : 
Packages altered:
  Action  Package                             Reason     Repository
  Install boinc-manager-0:8.2.4-1.fc43.x86_64 User       updates
  Install wxGTK-webview-0:3.2.8-2.fc43.x86_64 Dependency fedora
  Install boinc-client-0:8.2.4-1.fc43.x86_64  Dependency updates

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The solution was to reinitialise boincmgr. ¹ I presume that I invoked it before boinc-client had finished configuring itself after installation, or similar. ²

Footnotes

1. bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2461083 ↩

2. bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2461082 ↩