Has anyone got boinc to work on 6

[roly]

I can install boinc on my raspberry pi's, but cannot get it to run on 6 on my main PC?
roly

[nigelc]

Hi,
I am using boinc on Mageia 6. I am using the boinc from the web site. When I first started it on Magea 6 it was hogging all the cpu time on every CPU
There is a setting to change it. It was working fine on mageia 5.
The cli version reports any error it gets.

cheers.

[roly]

I tried boinc from the site but could not get it to run any better than the install from add/remove software. I have a older pc with an old dell monitor and had trouble to even get 6 to run on it.
Thanks for the reply.
roly

[laidlaws]

I have boinc working successfully on Mageia 6, both Cauldron and Official. We need more info. Try to start boinc in an xterm, and post the reply here. One tip: boinc runs as user boinc; your normal user can't start it. Add yourself to the boinc group (created by the installer,) and reboot.

[nigelc]

When I try to run boinc from the mageia repo I get this"

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line 5: /var/log/boinc.log: Permission denied
[nigel@endor ~]$

ls -l /var/log/boinc.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 6727 Aug 21 15:10 /var/log/boinc.log






[isadora]

Wild guess: adding user to adm-group.

[doktor5000]

If you are not the boinc user then you obviously cannot write to the log file, if there's no ACL set on that file (could be checked with getfacl /var/log/boinc.log ).
But how do you start boinc in the first place, your output doesn't show the important part at all ...

From what I can see it should be started as root via

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systemctl start boinc-client.service

if it's not started yet. You can check the status via

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systemctl status boinc-client.service -al -n100

[nigelc]

Doktor5000,
I added user1 to boinc, user1 is where all the seti/boinc data lives.


Now the original one is corrupted

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user1@endor BOINC]$ ./boinc --show_projects
./boinc: /lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0: no version information available (required by ./boinc)
./boinc: /lib64/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by ./boinc)
./boinc: /lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0: no version information available (required by ./boinc)
23-Aug-2017 15:18:25 [---] cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
23-Aug-2017 15:18:25 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.2.42 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
23-Aug-2017 15:18:25 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
23-Aug-2017 15:18:25 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.54.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2l zlib/1.2.11 libssh2/1.7.0 nghttp2/1.9.2
23-Aug-2017 15:18:25 [---] Data directory: /home/user1/BOINC
boinc: /lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0: no version information available (required by boinc)
boinc: /lib64/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by boinc)
boinc: /lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0: no version information available (required by boinc)
23-Aug-2017 15:18:25 [---] No usable GPUs found
23-Aug-2017 15:18:25 [---] Host name: endor
23-Aug-2017 15:18:25 [---] Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4820K CPU @ 3.70GHz [Family 6 Model 62 Stepping 4]
23-Aug-2017 15:18:25 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm epb tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms xsaveopt dtherm ida arat pln pts
23-Aug-2017 15:18:25 [---] OS: Linux: 4.9.43-desktop-1.mga6
23-Aug-2017 15:18:25 [---] Memory: 23.47 GB physical, 8.03 GB virtual
23-Aug-2017 15:18:25 [---] Disk: 1.79 TB total, 1.25 TB free
23-Aug-2017 15:18:25 [---] Local time is UTC +10 hours
projects:
23-Aug-2017 15:18:25 [---] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ name: SETI@home
23-Aug-2017 15:18:25 [---] URL: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ name: Rosetta@home


[doktor5000]

What in particular is corrupted?

[nigelc]

I have now removed the boinc-client and it is running way it has for years using the stand alone boinc command.
It was getting an error "Unable to attach to project"

The boincmgr gui getts an error.

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user1@endor BOINC]$ ./boincmgr
./boincmgr: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_gtk2u_html-2.8.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


Any suggestions?

cheers.

[doktor5000]

Yes, you are missing a library that this boincmgr requires.

[laidlaws]

(Yes, I know that this is an old thread.
The Doktor has a solution. The basic problem is that Boinc is run by user boinc and not by your ordinary user. Adding yourself to the group 'boinc' should solve the problem .

[laidlaws]

I have just installed Boinc, and my above fix works. There was a problem with Boinc Manager, with a link to follow, but that is really a separate issue.

[doktor5000]

Please don't necrobump old thread, last reply was from 8 years ago.

[laidlaws]

I considered that, but the problem izs ongoing, as the number of users affected testifies, and many have just given up. I thought that the best place to put my fix was after those posts.

BTW, the problem is met so often ans so easy to fix. Perhaps we could put my fix as a line in the RPM, or else in a README.urpmi.

[doktor5000]

as the number of users affected testifies

What number of users? Apart from you 2 users have commented here, and both of them used the upstream boinc version at some point in time, and not the one from Mageia repos.

Also there's no bugreport open for Boinc, which is the place where this should be reported - not a forum thread with mixed topics from 8 years ago.
Apart from that you cannot simply add all users to boinc group, this could only be put in a README.urpmi

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