Boinc- Unable to run and attach to project.

chris_debian · 2009-10-13 20:54:03

Hi, all.

Just got my Arch installation finished, and I want to run Boinc. I've installed it, but all my options seem to be 'greyed-out'. Can anyone help me get Boinc started, so I can start donating my spare processor time?

I've just dumped an inferior GNU/Linux distro, and I ran Boinc without any problems on that; I'm obviously missing something really obvious.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers,

Chris.

owain · 2009-10-13 20:59:29

Have you started the daemon?

sudo /etc/rc.d/boinc start

You can also add it to /etc/rc.conf

chris_debian · 2009-10-13 21:05:45

Nope, but I will, now. I've managed to attach to a project, but I seem to get an error straight away:

 "Can't load library libcudart"

Hmmm...

cdysthe · 2009-12-11 13:09:06

chris_debian wrote:

Nope, but I will, now. I've managed to attach to a project, but I seem to get an error straight away:
 "Can't load library libcudart"
Hmmm...

I start the daemon, and run the Boinc manager. All I get is "Error" in the boinc manager window. I do not know what to try next. Also, Boinc adds a user "boinc" which shows up in KDM. Wonder how I can get rid of that?

Ashren · 2009-12-11 13:46:04

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/BOINC

cdysthe · 2009-12-11 14:28:05

Thanks. I have read all that and done all it suggest, but no go.

Nab!!daN · 2010-09-18 09:58:48

Same issue following the tutorial, it adds a boinc user (?????), no way to attached a project or connect to the boinc server running on my pc (hostname or loopback).

Worse, no error when launching "boincmgr" from a terminal, which makes it difficult to troubleshot.

Indeed, Boinc Deamon is started.

Any idea ?

2.6.35-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 27 17:14:28 CEST 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Boinc from pacman repositories.

Need help please

Last edited by Nab!!daN (2010-09-18 09:59:59)

trn · 2010-09-19 01:45:42

Nab!!daN wrote:

Same issue following the tutorial, it adds a boinc user (?????), no way to attached a project or connect to the boinc server running on my pc (hostname or loopback).
Worse, no error when launching "boincmgr" from a terminal, which makes it difficult to troubleshot.
Indeed, Boinc Deamon is started.
Any idea ?
2.6.35-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 27 17:14:28 CEST 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Boinc from pacman repositories.
Need help please

Same problem, I have to kill boinc daemon then restart it under my username and it works. I've had no luck fixing the problem yet.

Nab!!daN · 2010-09-30 11:32:03

Hi Trn,

Could you please detailed what do you mean by "I have to kill Boinc daemon then restart it under my username and it works".

I know how to kill a process but what about restarted it under your username ?

This is truly a weird behavior

Cheers

Cheers,

trn · 2010-09-30 22:12:41

Nab, My meaning is. On startup the daemon shows as running (with ps aux.) The Daemon runs with the username boinc which should be fine and normal. But I can not connect to or make the daemon work at all. If I su and kill the daemon using the kill command then login to tty2 or any console or xterm with either my username or root I can then run boinc with the command 'boinc' At that time boinc starts up as normal and works just fine.

Nab!!daN · 2010-10-01 10:31:28

Hi Trn,

Okey

Will give a try tonight.

Thanks for your help !

Nab!!daN · 2010-10-01 18:51:30

I'm not lucky

1619 boinc 39 19 42088 2588 1364 S 0 0.1 14:20.02 boinc_client

[nab@Pandora ~]$ sudo kill 1619
[nab@Pandora ~]$ boinc
01-Oct-2010 20:46:17 [---] Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
01-Oct-2010 20:46:17 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
01-Oct-2010 20:46:17 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.21.1 OpenSSL/1.0.0a zlib/1.2.5
01-Oct-2010 20:46:17 [---] Data directory: /home/nab
01-Oct-2010 20:46:17 [---] Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz [Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 7]
01-Oct-2010 20:46:17 [---] Processor: 1.00 MB cache
01-Oct-2010 20:46:17 [---] 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 lm constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
01-Oct-2010 20:46:17 [---] OS: Linux: 2.6.35-ARCH
01-Oct-2010 20:46:17 [---] Memory: 2.94 GB physical, 258.86 MB virtual
01-Oct-2010 20:46:17 [---] Disk: 438.88 GB total, 336.37 GB free
01-Oct-2010 20:46:17 [---] Local time is UTC +2 hours
01-Oct-2010 20:46:17 [---] NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 9600 GT (driver version unknown, CUDA version 3010, compute capability 1.1, 511MB, 208 GFLOPS peak)
01-Oct-2010 20:46:17 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
01-Oct-2010 20:46:17 [---] Preferences:
01-Oct-2010 20:46:17 [---] max memory usage when active: 1507.09MB
01-Oct-2010 20:46:17 [---] max memory usage when idle: 2712.75MB
SIGSEGV: segmentation violation
Segmentation fault

any idea, quiet a generic error message, but not enough to troubleshot

Cheers.

Last edited by Nab!!daN (2010-10-01 18:59:49)

Nab!!daN · 2010-10-01 18:53:19

Please help we need to find E.T (seti@home)

Nab!!daN · 2010-10-07 09:50:04

OK now it works.

In fact I was confused by the fact that a user is created on Archlinux for security reasons.

If you don't like the idea of having this file in your home directory, there is an alternative approach. Boinc Manager will also look for a readable gui_rpc_auth.cfg file in the current working directory. If you make the file readable by the boinc group and ensure that the manager is run with /var/lib/boinc as the working directory, you should find that the client connects to the daemon automatically, as desired. This can usually be achieved via the menu editor in your desktop environment of choice.

So there is no way to get rid of the Boinc user, but to be able to run it with a different user, you can copy the default password from "gui_rpc_auth.cfg" or simply let the Boinc group allowed to run the application (indeed your user must be a part of the Boinc group).

So my issue was PEBKAC

Does one of you know why it must be run by a different user (boinc) rather than a regular one ?

(when I say regular, I mean that the boinc user is not active on my system, but all Boinc processes are handled by Boinc : Boinc, not sure to be clear enough ...).

Thanks for your help TRN, now for my part let's find E.T

Last edited by Nab!!daN (2010-10-09 01:22:05)

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Boinc- Unable to run and attach to project.

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