I just downloaded the BOINC client. Got it running on my windows workstation, but when I ran it for the first time on my Fedora FC2 system, after the Benchmark I get this error...

2004-06-23 21:01:12 [---] Fewer active results than CPUs; requesting more work
2004-06-23 21:01:12 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 17280 seconds of work
SIGSEGV: segmentation violation
Exiting...

I can't give you any clues as to what causes it, but I had it happen to me on 3 of my hosts in beta. The only way I found to get past it was to delete the client_state.xml file in your boinc folder as well as the seti executable in the /projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/ folder. This will cause you to lose any work still on your computer if it has downloaded any wu's, but it cleared it up for me on all 3 hosts I got it on.


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Can you run this in gdb and post the results?

From your boinc directory, run 'gdb' and type 'file boinc" to load the boinc executable file. Then type 'run' ... it should run the program and seg fault. At that point, type 'bt' and paste the output from that command.

I received a seg fault in a similar place on one of my boxes and think I smell a bug somewhere... but it doesn't quite make sense, looking at the code...

Rob

I got this error on Solaris 5.8 also. Turned out that the client_state.xml file was not readble. chmod a+r and all was well.

Cheers,
~Al

> Can you run this in gdb and post the results?
>
> From your boinc directory, run 'gdb' and type 'file boinc" to load the boinc
> executable file. Then type 'run' ... it should run the program and seg fault.
> At that point, type 'bt' and paste the output from that command.
>
> I received a seg fault in a similar place on one of my boxes and think I smell
> a bug somewhere... but it doesn't quite make sense, looking at the code...
>
> Rob
>
>

(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/nick/boinc_3.20_i686-pc-linux-gnu
2004-08-25 13:31:29 [---] Starting BOINC client version 3.20 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
2004-08-25 13:31:29 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Project prefs: using your defaults
2004-08-25 13:31:29 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Host ID not assigned yet
2004-08-25 13:31:29 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2004-08-25 13:31:29 [---] Fewer active results than CPUs; requesting more work
2004-08-25 13:31:29 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 17280 seconds of work

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x400ee1db in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0x400ee1db in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x400bdc7e in vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x400d8b2c in vsprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3 0x400c602d in sprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4 0x08076033 in dir_size(char const*, double&) (
dirpath=0x2f2f2f2f , size=@0x2f2f2f2f)
at ../lib/filesys.C:325