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Tony Lanier Send message Joined: 4 Nov 99 Posts: 3 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
Hi, I used to run SET@Home on a Solaris 8 machine years ago (before BOINC), and everything ran fine. I recently downloaded boinc_5.4.9_ultrasparcVIS64-sun-solaris2.8, started it up, but it doesn't seem to be attaching to project: 2006-12-11 09:37:37 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.9 for sparc64-sun-solaris 2006-12-11 09:37:37 [---] libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8c zlib/1.1.3 2006-12-11 09:37:37 [---] Data directory: /programs/firestone5-6/elec/asics/usr/rlanier/bin 2006-12-11 09:37:37 [---] Processor: 1 SUNW,Sun-Blade-2500 sparcv9+vis2 2006-12-11 09:37:37 [---] Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 48.34 GB virtual 2006-12-11 09:37:37 [---] Disk: 200.00 GB total, 20.67 GB free 2006-12-11 09:37:37 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults 2006-12-11 09:37:37 [---] Local control only allowed 2006-12-11 09:37:37 [---] Listening on port 31416 2006-12-11 09:37:37 [---] This computer is not attached to any projects 2006-12-11 09:37:37 [---] Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions Can anyone tell me what I need to do to attach to a project? I've visited boinc.berkeley.edu, but can't seem to find what I need. Thanks! |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
Please start the boinc client with the option -attach_project option. For example : "./boinc_client -attach_project http://setiathome.berkeley.edu ACCOUNT_KEY". Change ACCOUNT_KEY in the command above in the account key, you get mailed from the project after registration. The link to the account creation : http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/create_account_form.php |
Tony Lanier Send message Joined: 4 Nov 99 Posts: 3 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
I was able to get the boinc_clinet up and running with my account key; however, after it starts, nothing happens: 2006-12-12 11:42:35 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.9 for sparc64-sun-solaris 2006-12-12 11:42:35 [---] libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8c zlib/1.1.3 2006-12-12 11:42:35 [---] Data directory: xxxxxxx 2006-12-12 11:42:35 [---] Processor: 1 SUNW,Sun-Blade-2500 sparcv9+vis2 2006-12-12 11:42:35 [---] Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 48.34 GB virtual 2006-12-12 11:42:35 [---] Disk: 200.00 GB total, 18.49 GB free 2006-12-12 11:42:35 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: ; project prefs: default 2006-12-12 11:42:35 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults 2006-12-12 11:42:35 [---] Local control only allowed 2006-12-12 11:42:35 [---] Listening on port 31416 2006-12-12 11:42:38 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler list download succeeded 2006-12-12 11:42:38 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi 2006-12-12 11:42:38 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Reason: Requested by user 2006-12-12 11:42:38 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 8640 seconds of new work 2006-12-12 11:42:41 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request succeeded 2006-12-12 11:42:41 [SETI@home] Message from server: platform 'sparc64-sun-solaris' not found 2006-12-12 11:42:41 [SETI@home] New host venue: work 2006-12-12 11:42:41 [SETI@home] Successfully attached to SETI@home boinc_client attached to SETI@home, but then nothing happens. Is a GUI suppose to start, or do I need to download additional files/scripts? I noticed that the CPU meter never showed activity on the processor. Also, a quick glance at the processes running shows no activity. |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
Sorry, my fault. I forget to say, that some BOINC clients delete the contents in the projects directory, when the option -attach_projet will be used. To solve this, please stop the boinc client, untar the seti boinc package again and copy all files from the (untared) boinc seti package (projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/) directory to your installed BOINC projects directrory ($BOINC_DIR/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu). After the copy, restart the BOINC client again : ./boinc_client -update_prefs http://setiathome.berkeley.edu |
Tony Lanier Send message Joined: 4 Nov 99 Posts: 3 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
Hmmm.......still nothing seems to be happening. Allow me explain the steps I took to get to this point...... I downloaded boinc5.49seti5.13sparc64sol8.tar.bz2, unzipped and untarred it. Then I ran the following command: boinc_5.4.9_ultrasparcVIS64-sun-solaris2.8 -attach_project http://setiathome.berkeley.edu <ACCOUNT_KEY> And here are the results: 2006-12-13 07:24:04 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.9 for sparc64-sun-solaris 2006-12-13 07:24:04 [---] libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8c zlib/1.1.3 2006-12-13 07:24:04 [---] Data directory: XXXXXXX 2006-12-13 07:24:04 [---] Processor: 1 SUNW,Sun-Blade-2500 sparcv9+vis2 2006-12-13 07:24:04 [---] Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 48.34 GB virtual 2006-12-13 07:24:04 [---] Disk: 200.00 GB total, 18.67 GB free 2006-12-13 07:24:04 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: ; project prefs: default 2006-12-13 07:24:04 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults 2006-12-13 07:24:04 [---] Local control only allowed 2006-12-13 07:24:04 [---] Listening on port 31416 2006-12-13 07:24:04 [---] Platform changed from to sparc64-sun-solaris - resetting projects 2006-12-13 07:24:04 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Resetting project 2006-12-13 07:24:04 [---] Rescheduling CPU: exit_tasks 2006-12-13 07:24:04 [---] Suspending network activity - running CPU benchmarks 2006-12-13 07:24:06 [---] Running CPU benchmarks 2006-12-13 07:25:06 [---] Benchmark results: 2006-12-13 07:25:06 [---] Number of CPUs: 1 2006-12-13 07:25:06 [---] 583 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 2006-12-13 07:25:06 [---] 1162 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 2006-12-13 07:25:06 [---] Finished CPU benchmarks 2006-12-13 07:25:07 [---] Resuming computation 2006-12-13 07:25:07 [---] Rescheduling CPU: Resuming computation 2006-12-13 07:25:07 [---] Resuming network activity 2006-12-13 07:25:10 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler list download succeeded 2006-12-13 07:25:10 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi 2006-12-13 07:25:10 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Reason: Requested by user 2006-12-13 07:25:10 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 8640 seconds of new work 2006-12-13 07:25:13 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request succeeded 2006-12-13 07:25:13 [SETI@home] Message from server: platform 'sparc64-sun-solaris' not found 2006-12-13 07:25:13 [SETI@home] New host venue: work 2006-12-13 07:25:13 [SETI@home] Successfully attached to SETI@home ^C2006-12-13 08:16:08 [---] Received signal 2 2006-12-13 08:16:09 [---] Exit requested by user 2006-12-13 08:16:09 [---] Rescheduling CPU: exit_tasks Then I copied all the files in the /projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu directory to the same level as the boinc_5.4.9_ultrasparcVIS64-sun-solaris2.8 file. I then reran the boinc_client like so: boinc_5.4.9_ultrasparcVIS64-sun-solaris2.8 -update_prefs http://setiathome.berkeley.edu This is what I got: 2006-12-13 08:29:34 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.9 for sparc64-sun-solaris 2006-12-13 08:29:34 [---] libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8c zlib/1.1.3 2006-12-13 08:29:34 [---] Data directory: XXXXXXX 2006-12-13 08:29:34 [SETI@home] Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform 2006-12-13 08:29:34 [---] Processor: 1 SUNW,Sun-Blade-2500 sparcv9+vis2 2006-12-13 08:29:34 [---] Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 48.34 GB virtual 2006-12-13 08:29:34 [---] Disk: 200.00 GB total, 18.51 GB free 2006-12-13 08:29:34 [SETI@home] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 2947260; location: work; project prefs: default 2006-12-13 08:29:34 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults 2006-12-13 08:29:34 [---] Local control only allowed 2006-12-13 08:29:34 [---] Listening on port 31416 Still nothing. It seems as if I do not have the workspace setup properly, but I can find nothing in the docs that will help (where do I look?). What else am I missing? Thanks! |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
Your setup looks good. Can you please post the output from "grep rpc client_state.xml" here. |
SergioAriel Send message Joined: 15 Jul 01 Posts: 2 Credit: 43,655 RAC: 0 |
Your setup looks good. I have a similar problem . . . I can't get to connect. How can I find my activation key? |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
You have get it in the registration mail from SETI, also you can requesting it by this mail form : http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_passwd.php. If you have already a installed and running SETI, you can "grep $BOINCDIR/authenticatior account_setiathome.berkeley.edu". |
Catweasel Send message Joined: 12 Jun 00 Posts: 16 Credit: 435,236 RAC: 0 |
Hi Tony I had an similar Problem here. To solve the Problem, i had two things to do: First i had to say Unix which Proxy to use: In the /.profile i added the Proxy: http_proxy=http://192.168.1.10:3128/ https_proxy=http://192.168.1.10:3128 ftp_proxy=http://192.168.1.10:3128/ gopher_proxy=http://192.168.1.10:3128/ export http_proxy https_proxy ftp_proxy gopher_proxy The second was the Time. I don´t know why, but before i could start Boinc the first time, i had to change the Date +24 Hours. date <Date tomorrow> start boinc (Now Boinc will download the Data) after the download, stop Boinc, set the Date correctly and start Boinc again. (If you use NTP, stop it first) Greetings Michael |
sophana Send message Joined: 4 Jan 07 Posts: 3 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
I also have the same message: 2007-01-04 13:24:07 [SETI@home] Message from server: platform 'sparc64-sun-solaris' not found 2007-01-04 13:24:07 [SETI@home] New host venue: home 2007-01-04 13:24:07 [SETI@home] Successfully attached to SETI@home seems that I can't find any boinc program compatible with the sparc64-sun-solaris platform... |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
I also have the same message: If you use the binaries from Stefan Urbat, please follow the instructions I have written above : http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=36166&nowrap=true#480960 |
sophana Send message Joined: 4 Jan 07 Posts: 3 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
I copied the files I used boinc_manager to request an update: 2007-01-04 16:13:57 [SETI@home] Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi 2007-01-04 16:13:57 [SETI@home] Reason: Requested by user 2007-01-04 16:13:57 [SETI@home] Requesting 17280 seconds of new work l2007-01-04 16:14:02 [SETI@home] Scheduler request succeeded 2007-01-04 16:14:02 [SETI@home] Message from server: platform 'sparc64-sun-solaris' not found |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
Have you stopped the BOINC client before you copied the files ? Can you please post the ouput from $BOINC_DIR/projects/setiatome.berkeley.edu/ |
sophana Send message Joined: 4 Jan 07 Posts: 3 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
oops sorry I copied the content of the setiathome directory instead of copying the projects directory. It now works fine. Thanks for your help. |
derchris Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 14 Credit: 173,706 RAC: 0 |
Hello, I have the same problem atm. I also use the binaries from Stefan Urbat. You said that you should stop the client, untar the package again, and copy the content of the projects folder to the boinc home dir. But I only have the binary, nothing more. If I run it with -attach_project , it will create the projects directory for me, but it is empty. |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
The package should contain the BOINC client (boinc_client) and the SETI application (setiathome-5.1*). It looks like you have downloaded the wrong package. The "new Solaris 8 UltraSPARC I/II client/SETI" (boinc5.49seti5.13sparc64sol8.tar.bz2) should be the right one.
Yes, this is excatly the problem as I have described. You need to attach, stop the BOINC client, copy the files to the project folder, and start the boinc client again with the -uppdate_projects option. |
derchris Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 14 Credit: 173,706 RAC: 0 |
No success. First of all, I made a new directory and copied the tar.bz2 in it. Then I extracted the files and made a copy of the projects folder to project_archive. Then I first started the client with the -attach_project option, waited for some time, and then stopped the client. I looked for the projects folder, and everything was ok there, no files deleted. So I restarted the client now with the -update_prefs option. But it doesnt´t seem to work. Here is some output from my machine. bash-3.00$ ./boinc_5.4.9_ultrasparcVIS64-sun-solaris2.8 -update_prefs http://setiathome.berkeley.edu 2007-01-10 14:49:24 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.9 for sparc64-sun-solaris 2007-01-10 14:49:24 [---] libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8c zlib/1.1.4 2007-01-10 14:49:24 [---] Data directory: /export/home/derchris/boinc 2007-01-10 14:49:24 [SETI@home] Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform 2007-01-10 14:49:24 [---] Processor: 4 SUNW,Ultra-80 sparcv9+vis 2007-01-10 14:49:24 [---] Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 1.00 GB virtual 2007-01-10 14:49:24 [---] Disk: 15.62 GB total, 9.57 GB free 2007-01-10 14:49:24 [SETI@home] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 3008992; location: home; project prefs: home 2007-01-10 14:49:24 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults 2007-01-10 14:49:24 [---] Local control only allowed 2007-01-10 14:49:24 [---] Listening on port 31416 bash-3.00$ ls -la projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/ total 3976 drwxr-xr-x 2 derchris root 512 Jan 10 14:49 . drwxr-xr-x 3 derchris root 512 Jan 10 13:02 .. -rw-r----- 1 derchris root 457 Jan 10 14:45 app_info.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 derchris root 668 Jan 10 14:45 AUTHORS -rw-r--r-- 1 derchris root 1876 Jan 10 14:45 CHANGES -rw-r--r-- 1 derchris root 17992 Jan 10 14:45 COPYING -rw-r--r-- 1 derchris root 1914 Jan 10 14:45 COPYRIGHT -rw-r--r-- 1 derchris root 2025 Jan 10 14:45 README -rwxr-xr-x 1 derchris root 1997960 Jan 10 14:45 setiathome_5.13_sparc64-sun-solaris2.8 bash-3.00$ grep rpc client_state.xml <rpc_seqno>0</rpc_seqno> <nrpc_failures>0</nrpc_failures> <min_rpc_time>1168525784.020173</min_rpc_time> <sched_rpc_pending/> I don´t know where to look else. I run the client as a normal user, and not as root. But shouldn´t be a problem. |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
I have looked at your computers on the website, and the sun systems are not correctly listed. Looked like someting at the attachment did not worked. Could you please delete all xml files in $BOINC_DIR and do a boinc_client --attach_project and retry the procedure I have written again. |
derchris Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 14 Credit: 173,706 RAC: 0 |
I have looked at your computers on the website, and the sun systems are not correctly listed. Looked like someting at the attachment did not worked. So, I deleted all XML Files and started again. I also deleted the setiathome folder in projects after I stopped the boinc client, and copied the content from the tar archive. 2007-01-10 22:51:01 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.9 for sparc64-sun-solaris 2007-01-10 22:51:01 [---] libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8c zlib/1.1.4 2007-01-10 22:51:01 [---] Data directory: /export/home/derchris/boinc 2007-01-10 22:51:01 [---] Processor: 4 SUNW,Ultra-80 sparcv9+vis 2007-01-10 22:51:01 [---] Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 1.00 GB virtual 2007-01-10 22:51:01 [---] Disk: 15.62 GB total, 9.52 GB free 2007-01-10 22:51:01 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: ; project prefs: default 2007-01-10 22:51:01 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults 2007-01-10 22:51:01 [---] Local control only allowed 2007-01-10 22:51:01 [---] Listening on port 31416 2007-01-10 22:51:01 [---] Platform changed from to sparc64-sun-solaris - resetting projects 2007-01-10 22:51:01 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Resetting project 2007-01-10 22:51:01 [---] Rescheduling CPU: exit_tasks 2007-01-10 22:51:01 [---] Suspending network activity - running CPU benchmarks 2007-01-10 22:51:03 [---] Running CPU benchmarks 2007-01-10 22:52:02 [---] Benchmark results: 2007-01-10 22:52:02 [---] Number of CPUs: 4 2007-01-10 22:52:02 [---] 267 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 2007-01-10 22:52:02 [---] 448 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 2007-01-10 22:52:02 [---] Finished CPU benchmarks 2007-01-10 22:52:03 [---] Resuming computation 2007-01-10 22:52:03 [---] Rescheduling CPU: Resuming computation 2007-01-10 22:52:03 [---] Resuming network activity 2007-01-10 22:52:06 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler list download succeeded 2007-01-10 22:52:06 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi 2007-01-10 22:52:06 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Reason: Requested by user 2007-01-10 22:52:06 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 34560 seconds of new work 2007-01-10 22:52:09 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler request succeeded 2007-01-10 22:52:09 [SETI@home] Message from server: platform 'sparc64-sun-solaris' not found 2007-01-10 22:52:09 [SETI@home] New host venue: home 2007-01-10 22:52:09 [SETI@home] Successfully attached to SETI@home ^C2007-01-10 22:52:32 [---] Received signal 2 2007-01-10 22:52:33 [---] Exit requested by user 2007-01-10 22:52:33 [---] Rescheduling CPU: exit_tasks bash-3.00$ rm -r projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu bash-3.00$ ls projects/ bash-3.00$ cp -r project_archive/setiathome.berkeley.edu projects bash-3.00$ ls projects/ setiathome.berkeley.edu bash-3.00$ ./boinc_5.4.9_ultrasparcVIS64-sun-solaris2.8 -update_prefs http://setiathome.berkeley.edu 2007-01-10 22:54:05 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.9 for sparc64-sun-solaris 2007-01-10 22:54:05 [---] libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8c zlib/1.1.4 2007-01-10 22:54:05 [---] Data directory: /export/home/derchris/boinc 2007-01-10 22:54:05 [SETI@home] Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform 2007-01-10 22:54:05 [---] Processor: 4 SUNW,Ultra-80 sparcv9+vis 2007-01-10 22:54:05 [---] Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 1.00 GB virtual 2007-01-10 22:54:05 [---] Disk: 15.62 GB total, 9.52 GB free 2007-01-10 22:54:05 [SETI@home] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 3009930; location: home; project prefs: home 2007-01-10 22:54:05 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults 2007-01-10 22:54:05 [---] Local control only allowed 2007-01-10 22:54:05 [---] Listening on port 31416 Nothing is really happening. I´m lost |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
Could you please try to stop the BOINC client and start it with "boinc_client -update_prefs http://setiathome.berkeley.edu". |
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