Hey there guys. This might be an odd ball question but maybe someone can point me in the right direction.

I'm trying to get SETI@HOME to work on my NetBSD box. I got the boinc3-client working that I compiled through NetBSD's /usr/pkgsrc collection. (Similar to FreeBSD's ports) It runs without a problem. However it cannot connect properly to the SETI servers and I think it's because I need the boinc3-seti package which must install additional files necessary for the boinc3-client to work properly.

Here's the compilation error I get:

../db/db_table.h: In instantiation of 'db_table<spike>':
../db/schema_master.h:526:   instantiated from here
../db/db_table.h:77: error: template-id 'operator<< <spike>' for 'std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >& operator<<(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >&, const db_table<spike>&)' does not match any template declaration
../db/db_table.h:78: error: template-id 'operator>><spike>' for 'std::basic_istream<char, std::char_traits<char> >& operator>>(std::basic_istream<char, std::char_traits<char> >&, db_table<spike>&)' does not match any template declaration
gmake[1]: *** [main.o] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/pkgsrc/net/boinc3-seti/work/seti_boinc/client'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error code 2

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/net/boinc3-seti
*** Error code 1

Unfortunately NetBSD doesn't provide a binary package for boinc3-seti either, just the client and the libs.

It's not a huge deal to get this working, but if anyone might know what the compilation errors I'm getting mean, I'd appreciate any insight.

Thanks so much for your help!

The BOINC and SETI version included in the NetBSD port sources is very obsolated. BOINC 5 is actual and BOINC 6 is comming soon...

Please have a look for actual BOINC clients, SETI and Astropulse applications for NetBSD on several platforms on my homepage : www.dotsch.de

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The BOINC and SETI version included in the NetBSD port sources is very obsolated. BOINC 5 is actual and BOINC 6 is comming soon...

Please have a look for actual BOINC clients, SETI and Astropulse applications for NetBSD on several platforms on my homepage : www.dotsch.de

wow! thanks so much for this! worked like a dream and your documentation was spot on!

i appreciate your work in creating something like this for NetBSD people to use. in case they ever create a new version of NetBSD, I'd hope they incorporate this in their pkgsrc. great work my friend!!

Thank you very much for your nice feedback ! - I am very happy that is was easy to install.

Have you installed the SETI and the Astropulse application ?
I have verfied your hosts, and seen that the NetBSD systems has not fetched any work. Have you installed the SETI and Astropulse applications ? - If yes, a restart of the BOINC client with "./boinc_client --update_prefs http://setiathome.berkeley.edu" would help.

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ahh yes indeed you are correct. I installed the proper SETI application but it appears I'm still not downloading anything from seti. At first it was able to download the master file and the png files, but it won't fetch any work nor does it attempt to.

here's what happens:

bash-3.2$ ./boinc_client --update_prefs http://setiathome.berkeley.edu
31-Jul-2008 18:54:38 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.10.45 for i386-pc-netbsd
31-Jul-2008 18:54:38 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
31-Jul-2008 18:54:38 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.17.0 OpenSSL/0.9.7d zlib/1.1.4
31-Jul-2008 18:54:38 [---] Data directory: /opt/boinc
31-Jul-2008 18:54:38 [---] Processor: 1 i386 AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (686-class)
31-Jul-2008 18:54:38 [---] Processor features: 
31-Jul-2008 18:54:38 [---] OS: NetBSD: 4.0
31-Jul-2008 18:54:38 [---] Memory: 511.56 MB physical, 1.95 GB virtual
31-Jul-2008 18:54:38 [---] Disk: 622.98 MB total, 559.36 MB free
31-Jul-2008 18:54:38 [---] Local time is UTC -4 hours
31-Jul-2008 18:54:38 [SETI@home] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 4507360; location: (none); project prefs: default
31-Jul-2008 18:54:38 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
31-Jul-2008 18:54:38 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 255.78MB
31-Jul-2008 18:54:38 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 460.40MB
31-Jul-2008 18:54:38 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 0.30GB

at this point, it just sits there. i must be missing something hehe

again, thanks for all your time and assistance with helping me.

The messages say, inidicates that the app_info.xml was not found.
Could you please verify, if in the $BOINC_DIRECTORY/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu the files app_info.xml and setiathome-5* are installed. If not install the files from the package there. -> $BOINC_DIRECTORY is the direcory, where the BOINC client is installed.
If the files are exists, stop the BOINC client and start it again with "./boinc_client --update_prefs http://setiathome.berkeley.edu".

Btw. a detailed installation info is also included in the SETI and Astropulse packages in opt/boinc/doc/install.seti and install.astropulse.

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i started from scratch and appear to have gotten everything correct :-D i think it appears to be working now???

bash-3.2$ ./boinc_client
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.10.45 for i386-pc-netbsd
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.17.0 OpenSSL/0.9.7d zlib/1.1.4
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [---] Data directory: /opt/boinc
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [SETI@home] Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [---] Processor: 1 i386 AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (686-class)
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [---] Processor features:
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [---] OS: NetBSD: 4.0
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [---] Memory: 511.56 MB physical, 1.95 GB virtual
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [---] Disk: 622.98 MB total, 553.97 MB free
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [---] Local time is UTC -4 hours
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [SETI@home] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 4509359; location: (none); project prefs: default
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 255.78MB
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 460.40MB
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 0.30GB
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [SETI@home] Started download of 05jn08ac.29266.926274.8.8.148
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [SETI@home] Started download of arecibo_181.png
01-Aug-2008 22:38:14 [SETI@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.  Requesting 4793 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
01-Aug-2008 22:38:17 [SETI@home] Finished download of arecibo_181.png
01-Aug-2008 22:38:17 [SETI@home] Started download of sah_40.png
01-Aug-2008 22:38:18 [SETI@home] Finished download of sah_40.png
01-Aug-2008 22:38:18 [SETI@home] Started download of sah_banner_290.png
01-Aug-2008 22:38:19 [SETI@home] Finished download of sah_banner_290.png
01-Aug-2008 22:38:19 [SETI@home] Started download of sah_ss_290.png
01-Aug-2008 22:38:19 [SETI@home] Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
01-Aug-2008 22:38:20 [SETI@home] Finished download of 05jn08ac.29266.926274.8.8.148
01-Aug-2008 22:38:20 [SETI@home] Finished download of sah_ss_290.png
01-Aug-2008 22:38:21 [SETI@home] Started download of 05jn08aa.29941.6207.5.8.44
01-Aug-2008 22:38:21 [SETI@home] Starting 05jn08ac.29266.926274.8.8.148_0
01-Aug-2008 22:38:21 [SETI@home] Starting task 05jn08ac.29266.926274.8.8.148_0 using setiathome_enhanced version 527
01-Aug-2008 22:38:27 [SETI@home] Finished download of 05jn08aa.29941.6207.5.8.44

Looks fine !
Your system has downloaded and already finished one SETI WU successfull !

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EXCELLENT! Go Athlon 2100+ Go!!! She looks so lonely next to the Pentium 4, The Core 2 Duo, and the Xeon :~(

but she's crunchin' just fine ;-D

thanks SO much for your help Dotcsh. After starting from scratch and following all the directions carefully, i got it working no problem. this is great work! all hail netbsd!!!

:-)
Great that it work !

Btw. if you are interested in other projects, SIMAP has a native NetBSD i386 applications, too. It's also posible to crunch Rosetta and MalariaControl on NetBSD with the Linux Compat. A howto for the BSD Linux Compat and BOINC is available on my homepage, too.

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