FreeBSD 7.0 client from ports after portsnap.
stantdart installation (make make install).
attached to this projekt sucessful
BUT command top showing ~100% idle
(process boinc_client started - ps and top detect him)
what's wrong?
Sorry for my language.

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Can you see setiathome-5.27.i386-portbld-freebsd process runing with
# ps aux |grep 'setiathome'

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No.
Ups...
boinc_client only. How to start him?

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Look at http://people.freebsd.org/~pav/boinc.html
It's step by step explanation howto start BOINC and S@H...
Are you sure that you are attached to project?
Can you see
# boinc_cmd --get_project_status | less
you will see something like this:
======== Projects ========
1) -----------
name: SETI@home
master URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
user_name: Ivailo Bonev
team_name: Overclockers.com
resource share: 100.000000
user_total_credit: 3725627.160655
user_expavg_credit: 6181.020198
host_total_credit: 880.738270
host_expavg_credit: 53.483272
nrpc_failures: 0
master_fetch_failures: 0
master fetch pending: no
scheduler RPC pending: no
attached via Account Manager: no
ended: no
suspended via GUI: no
don't request more work: no
disk usage: 0.000000
last RPC: 1232865747.509822
project files downloaded: 0.000000
.....

first you need to go to /var/db/boinc where are all files for S@H
If you want to start BOINC and crunch S@H from boot, you need
boinc_enable="YES"
line in your /etc/rc.conf

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tot# cat /etc/rc.conf | grep boinc
boinc_enable="YES"
tot# boinc_cmd --get_project_status | less
======== Projects ========
1) -----------
name: SETI@home
master URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
user_name: phanthom
team_name: Team RUSSIA
resource share: 100.000000
user_total_credit: 67211.920870
user_expavg_credit: 294.468300
host_total_credit: 0.000000
host_expavg_credit: 0.000000
nrpc_failures: 5
master_fetch_failures: 0
master fetch pending: no
scheduler RPC pending: no
attached via Account Manager: no
ended: no
suspended via GUI: no
don't request more work: no
disk usage: 0.000000
last RPC: 1232875105.467920
project files downloaded: 0.000000
GUI URL:
:
etc...

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Do you have enough space in /var? You can try with rebooting...

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Yes, i try to use --dir option like --dir /usr/local/boinc/
But no result.
log:

tot# boinc_client --no_gui_rpc --dir /usr/local/boinc/ --attach_project http://setiathome.berkeley.edu blah_blah_key
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] Starting BOINC client version 6.4.5 for i386-pc-freebsd
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] Data directory: /usr/local/boinc
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] Processor: 1 i386 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ [] [sse sse2 sse3 3dnow 3dnowext mmx]
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] Processor features:
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] OS: FreeBSD: 7.0-RELEASE
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] Memory: 499.40 MB physical, 0 bytes virtual
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] Disk: 70.93 GB total, 62.21 GB free
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] Local time is UTC +5 hours
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] Not using a proxy
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] Can't load library libcudart
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] No coprocessors
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 249.70MB
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 449.46MB
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 10.00GB
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
26-Jan-2009 01:48:49 [---] Suspending computation - running CPU benchmarks
26-Jan-2009 01:48:55 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Master file download succeeded
26-Jan-2009 01:49:00 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending scheduler request: Project initialization. Requesting 1 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
26-Jan-2009 01:49:05 [SETI@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
26-Jan-2009 01:49:05 [SETI@home] Message from server: platform 'i386-pc-freebsd' not found
26-Jan-2009 01:49:05 [SETI@home] New computer location: home
26-Jan-2009 01:49:07 [SETI@home] Started download of arecibo_181.png
26-Jan-2009 01:49:07 [SETI@home] Started download of sah_40.png
26-Jan-2009 01:49:10 [SETI@home] Finished download of sah_40.png
26-Jan-2009 01:49:10 [SETI@home] Started download of sah_banner_290.png
26-Jan-2009 01:49:11 [SETI@home] Finished download of arecibo_181.png
26-Jan-2009 01:49:11 [SETI@home] Started download of sah_ss_290.png
26-Jan-2009 01:49:12 [SETI@home] Finished download of sah_banner_290.png
26-Jan-2009 01:49:13 [SETI@home] Finished download of sah_ss_290.png
26-Jan-2009 01:49:20 [---] Benchmark results:
26-Jan-2009 01:49:20 [---] Number of CPUs: 1
26-Jan-2009 01:49:20 [---] 1784 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
26-Jan-2009 01:49:20 [---] 4502 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
^C

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What port are you installed? boinc_client?
You need astro/boinc-setiathome-enhanced

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26-Jan-2009 01:48:55 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Master file download succeeded
26-Jan-2009 01:49:00 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending scheduler request: Project initialization. Requesting 1 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
26-Jan-2009 01:49:05 [SETI@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
26-Jan-2009 01:49:05 [SETI@home] Message from server: platform 'i386-pc-freebsd' not found

That's your problem, but don't ask me how to solve it. Perhaps an (advanced) forum search for "platform not found" could bring up some tips.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours

This message shows that you(phanthom) don't have astro/boinc-setiathome-enhanced installed!
BOINC client try to download app from SETI servers, but you need to build this app on your computer with "boinc-setiathome-enhanced" port.

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Ok, i'll try and reply there.
10x

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FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (MY) #1: Sun Jan 18 03:28:08 YEKT 2009
$ su
Password:
tot# cd /usr/ports/astro/boinc-setiathome-enhanced/
tot# make
...
blah...blah...blah...
...
checking for DRIGL... gnome-config: not found
configure: error: Package requirements (x11 xext xxf86vm xdamage xfixes x11-xcb xcb-glx) were not met:

No package 'x11-xcb' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables DRIGL_CFLAGS
and DRIGL_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
Please report the problem to x11@FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the
"/usr/ports/graphics/libGL/work/Mesa-7.3/config.log" including the output of
the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to provide
an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls
/var/db/pkg`).
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/libGL.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/astro/boinc-setiathome-enhanced.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/astro/boinc-setiathome-enhanced.
tot#
Any ideas?
PS i need console client. No gui, no x11. ./configure - not work - command not found.

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Well, the problem is that new S@H app have (unneeded to me) dependancy of GUI. The maintainer of the port from FreeBSD tried to talk with developers of S@H his patch (that make possible to install S@H without X) to be included in the source, but I don't know where are talks now...

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where i can find distrib Seti - FreeBSD (console)?

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I just tried to upgrade my tower2 from 5.27 to 6.03 and ran into the same problem - XCB support missing.
I tried to run the dependency chain and kept uncovering ugliness under every stone I unearthed.

My plan of action tomorrow (and suggestion to you):

1. Reinstall OS from scratch.
2. Portsnap fetch, extract (this will get latest versions in the ports tree).
3. Install gnome2 and all dependencies(somewhere there's an xcb switch - throw it).
4. Install /usr/ports/net/boinc-client and /usr/ports/astro/boinc-setiathome-enhanced with GUI.
5. See my other freebsd post for additional info.

I know this works because my tower1 is running boinc 6.4.5 and seti 6.0.3 as we post.
Have fun.

It's not needed OS reinstalation. Because of upgrading to Xorg 7.4 you need to rebuild binaries. For portupgrade this will be:
portupgrade -rf libxcb
It's written in /usr/ports/UPDATING . Every time when you want to upgrade ports, first read in UPDATING...

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