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Tangerineboy Send message Joined: 2 Jan 09 Posts: 33 Credit: 1,511,482 RAC: 0 |
I have been crunching away just fine on my freebsd 7.1 AMD64 box. I then had a couple of small but rather annoying power outages the other week. Now Boinc just refuses to run. It does not auto run after a reboot, so starting boinc manually. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/boinc* start Starting BOINC client. sun2# Another instance of BOINC is running Now I have checked top and there is not another instance running If I try a boinc_client --allow_remote_gui_rpc 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] Starting BOINC client version 6.4.5 for x86_64-pc-freebsd 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] Data directory: /tank/home/graeme 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] [error] Invalid account filename: account_setiathome. 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [SETI@home] Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] Processor: 2 amd64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Pro 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] Processor features: 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] OS: FreeBSD: 7.1-RELEASE 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] Memory: 3.92 GB physical, 0 bytes virtual 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] Disk: 391.80 GB total, 388.45 GB free 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] Local time is UTC +1 hours 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] Not using a proxy 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] Can't load library libcudart 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] No coprocessors 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [SETI@home] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 10-Mar-2 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] Host location: none 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] General prefs: using your defaults 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2812.03 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 2812.03MB SIGBUS: bus error I tried a re-install using setenv FORCE_PKG_REGISTER and it has made no difference. Any help would be appreciated. |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
You had this problem before, in this thread. Sounds more and more as if you have a problem with your disk. Seeing how you got a similar startup error both times: 23-May-2009 17:59:46 [---] [error] Invalid account filename: account_setiathome. and the last time: 15-Mar-2009 11:46:07 [---] [error] Invalid account filename: account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml.old It's just as if your BOINC installation forgets about you. Have you done a thorough disk check? |
Tangerineboy Send message Joined: 2 Jan 09 Posts: 33 Credit: 1,511,482 RAC: 0 |
was slight more concerned about the sigbus error which I dont think is related to the account details |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
I guess that the power outage has corrupted the account_setiathome.xml file... Is the file account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml in your BOINC directroy and has some contents in xml ? I never have tested to recreate the file, I guess it should work, you to change $ACCOUNT_KEY with your SETI@home account key. A minimum file looks like this : <account> <master_url>http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/</master_url> <authenticator>$ACCOUNT_KEY</authenticator> <project_name>SETI@home</project_name> <project_preferences> </project_preferences> </account> |
Tangerineboy Send message Joined: 2 Jan 09 Posts: 33 Credit: 1,511,482 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for the pointers .. as it seems to be with that particular machine, boinc wont work ... then boinc will suddenly start working. I will keep an eye on it and see if I can nail down what is causing it, I will take a back up of the account file for safe keeping. Regards |
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