Hello,

I have sucessfully compiled boinc 4.11 and seti 4.03 on my Solaris 9 x86 box!

But I can not get it to run properly.

I understood I have to provide an app_version.xml file which looks like the following:

<app_info>
<app>
<name>setiathome</name>
</app>
<file-info>
<name>setiathome_4.3_i386-pc-solaris2.9</name>
</file-info>
<app_version>
<app_name>setiathome</app_name>
<version_num>403</version_num>
<file_ref>
<file_name>/usr/local/boinc/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_4.3_i386-pc-solaris2.9</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>
</app_version>
</app_info>


Using this I get the following output when starting boinc:

# ./boinc_4.11_i386-pc-solaris2.9
2004-11-02 18:38:09 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.11 for i386-pc-solaris2.9
2004-11-02 18:38:09 [SETI@home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2004-11-02 18:38:09 [SETI@home] Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
2004-11-02 18:38:09 [SETI@home] app_version refers to nonexistent file: /usr/local/boinc/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_4.3_i386-pc-solaris2.9
2004-11-02 18:38:09 [SETI@home] app_version refers to nonexistent file: /usr/local/boinc/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiathome_4.3_i386-pc-solaris2.9
2004-11-02 18:38:09 [SETI@home] Host ID is 325022
2004-11-02 18:38:09 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2004-11-02 18:38:09 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
2004-11-02 18:38:09 [---] Suspending computation and network activity - running CPU benchmarks
2004-11-02 18:39:11 [---] Benchmark results:
2004-11-02 18:39:11 [---] Number of CPUs: 1
2004-11-02 18:39:11 [---] 457 double precision MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2004-11-02 18:39:11 [---] 858 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
2004-11-02 18:39:11 [---] Finished CPU benchmarks
2004-11-02 18:39:12 [---] Resuming computation and network activity
2004-11-02 18:39:12 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-11-02 18:39:15 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-11-02 18:39:15 [SETI@home] Requesting 14697 seconds of work
2004-11-02 18:39:15 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-11-02 18:39:17 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-11-02 18:39:17 [SETI@home] General preferences have been updated
2004-11-02 18:39:17 [SETI@home] Message from server: No work available
2004-11-02 18:39:17 [SETI@home] Message from server: No work available
2004-11-02 18:39:17 [---] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 2004-06-30 18:38:33)
2004-11-02 18:39:17 [---] General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2004-11-02 18:39:17 [SETI@home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2004-11-02 18:39:17 [SETI@home] No work from project
2004-11-02 18:39:17 [SETI@home] No work from project
2004-11-02 18:39:17 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 1 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds
2004-11-02 18:39:17 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 1 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds
2004-11-02 18:39:46 [---] Received signal 2
2004-11-02 18:39:47 [---] Exit requested by user

Where am I wrong? Why does the application does not find the seti file? I know it is there. ;-)

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

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Just stating the obvious really, but are all the file and directory permissions set appropriately?

Ned

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Here's my app_info.xml:
It's working OK so far.

<app_info>
<app>
<name>setiathome</name>
</app>
<file_info>
<name>setiathome_4.3_i686-pc-linux-gnu</name>
</file_info>
<app_version>

<app_name>setiathome</app_name>
<version_num>403</version_num>
<file_ref>
<file_name>setiathome_4.3_i686-pc-linux-gnu</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>
</app_version>

</app_info>

Main difference is the file_name entry I guess.

Regards Hans

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> Just stating the obvious really, but are all the file and directory
> permissions set appropriately?
>
> Ned
>

I have done chmod 777 to be sure, but it still does not work!

This is the my file structure in /usr/local/boinc

# ls -laR boinc
boinc:
total 32070
drwxrwxrwx 3 root other 512 Nov 3 07:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root other 512 Oct 28 23:33 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root other 970 Nov 2 20:06 account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root other 16398032 Nov 2 20:04 boinc_4.11_i386-pc-solaris2.9
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 2732 Nov 3 07:07 client_state_prev.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 2732 Nov 3 07:07 client_state.xml
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root other 688 Nov 2 18:39 global_prefs.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 0 Nov 3 07:07 lockfile
drwxrwxrwx 3 root other 512 Nov 2 23:54 projects

boinc/projects:
total 6
drwxrwxrwx 3 root other 512 Nov 2 23:54 .
drwxrwxrwx 3 root other 512 Nov 3 07:07 ..
drwxrwxrwx 2 root other 512 Nov 2 23:36 setiathome.berkeley.edu

boinc/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu:
total 1878
drwxrwxrwx 2 root other 512 Nov 2 23:36 .
drwxrwxrwx 3 root other 512 Nov 2 23:54 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root other 383 Nov 2 21:17 app_info.xml
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root other 948880 Nov 2 19:41 setiathome_4.3_i386-pc-solaris2.9

I start boinc_4.11_i386-pc-solaris2.9 from within /usr/local/boinc.

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> Here's my app_info.xml:
> It's working OK so far.
>
>
>
> setiathome
>
>
> setiathome_4.3_i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
>
>
> setiathome
> 403
>
>
> setiathome_4.3_i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Main difference is the file_name entry I guess.
>
> Regards Hans

I renamed my setiathome_4.3_i386-pc-solaris2.9 file to setiathome_4.3_i686-pc-linux-gnu and started boinc. Now it does not complain about a version it can not find.

It seems the file version is recognized from anywhere (code or boinc-server) isn't it?

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