Ubuntu 12.04 and BOINC

I am far from being both a noob or a guru, so it is not all that unusual when I cannot get something to work on my own and have to look for help.

It is more unusual that I actually have to ASK for it, though. However, this is one of those times. I'm simply lost on this one and I am finally throwing my hands up in the air and asking for pointers and/or directions.

I have just built out a new box that is running an AMD x6 with plenty of RAM and it is running, you guessed it, Ubuntu 12.04 LTR x64.

A little reading and a kind hand from Dan has pointed out that the package that is in the Ubuntu repos right now is, shall we say, flawed.

So...... as much as I hate to be part of the testing world these days, I have added a PPA that he pointed out and installed the x.27 release (which I am disappointed to see is x86 and not x64). However, this doesn't seem to have provided me any love either.

Regardless of what version I am running and whether it is a true x64 or not, I cannot get BIONC to download anything from any project. I have checked all the settings I know to check and I find nothing out of the ordinary, but it still refuses to communicate with any project server.

I would normally think that there might be something in the router/firewall device blocking it, but BOINC on my old, worn out laptop works just fine which tells me the firewall settings are not where I should look.

Since I know where NOT to waste my time, I don't seem to know where to spend it to get this accomplished. So now I come to the forums and beg for mercy. Somebody have some pointers/suggestions/tips/prayers/sacrifices to offer? PLEASE??
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Could we start by having you post the first 30 lines or so of your BOINC Managers event log.
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Could we start by having you post the first 30 lines or so of your BOINC Managers event log.

Yes, I think this is a good starting point Skil.

His Boinc (on his 12.04) has not even connected to the project computers.

This tells me he is having some other issue besides the 7.0.24/Ubuntu bug that has been well documented here. (He has tried a couple installs of boinc I believe, yet his 12.04 box just has not even connected to the project)

Wizard, stick with that 7.0.27 please, because once we figure out your issue, you will not have luck crunching Seti with 7.0.24 (though it would connect to the project servers which is why I'm positive you are having another issue...)

Yep, somethings not right...

Ok, I remember this error from past installs now that I have searched it on the web a little.

Found that this has to do with the wrong version of http being used and even found the code and the file to add it to (cc_config.xml).

Now for my next question:

There seem to be two versions of this file on this box in two different places

You can check what that error is on BOINC FAQ(google it) but You'd be surprised what the BOINC guru's can gleen from just those first 30 lines. So please let us have a look.
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This is weird for sure, I don't have any useful input for you...



I thinks it's especially weird that your boinc is "sending scheduler request" but not connecting to any project servers... wth.


To answer your question of which file to edit. It doesn't matter:
/var/lib/boinc-client/cc_config.xml <--- These files here are just hard-links to /etc/boinc-client/cc_config.xml. So if you edit the file at either location, you are in essence editing the same file. (which is why they both appeared edited, they are both the same file. :-)
(hard-links allow one file to exist at two or more locations, without the file actually existing in duplicate like with NTFS)


So hopefully once you make your edit, you'll be all set. Good luck.

You can check what that error is on BOINC FAQ(google it) but You'd be surprised what the BOINC guru's can gleen from just those first 30 lines. So please let us have a look.

You can check what that error is on BOINC FAQ(google it) but You'd be surprised what the BOINC guru's can gleen from just those first 30 lines. So please let us have a look.

no you didn't get any work but you probably have one of the boxed ticked that stop computation (whether you have any or not) if CPU used goes over a certain percent.

Also that doesn't appear to be the first 30 lines but some 30 random lines.

The first 30 lines will show your projects your CPU and a multitude of other info about your BOINC manager and processes.

I suggest going under the advanced tab and setting the "suspend work if CPU usage greater than" to 0 this will prevent it from suspending.

I also wonder if you are running a firewall that is preventing the BOINC processes from accessing the internet?
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no you didn't get any work but you probably have one of the boxed ticked that stop computation (whether you have any or not) if CPU used goes over a certain percent.

Also that doesn't appear to be the first 30 lines but some 30 random lines.

The first 30 lines will show your projects your CPU and a multitude of other info about your BOINC manager and processes.

I suggest going under the advanced tab and setting the "suspend work if CPU usage greater than" to 0 this will prevent it from suspending.

I also wonder if you are running a firewall that is preventing the BOINC processes from accessing the internet?

SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID not assigned yet; resource share 100

This ^ one is interesting to me. Any ideas folks?

SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID not assigned yet; resource share 100

This ^ one is interesting to me. Any ideas folks?

That's the logical result when the client never gets through to the server ;-)

And as for your cc_config.xml suggestion, I'm not sure that you can nest the <log_flags> and <options> sections. So, I'd suggest:

<cc_config> <log_flags> <task>1</task> <file_xfer>1</file_xfer> <sched_ops>1</sched_ops> </log_flags> <options> <http_1_0>1</http_1_0> </options> </cc_config>

Gruß,
Gundolf

Scratch that -- it is running!

Darned error won't beat me.......

Thanks for the input, guys. Couldn't have done it without you both pushing me on!


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Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | Starting BOINC client version 7.0.27 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | Libraries: libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | Processor: 6 AuthenticAMD AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor [Family 16 Model 10 Stepping 0]
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | Processor: 512.00 KB cache
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt cpb npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save pausefilter
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | OS: Linux: 3.2.0-26-generic
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | Memory: 11.48 GB physical, 11.74 GB virtual
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | Disk: 918.60 GB total, 836.68 GB free
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | Local time is UTC -5 hours
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | No usable GPUs found
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | Config: GUI RPC allowed from:
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID not assigned yet; resource share 100
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | No general preferences found - using defaults
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | Reading preferences override file
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | Preferences:
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | max memory usage when active: 5879.63MB
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | max memory usage when idle: 10583.34MB
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | max disk usage: 10.00GB
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | don't use GPU while active
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:46:08 PM CDT | | Not using a proxy
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:48:42 PM CDT | SETI@home | update requested by user
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:48:47 PM CDT | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:48:47 PM CDT | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU
Thu 28 Jun 2012 07:48:49 PM CDT | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Error 417