Hi,

I am trying to setup setiathome on Fedora Core 9 x64 4(CPU's).

I got as far as the following:

1) yum install boinc-client boinc-manager
2) /sbin/chkconfig boinc-client
3) /sbin/service boinc-client start

The BOINC client requires initialization (no projects attac[WARNING]
Starting BOINC client as a daemon: [ OK ]

I have my seti@Home old account and I can log into the BOINC website.

I do not have a GUI interface.

What should I do to log into my account and start to download work units.

Kind Regards
Stephen

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You could use boinc_cmd to do almost everything the GUI boincmgr can do.

I'm not sure where boinc_cmd lives when installed through yum, so you may have to search for it.

Once you've found it, you can type boinc_cmd --help to see what it can do.
You probably need to run the attach command, something like
boinc_cmd --project_attach http://setiathome.berkeley.edu your_seti_account_key

Boinc Manager should be listed in the application menu under one of the headings.

I can't remember which one as it has been a while since I played with Fedora.

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Hi TumUjin,

I got that after a lot of reading but am now stuck again.
After a day it appears not to have downloaded any packets.

Could this be a port issue? if so what port?
Also do I need to edit any files located in /var/lib/boinc/ ?

The old Seti@Home downloaded packets, and when completed submitted them automatically and downloaded a new packet will this do the same thing?

This is what I am getting:

[root@dragon boinc]# /usr/bin/boinc_cmd --get_state
======== Projects ========
1) -----------
name:
master URL: http://www.setiathome.berkely.edu/
user_name:
team_name:
resource share: 100.000000
user_total_credit: 0.000000
user_expavg_credit: 0.000000
host_total_credit: 0.000000
host_expavg_credit: 0.000000
nrpc_failures: 2
master_fetch_failures: 4
master fetch pending: yes
scheduler RPC pending: yes
attached via Account Manager: no
ended: no
suspended via GUI: no
don't request more work: no
disk usage: 0.000000
last RPC: 0.000000
project files downloaded: 0.000000

======== Applications ========

======== Application versions ========

======== Workunits ========

======== Results ========


Kind Regards
Stephen

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Hi Stephen

hmmn, things look strange
it seems to have attached because its showing the seti project but...
it doesn't show the project name, it should show name: SETI@home
and it doesn't show your username or total credits

try an update with boinc_cmd --project http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ update
wait a minute or so and then run the boinc_cmd --get_state command again and see if anything changes

edit
you did change your_seti_account_key to your seti account key didn't you?

[root@dragon boinc]# /usr/bin/boinc_cmd --get_state
======== Projects ========
1) -----------
name:
master URL: http://www.setiathome.berkely.edu/
user_name:
team_name:
resource share: 100.000000
user_total_credit: 0.000000
user_expavg_credit: 0.000000
host_total_credit: 0.000000
host_expavg_credit: 0.000000
nrpc_failures: 2
master_fetch_failures: 4
master fetch pending: yes
scheduler RPC pending: yes
attached via Account Manager: no
ended: no
suspended via GUI: no
don't request more work: no
disk usage: 0.000000
last RPC: 0.000000
project files downloaded: 0.000000

======== Applications ========

======== Application versions ========

======== Workunits ========

======== Results ========

I think that's the problem (above in bold). What does stdoutdae.txt tell you?

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

Hi Temujin, Gundolf,

I tried the boinc_cmd --project http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ update
This is what I got:

[root@dragon /]# boinc_cmd --project http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ update
Authorization failure: -155

I am assuming that when you attached to a project you use the Account key listed under ACCOUNT.
I used the following command:

/usr/bin/boinc_cmd --project_attach http://www.setiathome.berkely.edu a262cdf3acf857b9d82cf5xxxxxxxxxx

I did not edit any files. I did exactly as listed above.

I then issued a restart and got the following from stdoutdae.txt

24-Jan-2009 12:22:05 [---] Received signal 15
24-Jan-2009 12:22:05 [---] Exit requested by user
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [---] Starting BOINC client version 6.2.15 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [---] This a development version of BOINC and may not function properly
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.18.2 NSS/3.12.0.3 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.14 libssh2/0.18
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [---] Running as a daemon
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [---] Data directory: /var/lib/boinc
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [---] Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6]
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr dca lahf_lm
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [---] OS: Linux: 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.x86_64
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [---] Memory: 3.87 GB physical, 1.94 GB virtual
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [---] Disk: 582.53 GB total, 535.71 GB free
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [---] Local time is UTC +2 hours
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [---] No coprocessors
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [http://www.setiathome.berkely.edu/] URL: http://www.setiathome.berkely.edu/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1983.38MB
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3570.08MB
24-Jan-2009 12:22:06 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB


Any Ideas?

Kind Regards
Stephen

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Hi Temujin, Gundolf,

Thanks for all your help. I got the solution by following what you both wrote but Temujin, your update command pointed me in the correct direction and a cat of acct_mgr_reply.xml and some luck I did a copy past of the URL and I got a 404.

It all came down to:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu
and not
http://www.setiathome.berkely.edu/

NOTE the spelling of berkely

This helped me also:
/usr/bin/boinc_cmd --lookup_account http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ email password

Thanks once again.
Stephen

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Thanks for all your help. I got the solution by following what you both wrote

Oops, sorry for not replying earlier but glad you're up & running.

I think your main problem was as Gundolf said in that your initial attach command didn't go through correctly.

you worked it out in the end though, well done