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Okay, I've installed Linux Mint Cinnamon v19.2 to a USB... now what could go wrong?
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George Send message Joined: 23 Oct 17 Posts: 222 Credit: 2,597,521 RAC: 13 |
Okay... I've decided to tinker with Linux Mint Cinnamon v19.2, and I'm somewhat successful. But... I've downloaded and installed Mint to a virgin USB thumb drive and booted to the same, I am running it on the thumb drive instead of my SSD. Only thing, Mint does not recognize my GPU which is a 2060. I wonder if this is because I'm using a USB instead of the SSD? But then, in Linux (before I downloaded Mint) I couldn't get my screen to show anything other than 1024x768 w/4:3 resolution. I even tried downloading a different driver specifically for Linux but it didn't work, said the driver was corrupt. My SETI account does show Linux Mint as a second computer with a new ID, though no tasks yet because it just began. In the mean time, this is what my event log says at/during start up, I just cut it off when it says "got 100 new tasks": Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | Starting BOINC client version 7.9.3 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | Libraries: libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3 Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | No usable GPUs found Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | Creating new client state file Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | [libc detection] gathered: 2.27, Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1 Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | Host name: mint Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | Processor: 12 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 990 @ 3.47GHz [Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2] Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | 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 pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid dtherm ida arat Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | OS: Linux LinuxMint: Linux Mint 19.2 Tina [4.15.0-54-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)] Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | Memory: 15.65 GB physical, 0 bytes virtual Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | Disk: 7.83 GB total, 7.56 GB free Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | Local time is UTC -5 hours Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | Config: GUI RPCs allowed from: Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | Last benchmark was 18130 days 21:15:05 ago Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | No general preferences found - using defaults Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | Reading preferences override file Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | Preferences: Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | max memory usage when active: 8015.20 MB Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | max memory usage when idle: 14427.36 MB Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | max disk usage: 7.04 GB Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | don't use GPU while active Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25% Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager) Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | Setting up project and slot directories Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | Checking active tasks Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | Setting up GUI RPC socket Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | gui_rpc_auth.cfg is empty - no GUI RPC password protection Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | Checking presence of 0 project files Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | This computer is not attached to any projects Thu Aug 22 16:20:38 2019 | | Suspending computation - CPU is busy Thu Aug 22 16:20:48 2019 | | Resuming computation Thu Aug 22 17:45:23 2019 | | Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php Thu Aug 22 17:46:23 2019 | | Running CPU benchmarks Thu Aug 22 17:46:23 2019 | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress Thu Aug 22 17:46:55 2019 | | Benchmark results: Thu Aug 22 17:46:55 2019 | | Number of CPUs: 12 Thu Aug 22 17:46:55 2019 | | 3272 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU Thu Aug 22 17:46:55 2019 | | 100209 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU Thu Aug 22 17:46:56 2019 | | Resuming computation Thu Aug 22 17:46:59 2019 | SETI@home | Master file download succeeded Thu Aug 22 17:47:04 2019 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Project initialization. Thu Aug 22 17:47:04 2019 | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU Thu Aug 22 17:47:06 2019 | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks Thu Aug 22 17:47:06 2019 | SETI@home | New computer location: home Thu Aug 22 17:47:06 2019 | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 09-Aug-2019 09:23:16) Thu Aug 22 17:47:06 2019 | SETI@home | Computer location: home Thu Aug 22 17:47:06 2019 | SETI@home | General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults Thu Aug 22 17:47:06 2019 | | Reading preferences override file Thu Aug 22 17:47:06 2019 | | Preferences: Thu Aug 22 17:47:06 2019 | | max memory usage when active: 8015.20 MB Thu Aug 22 17:47:06 2019 | | max memory usage when idle: 16030.39 MB Thu Aug 22 17:47:06 2019 | | max disk usage: 5.45 GB Thu Aug 22 17:47:06 2019 | | don't use GPU while active Thu Aug 22 17:47:06 2019 | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 35% Thu Aug 22 17:47:06 2019 | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager) Thu Aug 22 17:47:08 2019 | SETI@home | Started download of setiathome_8.00_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Thu Aug 22 17:47:08 2019 | SETI@home | Started download of setigraphics_8.00_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Thu Aug 22 17:47:11 2019 | SETI@home | Finished download of setigraphics_8.00_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Thu Aug 22 17:47:11 2019 | SETI@home | Started download of seti_800.jpg Thu Aug 22 17:47:12 2019 | SETI@home | Finished download of seti_800.jpg Thu Aug 22 17:47:12 2019 | SETI@home | Started download of setiathome-8.00_AUTHORS Thu Aug 22 17:47:13 2019 | SETI@home | Finished download of setiathome-8.00_AUTHORS Thu Aug 22 17:47:13 2019 | SETI@home | Started download of setiathome-8.00_COPYING Thu Aug 22 17:47:14 2019 | SETI@home | Finished download of setiathome_8.00_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Thu Aug 22 17:47:14 2019 | SETI@home | Finished download of setiathome-8.00_COPYING Thu Aug 22 17:47:14 2019 | SETI@home | Started download of setiathome-8.00_COPYRIGHT Thu Aug 22 17:47:14 2019 | SETI@home | Started download of setiathome-8.00_README Thu Aug 22 17:47:15 2019 | SETI@home | Finished download of setiathome-8.00_COPYRIGHT Thu Aug 22 17:47:15 2019 | SETI@home | Finished download of setiathome-8.00_README Thu Aug 22 17:47:15 2019 | SETI@home | Started download of bl_bkg_800.jpg Thu Aug 22 17:47:15 2019 | SETI@home | Started download of bl_800.jpg Thu Aug 22 17:47:16 2019 | SETI@home | Finished download of bl_bkg_800.jpg Thu Aug 22 17:47:16 2019 | SETI@home | Finished download of bl_800.jpg Thu Aug 22 17:47:16 2019 | SETI@home | Started download of 20au19ab.10339.12746.12.39.11.vlar Thu Aug 22 17:47:16 2019 | SETI@home | Started download of arecibo_181.png Thu Aug 22 17:47:16 2019 | SETI@home | Started download of sah_40.png Thu Aug 22 17:47:16 2019 | SETI@home | Started download of sah_banner_290.png Thu Aug 22 17:47:16 2019 | SETI@home | Started download of sah_ss_290.png Thu Aug 22 17:47:17 2019 | SETI@home | Finished download of 20au19ab.10339.12746.12.39.11.vlar Thu Aug 22 17:47:17 2019 | SETI@home | Finished download of arecibo_181.png Thu Aug 22 17:47:17 2019 | SETI@home | Finished download of sah_40.png Thu Aug 22 17:47:17 2019 | SETI@home | Finished download of sah_banner_290.png Thu Aug 22 17:47:17 2019 | SETI@home | Finished download of sah_ss_290.png Thu Aug 22 17:47:17 2019 | SETI@home | Starting task 20au19ab.10339.12746.12.39.11.vlar_0 Thu Aug 22 17:47:47 2019 | SETI@home | Computation for task 20au19ab.10339.12746.12.39.11.vlar_0 finished Thu Aug 22 17:47:49 2019 | SETI@home | Started upload of 20au19ab.10339.12746.12.39.11.vlar_0_r736026149_0 Thu Aug 22 17:47:52 2019 | SETI@home | Finished upload of 20au19ab.10339.12746.12.39.11.vlar_0_r736026149_0 Thu Aug 22 17:52:12 2019 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Thu Aug 22 17:52:12 2019 | SETI@home | Reporting 1 completed tasks Thu Aug 22 17:52:12 2019 | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU Thu Aug 22 17:52:14 2019 | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 100 new tasks Any comments, good or bad, or even neutral are welcome and appreciated. Once again, I'll admit I'm a newbie at this and I'm also ignorant with some (much?) of the lingo and stuff. I'm going to have a cocktail and a smoke and I'll be back in awhile. George |
George Send message Joined: 23 Oct 17 Posts: 222 Credit: 2,597,521 RAC: 13 |
Okay, I'm back. Anybody have any comments or criticisms they want to toss in? George |
Zalster Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5517 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242 |
Never used a USB for running Linux, less so for mint. Obviously there is no driver installed for the GPU. So you need to find a way to do that. Maybe Stephen? I think he runs linux from a stick. Might want to see if he can tell you how to do it. You never mention what driver you used. I thought you needed 428 or later. Good luck. |
IntenseGuy Send message Joined: 25 Sep 00 Posts: 190 Credit: 23,498,825 RAC: 9 |
I suspect you need to install the video driver. I'm no Linux guru but I think you want: sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-430 |
juan BFP Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 9786 Credit: 572,710,851 RAC: 3,799 |
Until you fix the driver problem (install it) you can't crunch on the GPU Thu Aug 22 16:15:05 2019 | | No usable GPUs found Your host DL 100 CPU WU as expected, so nothing wrong there. |
Mike Bader Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 231 Credit: 20,366,214 RAC: 33 |
Is non-BOINC CPU 25% enough? Mike Bader BOINC V7.16.5 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_join_form.php?id=5 - Join Our International Team [img]http://boinc.mundayweb.com/one/stats.php? |
Mike Bader Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 231 Credit: 20,366,214 RAC: 33 |
I am running linux on a USB for diskless computers. It is going to beat up your usb stick get a good name brand one Mike Bader BOINC V7.16.5 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_join_form.php?id=5 - Join Our International Team [img]http://boinc.mundayweb.com/one/stats.php? |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
I suspect you need to install the video driver. This is correct. Or rather simplified as: sudo apt install nvidia-driver-430 This will install the nvidia drivers so that BOINC can use them to detect your gpu. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
George Send message Joined: 23 Oct 17 Posts: 222 Credit: 2,597,521 RAC: 13 |
I'll try it again, but the first time it said the file was corrupt. And yes, I'm using a new SanDisk 3.1 USB so I don't think it'll be hard on my USB. George |
George Send message Joined: 23 Oct 17 Posts: 222 Credit: 2,597,521 RAC: 13 |
This is what I got: mint@mint:~$ sudo apt install nvidia-driver-430 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done nvidia-driver-430 is already the newest version (430.26-0ubuntu0.18.04.2). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 195 not upgraded. mint@mint:~$ sudo apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libboinc7 Suggested packages: boinc-client-opencl boinc-client-nvidia-cuda The following packages will be upgraded: boinc-client boinc-manager libboinc7 3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 192 not upgraded. Need to get 2198 kB of archives. After this operation, 7168 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64 boinc-client amd64 7.9.3+dfsg-5ubuntu2 [448 kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64 libboinc7 amd64 7.9.3+dfsg-5ubuntu2 [383 kB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64 boinc-manager amd64 7.9.3+dfsg-5ubuntu2 [1367 kB] Fetched 2198 kB in 1s (1863 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 254650 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../boinc-client_7.9.3+dfsg-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking boinc-client (7.9.3+dfsg-5ubuntu2) over (7.9.3+dfsg-5) ... Preparing to unpack .../libboinc7_7.9.3+dfsg-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libboinc7:amd64 (7.9.3+dfsg-5ubuntu2) over (7.9.3+dfsg-5) ... Preparing to unpack .../boinc-manager_7.9.3+dfsg-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking boinc-manager (7.9.3+dfsg-5ubuntu2) over (7.9.3+dfsg-5) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-21) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23+linuxmint6) ... Setting up libboinc7:amd64 (7.9.3+dfsg-5ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.23) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ... Setting up boinc-client (7.9.3+dfsg-5ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ... Setting up boinc-manager (7.9.3+dfsg-5ubuntu2) ... mint@mint:~$ I then "exited" BOINC Manager, waited a few seconds and restarted it. What now? George |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
What file system did you put on the USB stick? Did you accept the default ext4 during the installation? Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
You have to reboot Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
Video drivers are not standalone like they are in Windows. They are incorporated directly into the Linux kernel. Why you have to reboot the machine to load the new kernel with the video drivers inside them. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
George Send message Joined: 23 Oct 17 Posts: 222 Credit: 2,597,521 RAC: 13 |
Keith Meyers wrote: What file system did you put on the USB stick? Did you accept the default ext4 during the installation? I'm not sure what you mean. I put Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.2 on when I loaded it. I've no clue what the default ext4 is. George |
George Send message Joined: 23 Oct 17 Posts: 222 Credit: 2,597,521 RAC: 13 |
I'm going to reboot now. Fingers crossed... George |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
Keith Meyers wrote: The default file system for Linux is called ext4. Just a different filesystem compared to what you are used to seeing with DOS and Windows. A better, more advanced filesystem that might be compared to the standard NTFS filesystem of Windows. There are many filesystems in use in Linux, all more advanced and mission-critical compared to Windows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4 Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
George Send message Joined: 23 Oct 17 Posts: 222 Credit: 2,597,521 RAC: 13 |
Well I've obviously did something wrong here. I've lost SETI@Home, I can't find it anywhere in Linux. I think that what I did was download and install Linux in memory and it was lost when I rebooted. So... How do I download SETI onto my USB? Next thing, I still can't get anything other than the "laptop" display settings: 1024x768 w/4:3 resolution. Help! George |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
From your earlier posts, you installed the Mint distro version of BOINC which is daemon mode installation. Once you get it running, open the Manager Options menu >> Other options and select the "Run the client" checkmark. To start the client run: /etc/init.d/boinc-client start To stop the client run: /etc/init.d/boinc-client stop To restart the client run: /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Stop_or_start_BOINC_daemon_after_boot The initial installation of BOINC should have created a startup script to run the client automatically at login. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
Well I've obviously did something wrong here. I've lost SETI@Home, I can't find it anywhere in Linux. I think that what I did was download and install Linux in memory and it was lost when I rebooted. Open the Settings menu and select Devices >> Display >> Resolution and choose a different resolution appropriate for your monitor. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
George Send message Joined: 23 Oct 17 Posts: 222 Credit: 2,597,521 RAC: 13 |
From : https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html The live session is similar to a normal session (i.e. to Linux Mint once it is permanently installed on the computer), but with the following exceptions: That sort of answers my question... but then, Mike, how do you run Linux on a USB stick? George |
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