Posts by Ketobbey

1) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Message from server: _("Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of") SETI@home Enhanced. (Message 1103862) Posted 6 May 2011 by Ketobbey Post: FIXED!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes this has been fixed. The error started when I updated Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04. While looking over the programs that you can downlaod using Ubuntu's Software Center I saw BOINC. I just deleted all my old BOINC files (for the second time) and then reset my pc. Found the BOINC manager install uising the Ubuntu Software Center and ran the install. Thats it! It works now!!! Thanks you so much everyone for you help and time.
2) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Message from server: _("Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of") SETI@home Enhanced. (Message 1103850) Posted 6 May 2011 by Ketobbey Post: OK thanks here is the output 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for i686-pc-linux-gnu 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3.4 c-ares/1.5.1 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] Data directory: /home/ketobbey/BOINC 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10] 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] Processor: 6.00 MB cache 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] 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 nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsav 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] OS: Linux: 2.6.38-8-generic-pae 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] Memory: 3.93 GB physical, 6.09 GB virtual 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] Disk: 140.72 GB total, 103.71 GB free 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] Local time is UTC +10 hours 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 9500 GT (driver version unknown, CUDA version 4000, compute capability 1.1, 1024MB, 86 GFLOPS peak) 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] Preferences: 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] max memory usage when active: 2011.80MB 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] max memory usage when idle: 3621.24MB 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] max disk usage: 10.00GB 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] don't use GPU while active 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 % 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] Not using a proxy 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] This computer is not attached to any projects 03-May-2011 00:07:54 [---] Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions Initialization completed the second last line is a worry...?
3) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Message from server: _("Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of") SETI@home Enhanced. (Message 1103817) Posted 6 May 2011 by Ketobbey Post: Just to dot all the i's, post the first 15 lines of the startup so we can see if there is any red flags. Thu 05 May 2011 09:58:39 PM MST Starting BOINC client version 6.10.59 for i686-pc-linux-gnu Thu 05 May 2011 09:58:39 PM MST Config: GUI RPC allowed from: Thu 05 May 2011 09:58:39 PM MST log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task Thu 05 May 2011 09:58:39 PM MST Libraries: libcurl/7.21.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8o zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.18 Thu 05 May 2011 09:58:39 PM MST Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client Thu 05 May 2011 09:58:39 PM MST Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6] Thu 05 May 2011 09:58:39 PM MST Processor: 6.00 MB cache Thu 05 May 2011 09:58:39 PM MST Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht nx constant_tsc pni ssse3 Thu 05 May 2011 09:58:39 PM MST OS: Linux: 2.6.38-8-generic Thu 05 May 2011 09:58:39 PM MST Memory: 1001.12 MB physical, 1022.00 MB virtual Thu 05 May 2011 09:58:39 PM MST Disk: 51.83 GB total, 46.52 GB free Thu 05 May 2011 09:58:39 PM MST Local time is UTC -7 hours Thu 05 May 2011 09:58:39 PM MST No usable GPUs found Thu 05 May 2011 09:58:39 PM MST No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults Where do I find this info? I will copy it when you can tell me where it is found. Thanks
4) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Message from server: _("Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of") SETI@home Enhanced. (Message 1103801) Posted 6 May 2011 by Ketobbey Post: Did you shut down the client before adding in the new software? Yes every time. :D It's just the thing you must do. But this is really starting to get me down. Look, has anybody here apart from me got Ubuntu 11.04 running with SETI@Home working?
5) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Message from server: _("Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of") SETI@home Enhanced. (Message 1103617) Posted 5 May 2011 by Ketobbey Post: It looks like you installed the astropulse app and app_info. you'll need to download the Multibeam app and app_info install the app like you did with the astropulse and then just add the multibeam app_info into your current one. Multibeam app is for if you want to use the GPU is that right? I don't want this computer to use it's GPU. or am I wrong? I don't see how this will help.? I am a Linux NOOB MultiBeam is just a type of workunit. There's a CPU MultiBeam app and there's a GPU MultiBeam app. So long as you don't install the GPU MultiBeam app, you don't have to worry about using the computer's GPU. MultiBeam == SETI@Home Enhanced So when the project is telling you that your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of SETI@Home Enhanced, it's because you have told the project you wish to do SETI@Home Enhanced workunits but you do not have a valid app specified in the app_info.xml file. Putting in the MultiBeam CPU app will solve this. Ok so I tried all 3 of these. None work. I still get the same error msg over and over. LX32_AKV8_AP5_SSE2.tar.gz Linux 32-bit SSE2 version for Intel/AMD - With AP V5.06 r411 LX32_AKV8_AP5_SSE3.tar.gz Linux 32-bit SSE3 version for Intel/AMD - With AP V5.06 r411 LX32_AKV8_AP5_SSSE3.tar.gz Linux 32-bit SSSE3 version for Intel Only - With AP V5.06 r411 MY XML READS <app_info><app><name>setiathome_enhanced</name></app><file_info><name>AK_V8_linux32_sse3</name><executable/></file_info><app_version><app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name><version_num>603</version_num><file_ref><file_name>AK_V8_linux32_sse3</file_name><main_program/></file_ref></app_version><app><name>astropulse_v505</name></app><file_info><name>ap_5.06r411_sse_linux32</name><executable/></file_info><app_version><app_name>astropulse_v505</app_name><version_num>506</version_num><file_ref><file_name>ap_5.06r411_sse_linux32</file_name><main_program/></file_ref></app_version></app_info> AND SETI ERRORS ARE STILL Fri 06 May 2011 00:32:27 EST SETI@home Message from server: _("Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of") SETI@home Enhanced. Please why is this not working? Thanks for the help everyone I do thank you for all you time helping me out.
6) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Message from server: _("Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of") SETI@home Enhanced. (Message 1103551) Posted 5 May 2011 by Ketobbey Post: I have tried all but the multibeam install and nothing works. I can't understand how SETI worked 100% then by upgrading my Ubuntu from 10.10 to this hideous 11.04 thing have almost halted except for Astropulse?
7) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Message from server: _("Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of") SETI@home Enhanced. (Message 1103549) Posted 5 May 2011 by Ketobbey Post: Your computer does support SSSE3. http://www.arkayn.us/forum/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=cat3 You might even try out the CUDA option as well. Oh yes it does. It was all working 2 weeks ago before I updated for Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 No matter what I try nothing is working I always get the same error msg. Ubuntu 11.04 has made this happen. I think
8) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Message from server: _("Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of") SETI@home Enhanced. (Message 1103548) Posted 5 May 2011 by Ketobbey Post: It looks like you installed the astropulse app and app_info. you'll need to download the Multibeam app and app_info install the app like you did with the astropulse and then just add the multibeam app_info into your current one. Multibeam app is for if you want to use the GPU is that right? I don't want this computer to use it's GPU. or am I wrong? I don't see how this will help.? I am a Linux NOOB
9) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Message from server: _("Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of") SETI@home Enhanced. (Message 1103546) Posted 5 May 2011 by Ketobbey Post: If not, set No New Tasks, finish all tasks, upload and report them, then stop BOINC and delete (rename) the app_info.xml file in your SETI@home project folder. After restarting BOINC, the stock application(s) will be downloaded and run. GruÃŸ, Gundolf Good help but didn't work and the stock application did not download. I am using Ubuntu 11.04 I didn't have any problems when I was running 10.10 2 weeks ago.
10) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Message from server: _("Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of") SETI@home Enhanced. (Message 1103213) Posted 4 May 2011 by Ketobbey Post: OMG! Really!? Grr I feel silly. What have I done? And What do I do? Please offer any and all HELP!!! Cheers :D
11) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Message from server: _("Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of") SETI@home Enhanced. (Message 1103096) Posted 4 May 2011 by Ketobbey Post: FILE READS: <app_info> <app> <name>astropulse_v505</name> </app> <file_info> <name>ap_5.06r411_sse_linux32</name> <executable/> </file_info> <app_version> <app_name>astropulse_v505</app_name> <version_num>506</version_num> <file_ref> <file_name>ap_5.06r411_sse_linux32</file_name> <main_program/> </file_ref> </app_version> </app_info>
12) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Message from server: _("Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of") SETI@home Enhanced. (Message 1102995) Posted 3 May 2011 by Ketobbey Post: Tue 03 May 2011 18:50:45 EST SETI@home Message from server: _("Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of") SETI@home Enhanced. I have U had this happen
13) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Ubuntu install help (Message 1102732) Posted 2 May 2011 by Ketobbey Post: Scott.A I hope this help. I just upgraded to 11.04 Ubuntu. My SETI/BOINC install was giving me errors so I deleted my BOINC Folder from my HOME directory. I then read the instructions I found on the forums here. I have made a thread. But I will post what I read here for you. I have updated the file name and thats all. The whole thing in it's original form can be found: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_user_posts.php?userid=23484 - there In Oct 2005 I started a thread on this forum entitled "How to install Seti on Linux - A newbie approach", well two years later I can say I've learned a thing or two about Linux and I found out that there are easier ways to install and configure Seti on Linux. The intention of this thread is to help NEWBIES, or people with little or no knowledge of Linux, especially the ones trying to break free from Windows. ************************ The instructions below were performed on Ubuntu 7.10. 1 - Download Boinc for Linux from this url - http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php - and save it. Firefox will usually save the files you download to your desktop by default. 2 - Copy the file you just downloaded from your desktop to your home folder. You can accomplish this by opening your home folder - click on Places and then Home Folder. Next right click the file you have just downloaded to the desktop, select Copy and then paste it to your Home Folder. If you have already downloaded the file to your Home Folder you can obviously skip this step. 3 - Next click on applications / accessories / terminal to open a terminal prompt. 4 - From inside the terminal prompt you can confirm if the boinc file is there by typing ls and hitting enter. You should see a list of files, including the sh boinc_6.10.58_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh file. Note that the boinc file may have a different name, such as boinc_different_version_number.sh. 4 - Still inside the terminal prompt type sh sh boinc_6.10.58_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh and hit enter. This command will create a BOINC folder and you will see the following message after it completes successfully: use /home/yourname/Desktop/BOINC/run manager to start BOINC 5 - Next type cd BOINC and hit enter. This command will place the cursor inside the BOINC folder. 6 - From inside your BOINC folder, type ./boincmgr and hit enter. 7 - At this point you will see the Boinc Manager, click Next, enter your project URL - a list of projects will appear where you can select the URL which belongs to your then click Next again. On the next screen select if you are a New or Existing User and enter the requested email and password accordingly. Lastly click on Finish. 8 - Allow the Boinc manager to download the first set of data. This may take a while, please be patient. Once all the data has been downloaded and the manager starts to process the data file, quit it by closing the Boinc Manager window. Next Step: Creating a cronjob to automatically start or keep your seti running: 1 - From a terminal prompt type: crontab -e and hit enter. 2 - The nano text editor will open and at the very top you will see the following line: # m h dom mon dow command This line is just a syntax example of a crontab command. The # at the beggining of the line indicates that this line is a comment. I strongly suggest to keep this line intact and start to enter your crontab commands on the next line. Here are the two commands you will need to enter in your crontab file: @reboot cd /home/YOURNAME_HERE/BOINC; ./boinc 1>>./boinclog 2>>./boincerr /60 * * * cd /home/YOURNAME_HERE/BOINC; ./boinc 1>>./boinclog 2>>./boincerr After entering these commands in the Crontab, hit Ctrl+0 to exit, then hit Enter followed by ctrl+x. This will exit the nano editor and save the crontab file. To confirm your crontab file has been saved correctly type the following commnand in the terminal prompt: crontab -l and hit enter. This will list the contents of your actual crontab. If you want to know more about this command, type crontab alone to get a list of switches you can use with it. Explanation of the commands in the Crontab: The first line will start your Boinc everytime your pc reboots. The second line will attempt to start your seti every hour. This line is useful in case your seti stops for any reason. If boinc is already running this line won't stop it. Note: If you think attempting to start Boinc every 60 minutes is overkill, just change the 60 - 60 minutes - into whatever you feel comfortable with. For 2 hours use 120, for 24 hours use 1440 and so and so forth. Both lines will log the crontab actions to a text file named boinclog and crontab errors to a text file named boincerr. Both these files will be saved in the same folder as Boinc. You can view these files by using the Gedit Text Editor using the following command from the Boinc terminal prompt: gedit boincerr or gedit boinclog. Obviously you can also read these files by open Gedit or any other text editor and navigating to the Boinc folder and selecting any of these two files. If you open the boincerr file you must likely will see the following line at regular intervals: Another instance of BOINC is running Do not panic, this is ok. It only means that Crontab cannot start Boinc again as its already running, which is great. Last but not least: Make sure the command lines in the crontab reflect the correct path where your Boinc folder is located. IE.: @reboot cd /home/johndoe/BOINC; ./boinc 1>>./boinclog 2>>./boincerr Where JohnDoe is the home folder name. Also do not forget that the path is case sensitive. So if your BOINC folder is in fact named boinc - with lower case - you have to enter it exactly like that. I hope this tutorial is easier than my 2 years old post. One mistake on my old post - which was in fact a Spanish translation - is that it instructs the user to run Boinc as root, which is a big no no. Happy crunching and welcome to the wonderful world of Linux. Good Luck I WILL Help You Any Way I Can KETOBBEY 2011
14) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Ubuntu 11.04 How to get SETI up and running (Message 1102727) Posted 2 May 2011 by Ketobbey Post: I FOUND THIS HERE: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_user_posts.php?userid=23484 Hi everyone, In Oct 2005 I started a thread on this forum entitled "How to install Seti on Linux - A newbie approach", well two years later I can say I've learned a thing or two about Linux and I found out that there are easier ways to install and configure Seti on Linux. The intention of this thread is to help NEWBIES, or people with little or no knowledge of Linux, especially the ones trying to break free from Windows. ************************ The instructions below were performed on Ubuntu 7.10. 1 - Download Boinc for Linux from this url - http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php - and save it. Firefox will usually save the files you download to your desktop by default. 2 - Copy the file you just downloaded from your desktop to your home folder. You can accomplish this by opening your home folder - click on Places and then Home Folder. Next right click the file you have just downloaded to the desktop, select Copy and then paste it to your Home Folder. If you have already downloaded the file to your Home Folder you can obviously skip this step. 3 - Next click on applications / accessories / terminal to open a terminal prompt. 4 - From inside the terminal prompt you can confirm if the boinc file is there by typing ls and hitting enter. You should see a list of files, including the boinc_5.10.21.i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh file. Note that the boinc file may have a different name, such as boinc_different_version_number.sh. 4 - Still inside the terminal prompt type sh boinc_5.10.21.i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh and hit enter. This command will create a BOINC folder and you will see the following message after it completes successfully: use /home/yourname/Desktop/BOINC/run manager to start BOINC 5 - Next type cd BOINC and hit enter. This command will place the cursor inside the BOINC folder. 6 - From inside your BOINC folder, type ./boincmgr and hit enter. 7 - At this point you will see the Boinc Manager, click Next, enter your project URL - a list of projects will appear where you can select the URL which belongs to your then click Next again. On the next screen select if you are a New or Existing User and enter the requested email and password accordingly. Lastly click on Finish. 8 - Allow the Boinc manager to download the first set of data. This may take a while, please be patient. Once all the data has been downloaded and the manager starts to process the data file, quit it by closing the Boinc Manager window. Next Step: Creating a cronjob to automatically start or keep your seti running: 1 - From a terminal prompt type: crontab -e and hit enter. 2 - The nano text editor will open and at the very top you will see the following line: # m h dom mon dow command This line is just a syntax example of a crontab command. The # at the beggining of the line indicates that this line is a comment. I strongly suggest to keep this line intact and start to enter your crontab commands on the next line. Here are the two commands you will need to enter in your crontab file: @reboot cd /home/YOURNAME_HERE/BOINC; ./boinc 1>>./boinclog 2>>./boincerr /60 * * * cd /home/YOURNAME_HERE/BOINC; ./boinc 1>>./boinclog 2>>./boincerr After entering these commands in the Crontab, hit Ctrl+0 to exit, then hit Enter followed by ctrl+x. This will exit the nano editor and save the crontab file. To confirm your crontab file has been saved correctly type the following commnand in the terminal prompt: crontab -l and hit enter. This will list the contents of your actual crontab. If you want to know more about this command, type crontab alone to get a list of switches you can use with it. Explanation of the commands in the Crontab: The first line will start your Boinc everytime your pc reboots. The second line will attempt to start your seti every hour. This line is useful in case your seti stops for any reason. If boinc is already running this line won't stop it. Note: If you think attempting to start Boinc every 60 minutes is overkill, just change the 60 - 60 minutes - into whatever you feel comfortable with. For 2 hours use 120, for 24 hours use 1440 and so and so forth. Both lines will log the crontab actions to a text file named boinclog and crontab errors to a text file named boincerr. Both these files will be saved in the same folder as Boinc. You can view these files by using the Gedit Text Editor using the following command from the Boinc terminal prompt: gedit boincerr or gedit boinclog. Obviously you can also read these files by open Gedit or any other text editor and navigating to the Boinc folder and selecting any of these two files. If you open the boincerr file you must likely will see the following line at regular intervals: Another instance of BOINC is running Do not panic, this is ok. It only means that Crontab cannot start Boinc again as its already running, which is great. Last but not least: Make sure the command lines in the crontab reflect the correct path where your Boinc folder is located. IE.: @reboot cd /home/johndoe/BOINC; ./boinc 1>>./boinclog 2>>./boincerr Where JohnDoe is the home folder name. Also do not forget that the path is case sensitive. So if your BOINC folder is in fact named boinc - with lower case - you have to enter it exactly like that. I hope this tutorial is easier than my 2 years old post. One mistake on my old post - which was in fact a Spanish translation - is that it instructs the user to run Boinc as root, which is a big no no. Happy crunching and welcome to the wonderful world of Linux. cheers. -Well Thats how I did it last time-
15) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Ubuntu 11.04 How to get SETI up and running (Message 1102113) Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Ketobbey Post: Hi. I have just updated to 11.04 from 10.10 ( I loved 10,10) I have no idea how to get SETI and BOINC running. All my files for SETI and BOINC are gone so I am starting a fresh. Please let me know how I install BOINC and SETI agian. It was not super hard but I am still a novice to UBUNTU/LINUX Thanks Ketobbey-2011
16) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Processor usage (Message 892665) Posted 8 May 2009 by Ketobbey Post: they are both running @ 50%. But this is not how the old Bionic worked. it uses both CPU'z(Cores) at 95% Both of them each. Not 95% in total of 1 + 1 = 2 or 95%, but 1+1=190% I am sorry. I get it now. And my statment above is false. the older Version (I am running on another pc) uses 2 cores @ 50% each = 100% Thansk for your time and your help. KPW2oo9
17) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Processor usage (Message 892625) Posted 8 May 2009 by Ketobbey Post: they are both running @ 50%. But this is not how the old Bionic worked. it uses both CPU'z(Cores) at 95% Both of them each. Not 95% in total of 1 + 1 = 2 or 95%, but 1+1=190%
18) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Processor usage (Message 892613) Posted 8 May 2009 by Ketobbey Post: ok. I am with you so fare. I looked into the CPU'z running and both are doing 50% each. This is not good enough and I want to use around 85% of both. Is there something I can do to get the Dou 2 corez running with more power? (more instructions used for SETI?) OH and in the Processes in Windows Task Man'r there is only 1 'astropulse_5.03_windows_intelx86.exe' running. (mem 50,064K) thanks p.s do I need an app?
19) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Processor usage (Message 892386) Posted 7 May 2009 by Ketobbey Post: Do I need to tell the new bionic that I have intel core 2 duo? I am not sure if it is running both of them.... the CPU's. Thanks
20) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : I don't WANT to use CUDA!!! (Message 890541) Posted 2 May 2009 by Ketobbey Post: Ageless.... You know I love you? Thanks Again. Your a true Champion to me. KPW2oo9

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