Hello,

My attempt to run boinc on my FreeBSD box is becoming a nightmare, maybe someone can help. I've been trying to get it to run all night but no success.

I have a FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE machine and installed boinc-client and boinc-einsteinathome from current ports tree, with the WITHOUT_X11 option set (I just want the command line because it's a server).

The client is started at system startup in /etc/rc.conf :

boinc_enable="YES"
boinc_flags="-no_gui_rpc"

I managed to attach the client to the einstein project, as shown here:

root@dirkd: ~# boinc_client -show_projects
2006-11-14 00:57:00 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.9 for i386-portbld-freebsd
2006-11-14 00:57:00 [---] libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.7e zlib/1.2.2
2006-11-14 00:57:00 [---] Data directory: /root
2006-11-14 00:57:00 [---] Processor: 1 i386 Intel Pentium III
2006-11-14 00:57:00 [---] Memory: 567.41 MB physical, 0 bytes virtual
2006-11-14 00:57:00 [---] Disk: 495.73 MB total, 417.50 MB free
projects:
2006-11-14 00:57:00 [---] URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ name: Einstein@Home

However no data is being crunched, my cpu is still idle :-( Also I've never been able to use the boinc-cmd command properly:

root@dirkd: ~# boinc_cmd --get_state                                            connect: Can't assign requested address
can't connect to local host

After half a day of trying I've given up, and no man page or webpage I can find is very helpful in this environment. If someone might be able to help me I can still give Boinc a try.

Thanks,
Marc

Too bad, nobody seems to be able to support Boinc on BSD. :-(

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Sorry, I know next to nothing (on a good day) about FreeBSD.


Since you're trying to run Einstein, have you asked over there? I know the admins there are pretty good about answering questions.


You also might want to check the Seti Number Crunching forums for any related threads.

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Kathryn :o)

The FreeBSD beta client from Einstein appears to be running smoothly now!

Thanks.

Great!

Enjoy crunchin'!

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Kathryn :o)