Hello,

I'm experiencing problems with a BOINC installation on a linux system.
I just installed boinc-client from the Alioth debian package, and it worked fine for a few minutes (~15) and then crashed with the message

/usr/bin/boinc_client[0x8087687]
/lib/libpthread.so.0[0x4029f825]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x403316f8]
SIGSEGV: segmentation violationStack trace (3 frames):

Exiting...

in stderrdea.txt .

Replacing the binaries did not help, so I deleted all files in the working directory except client_state.xml - after that it worked fine again for some more minutes, then crashed again.

If I try to restart boinc-client after a crash it begins processing workunits and crashes immediately.
The last entries in the stdoutdae.txt are:
The first time

2006-03-24 18:06:34 [climateprediction.net] Sending scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
2006-03-24 18:06:34 [climateprediction.net] Reason: To fetch work
2006-03-24 18:06:34 [climateprediction.net] Requesting 34560 seconds of new work

The second time (after the deletion of all files)

2006-03-24 19:38:43 [LHC@home] Sending scheduler request to http://lhcathome-sched1.cern.ch/scheduler/cgi
2006-03-24 19:38:43 [LHC@home] Reason: To fetch work
2006-03-24 19:38:43 [LHC@home] Requesting 172800 seconds of new work

The message in stderrdae.txt is always the same.

Some information about BOINC and the system:

2006-03-24 19:05:44 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.2.5 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
2006-03-24 19:05:44 [---] libcurl/7.13.2 OpenSSL/0.9.7e zlib/1.2.2 libidn/0.5.13
2006-03-24 19:05:44 [---] Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
2006-03-24 19:05:44 [---] Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
2006-03-24 19:05:44 [---] Memory: 5.91 GB physical, 7.84 GB virtual
2006-03-24 19:05:44 [---] Disk: 5.00 GB total, 4.51 GB free

Linux 2.4.20-021stab028.17.777-enterprise #1 SMP Tue Jul 19 19:31:27 MSD 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

The whole thing is a virtual machine in a virtuozzo environment, and currently there is not that much main memory left (some applications crashed due to lack of space, but I don't think the problems are related).


Any ideas?

If you need more information please tell me!

Thanks,

Jan Alsenz

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