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I added this feature.
-- David

I saw your mail on boinc_projects, but I'm very busy this week. So here is it in short. Everything in test/ is old and deprecated. If make succeeds than you have a (somehow) working source and can run make_project with the appropriate options. Options are here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/MakeProject
A more explainative tutorial-like description is in the cookbook: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/CreateProjectCookbook This is for Debain based systems! You may have to change some commands for other distributions.

Regards
Christian

-- Testing framework sanity --------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./test/test_sanity.py", line 34, in <module>
    test_msg("framework sanity")
  File "/home/boincadm/boinc-v2/test/testbase.py", line 759, in test_msg
    test_init()
  File "/home/boincadm/boinc-v2/test/testbase.py", line 30, in test_init
    os.chdir(os.path.join(os.getenv('srcdir'),'test'))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 68, in join
    elif path == '' or path.endswith('/'):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'endswith'
 
Exception thrown - bug in test scripts?
ERRORS.COUNT: 1
Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs
    func(*targs, **kargs)
  File "/home/boincadm/boinc-v2/test/testbase.py", line 788, in osexit_test_done
    os._exit(test_done())
  File "/home/boincadm/boinc-v2/test/testbase.py", line 772, in test_done
    if options.delete_testbed == 'always':
AttributeError: Options instance has no attribute 'delete_testbed'
Error in sys.exitfunc:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs
    func(*targs, **kargs)
  File "/home/boincadm/boinc-v2/test/testbase.py", line 788, in osexit_test_done
    os._exit(test_done())
  File "/home/boincadm/boinc-v2/test/testbase.py", line 772, in test_done
    if options.delete_testbed == 'always':
AttributeError: Options instance has no attribute 'delete_testbed'

apt-cache search "^language-pack-[a-z][a-z]$"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install language-pack-fi
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo nano ~/.bash_profile
----
export LC_CTYPE="fi_FI.UTF-8"
----
sudo nano /etc/default/useradd
----
SHELL=/bin/bash
HOME=/home
----
sudo useradd -d /home/boincadm -m boincadm
sudo passwd boincadm
sudo passwd root
sudo nano /etc/sudoers
----
# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
boincadm ALL=(ALL) ALL
----
su boincadm
cd /home/boincadm
sudo usermod -aG boincadm www-data
sudo apt-get install git build-essential apache2 php5 mysql-server php5-gd php5-cli php5-mysql python-mysqldb libtool automake autoconf pkg-config libmysql++-dev libssl-dev
git clone git://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc-v2.git
mysql -u root -p
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'boincadm'@'localhost';
SELECT * FROM mysql.user WHERE user='boincadm';
EXIT
cd boinc-v2
./_autosetup
./configure --enable-server --disable-client --disable-manager
make
./test/test_sanity.py

What is wrapper_26003_windows_x86_64.pdb? What is this pdb file? Is it necessary for the wrapper application to work? I didn't include that in my app folder. Is that the cause of the problem?

<core_client_version>7.0.46</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
er - exit code 195 (0xc3)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
wrapper: starting
11:29:14 (7732): unexpected tag in job.xml: zipfilename
11:29:14 (7732): wrapper: running ../../projects/192.168.1.119_test/phoenix.exe ()

[0 Khash/s] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [DISCONNECTED]
[04/24/2013 11:29:15] Welcome to Phoenix v2.0.0     
[0 Khash/s] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [DISCONNECTED]Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "phoenix.py", line 6, in <module>
  File "phoenix2\__init__.pyo", line 51, in main
  File "phoenix2\core\PhoenixCore.pyo", line 90, in start
  File "phoenix2\core\PhoenixCore.pyo", line 144, in discoverPlugins
WindowsError: [Error 3] M&#228;&#228;ritetty&#228; polkua ei l&#246;ydy: 'C:\\ProgramData\\BOINC\\projects\\192.168.1.119_test\\plugins/*.*'

                                                      close failed in file object destructor:
sys.excepthook is missing
lost sys.stderr
app exit status: 0xff
11:29:15 (7732): called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>
]]>

I tested what you send me. You started boinc with --exit_before_start. In this case everything is in your slot folder. Some of the files are sym links to the project folder.

I resolved the symlinks by copying the files from projects folder into the slot folder.
Than I started the wrapper on the command line.
The zip file was unziped and the folders doc and plugins and files in these folders were created.
So UNZIP SUBFOLDERS WORKS!

Is this really the end for my project? I wouldn't want to give up because of a zip file.

No.

I have made an "unzip wrapper" for the BOINC wrapper for the Constellation project, which unpacks a 7z archive in the first step, and then starts the application according job.xml.
If you don't solve this issue, I can share the it with you. But, I have got to make some small modification, that it will generally work on other project.

Please run your boinc with --exit_before_start and run a workunit. Boinc will setup the slot directory and exits before starting the wu.

Than send me the slot folder and the project folder.

Check if you have everything what you expect in the slot folder.
Than you can just copy over the wrapper from the project folder into the slot folder and run it.
Afterwards check the std* files.

yoyo

There must be all files in one folder. I think subdirectories are not allowed.

The easiest way is to add all files into the version x folder and let BOINC download all.

This is the latest error message:

That error message is typical if the file has been compressed with a newer version or zip utility, using features - typically a better compression ratio - that an older unzip utility doesn't recognise.

Try making the utopia1_26012_windows_x86_64__opencl_nvidia_100.zip file again from the original sources, using less aggressive/more compatible compression settings, or an older utility.

<core_client_version>7.0.46</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
Funktio ei kelpaa.
 (0x1) - exit code 1 (0x1)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
wrapper: starting
13:55:07 (4768): unexpected tag in job.xml: zipfilename
[utopia1_26012_windows_x86_64__opencl_nvidia_100.zip]
  End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in utopia1_26012_windows_x86_64__opencl_nvidia_100.zip,
        and cannot find utopia1_26012_windows_x86_64__opencl_nvidia_100.zip.zip, period.
boinc_unzip() error: 9

</stderr_txt>
]]>

No, but the wiki knows. This also may involve some heavy testing as the wrapper in it's current state may not know which GPU to use or can't tell the worker programm and this will fail. Maybe it's even impossible to run GPU apps through the wrapper as the wrapper can't make sure that the non-BOINC GPU application uses the correct ressource (if there is more than one GPU present).

On a sidenote: Do have a specific concept (project) in mind or do you just want to optimize your own bitcoin mining operation? I wouldn't connect my computer to a bitcoin project if someone else is getting the bitcoins. And I also think it's a waste of resources because the exchange rate is not stable enough to know if the computer cycles used to generate a bitcoin are worth something in the future. I could investigate my unused cycles in research projects that I find more promising in producing actual results. But this is clearly a philosophical discussion.

If you want to use the GPU you should create a GPU application or else your application will fail because another app is already scheduled to run on the GPU.

<file_info>
    <name><OUTFILE_0/></name>
    <generated_locally/>
    <upload_when_present/>
    <max_nbytes>5000000</max_nbytes>
    <url><UPLOAD_URL/></url>
</file_info>
<result>
    <file_ref>
        <file_name><OUTFILE_0/></file_name>
        <open_name>phoenix.log</open_name>
        <copy_file/>
    </file_ref>
</result>

<file_info>
  <number>0</number>
</file_info>
<workunit>
  <file_ref>
    <file_number>0</file_number>
    <open_name>phoenix.cfg</open_name>
    <copy_file/>
  </file_ref>
  <rsc_fpops_bound>1e12</rsc_fpops_bound>
  <rsc_fpops_est>1e14</rsc_fpops_est>
</workunit>

<job_desc>
  <task>
    <application>phoenix.exe</application>
  </task>
  <unzip_input>
    <zipfilename>utopia1_26011_windows_x86_64.zip</zipfilename>
  </unzip_input>
</job_desc>

--app_name worker should be --app_name utopia1
--wu_name worker_nodelete should be --wu_name utopia1_test1 (the nodelete tells the server to keep the input files in case you want to generate more work from them. You should also keep the name unique.
You may have to specify your template files too or rename them to end with .xml (depends on what server version you are using)
input should be a space separated list of input files (Which you somehow don't have) utopia1.zip is not an input file as you put it into the apps directory and it is bundled with the application version.

This will generate 1 Job with 1 Task (I hope) that is distributed to 1 host. If you want another just increment the wu_name to utopia1_test1 or change your input template parameters.

Is this some kind of bitcoin miner? It is a bit strange to run a program without commandline arguments or input files on more than one computer as the result should be the same on all of them.

boincadm@debian6:~/projects/test$ ./bin/create_work --appname utopia1 --wu_name wu_utopia1_01 --wu_template templates/utopia1_in --result_template templates/utopia1_out --min_quorum 1 --target_nresults 1 phoenix.cfg

<file_info>
    <name>wu_utopia1_03_0_0</name>
    <generated_locally/>
    <upload_when_present/>
    <max_nbytes>5000000</max_nbytes>
    <url>http://192.168.1.119/test_cgi/file_upload_handler</url>
</file_info>
<result>
    <file_ref>
        <file_name>wu_utopia1_03_0_0</file_name>
        <open_name>phoenix.log</open_name>
        <copy_file/>
    </file_ref>
</result>

<file_info><name>wu_utopia1_03_0_0</name>
    <nbytes>49.000000</nbytes>
    <max_nbytes>5000000.000000</max_nbytes>
    <md5_cksum>de180a83d17c8e6c8e750c6b3ae3b6be</md5_cksum>
    <upload_url>http://192.168.1.119/test_cgi/file_upload_handler</upload_url></file_info>

<core_client_version>7.0.46</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
à]& - exit code 195 (0xc3)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
wrapper: starting
16:33:28 (3724): unexpected tag in job.xml: zipfilename
16:33:28 (3724): wrapper: running ../../projects/192.168.1.119_test/phoenix.exe ()

[0 Khash/s] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [DISCONNECTED]
[04/18/2013 16:33:28] Welcome to Phoenix v2.0.0     
[0 Khash/s] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [DISCONNECTED]Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "phoenix.py", line 6, in <module>
  File "phoenix2\__init__.pyo", line 51, in main
  File "phoenix2\core\PhoenixCore.pyo", line 90, in start
  File "phoenix2\core\PhoenixCore.pyo", line 144, in discoverPlugins
WindowsError: [Error 3] M&#228;&#228;ritetty&#228; polkua ei l&#246;ydy: 'C:\\ProgramData\\BOINC\\projects\\192.168.1.119_test\\plugins/*.*'

                                                      app exit status: 0xff
16:33:29 (3724): called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>
]]>