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21) Message boards : Questions and problems : Ubuntu Mate - Delete and Backspasce do not work.
Message 91207
Posted 24 Apr 2019 by Profilejay_e 		ARGH. Need a fifth-grader to get links from google drive.

Here are links to whoopsie screenshots - 11 of them.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J1y10WL5qzIuFM4QRku9suSDoyG0UsQI/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iNfIv3XO3bbYrgWEKBroG1yAERBfo6jo/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FeJ-VXRnXDOax4H8NwqCx7lZxjydEsn0/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QExbP1sn21f75pzLyNETP4_RtmoNk3Bu/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_l2ToY9AF-8i526zcKEgC5ORP8wDrPXj/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nZIxxan-hjs2U_jIaSyjoG1XLzII7-Ok/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14HQnRibnZjFG2X8Q_GKRofBI3YZEfsqz/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Aid6VPZLEgDJEhs3tmB4FwgtKx_SXQOT/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HkvakSEe0OyVqyLiHOq4TxP_BK5BfeaE/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IXNxN-r_sRmkUdBAgma3JJeldj_il-ue/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CuCuOHEyO2mpYLFeAELNI7Z6EnaXHsdW/view?usp=sharing


whew. took me what? 3 hours?
22) Message boards : Questions and problems : Ubuntu Mate - Delete and Backspasce do not work.
Message 91202
Posted 24 Apr 2019 by Profilejay_e 		Arghh. I forgot
"dropbox" is not what I am looking for.
What is the public folder (URL) on an Ubuntu server where I can upload (global permission) of screen shots of the Whoopsie report?
I could not copy the text from the report...
Thanks Jay
23) Message boards : Questions and problems : Ubuntu Mate - Delete and Backspasce do not work.
Message 91200
Posted 24 Apr 2019 by Profilejay_e 		Dave, Thanks for your reply!!!

The problem first started after a linux (Ubuntu Mate) update - so it started on the same version of BOINC
((boinc-manager and boinc-client).

I neglected to mention that the left and right arrow (cursor move_ and tab did not work either.

I had some more updates today and I retested - same visible results - but the boint-manager crashed.

Only one entry in syslog:
Apr 24 13:04:57 pc-14 kernel: [ 1324.751556] traps: boincmgr[2518] trap int3 ip:7fa9593e9ea1 sp:7fff92a90350 error:0 in libglib-2.0.so.0.5600.4[7fa959398000+114000]

"Whoopsie" made a detailed report. I'll try to include screenshots in a dropbox, or... soon

I'll finish current WU, and try newer BOIC and Ubuntu Mate. (I was on a long-trm support version.) [edited]

Should I look into a problem report? Or, do you think one already exists?
OBTW, only 1 GPU and 3 of 8 CPU were active. CPU temp about 50C.

Thanks again!!
Jay

Thanks again, Jay
24) Message boards : Questions and problems : Ubuntu Mate - Delete and Backspasce do not work.
Message 91176
Posted 23 Apr 2019 by Profilejay_e 		UPDATE.....

I have an older PC (Same version of Linux) that I have not updated in a while, so I tried to recreate the problem, before and after updates.
Before updates: backspace and delete work.
After Updates: backspace and delete work.

BUT this computer is a '386' architecture.

from Boinc Log at startup:
Tue 23 Apr 2019 12:30:58 PM EDT |  | Starting BOINC client version 7.9.3 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
Tue 23 Apr 2019 12:30:58 PM EDT |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Tue 23 Apr 2019 12:30:58 PM EDT |  | Libraries: libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.0g zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Tue 23 Apr 2019 12:30:58 PM EDT |  | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Tue 23 Apr 2019 12:30:58 PM EDT |  | No usable GPUs found
Tue 23 Apr 2019 12:30:58 PM EDT |  | [libc detection] gathered: 2.27, Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1
Tue 23 Apr 2019 12:30:58 PM EDT |  | Host name: pc-mini
Tue 23 Apr 2019 12:30:58 PM EDT |  | Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz [Family 6 Model 28 Stepping 2]
Tue 23 Apr 2019 12:30:58 PM EDT |  | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts cpuid aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm dtherm
Tue 23 Apr 2019 12:30:58 PM EDT |  | OS: Linux Ubuntu: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS [4.15.0-47-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]
Tue 23 Apr 2019 12:30:58 PM EDT |  | Memory: 483.08 MB physical, 996.00 MB virtual
Tue 23 Apr 2019 12:30:58 PM EDT |  | Disk: 5.64 GB total, 850.02 MB free

Perplexing..
Thanks in advance!!!!!!

Jay
25) Message boards : Questions and problems : Ubuntu Mate - Delete and Backspasce do not work.
Message 91165
Posted 22 Apr 2019 by Profilejay_e 		BOINC client version 7.9.3 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
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
[libc detection] gathered: 2.27, Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1
Processor: 8 AuthenticAMD AMD FX(tm)-8150 Eight-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 1 Stepping 2]
OS: Linux Ubuntu: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS [4.15.0-48-generic ((Bionic Beaver)) |libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]

I went to Options -> computing preferences, clicked into the Store additional work for ___ days.
Can add numerics
Delete and backspace do not work, But can highlight and type over.

Running WCG and Einstein. same problem.
Ubuntu says I have BOINC package installed: 7.9.3+dfsg-5ubuntu2

several months ago, could not use "Enter" key to update field. Had to use "save" key.
(Might be related.)

Widgets installed:
i libqt5widgets5 - Qt 5 widgets module
i python3-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets - Python 3 GTK+ 3 widgets to run an aptdaemon client

ibqt5widgets5 i 5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu2 bionic-updates
python3-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets i 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu19 bionic

Ideas? Suggestions?
Already reported?

Thanks in advance!!!!

Jay
26) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 88146
Posted 21 Sep 2018 by Profilejay_e 		The statistics update will finish in about 40 minutes 7 seconds.
that will be about 12:23 EDT
(yay)

:-)


WCG is back up
https://mobile.twitter.com/WCGrid/status/1043148010916642816

It seems to be an unannounced/unexpected outage. Hopefully the servers will be up before the end of the day (and before the week-end)...
27) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 88138
Posted 21 Sep 2018 by Profilejay_e 		www.worldcommunitygrid.org -- is it down. ETA??


Thanks, Jay
28) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 87116
Posted 15 Jul 2018 by Profilejay_e 		Thanks, PDW!
29) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 87115
Posted 15 Jul 2018 by Profilejay_e 		csg back up
30) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 87099
Posted 13 Jul 2018 by Profilejay_e 		No response from Citizen Science Grid - either 12 July 2018 nor 13 July 2018.

(Unable to send WU completion data. Unable to read project web page (https://csgrid.org/csg/)
Unable to PING csgrid.org (134.129.182.228) )


A ping to a North Dakota DNS server does work. (PING 134.129.183.73 - education.und.edu Fargo, North Dakota, United States (US)

Any other news?

Thanks,
Jay
31) Message boards : Questions and problems : disk Graph - cusor displays wrong section
Message 87027
Posted 11 Jul 2018 by Profilejay_e 		update:
Nothing suspicious in any of /var/logs.
No effect after reboot

Plan: after CSG WU finished, reset an remove project and see if problem persists.

Other suggestions?
32) Message boards : Questions and problems : disk Graph - cusor displays wrong section
Message 86996
Posted 10 Jul 2018 by Profilejay_e 		Greetings!
I have BOINC manager 7.8.3 (x64)
wxWidgets Version3.03

Ubuntu Mate Release 17.10
Kernel Linux 4.13.0-46-generic x86_64
11.6 Gib Memory
Boinc lib in a separate partition for /var -, Used:5.8 Gib, 128 GiB available
WCG is doing maintenance today - so I loaded Rosetta - it take disk!

Problem:
Left side of disk window - Total Disk Usage shows wrong info when cursor in a each region
..
Cursor in: other programs: Pop Up says: Free - Not available to boinc.
Cursor in:Free, Not available to boinc Pop Up says: Free - Not available to boinc
Cursor in: Free- Available to BOINC Pop Up says: Free- Available to BOINC
Cursor in: Used By BOINC Pop Up says: Used by other programs

Don't recall seeing this before.
FYI- Disk usage by BOINC Projects:
    - Citizen Science Grid - 170 MB
    - Einstein@Home       - 21.01 MB
    - Rosetta@Home         - 3.59 GB
    - World Community Grid - 157.87 MB


Any one else seeing this??

Thanks, Jay
33) Message boards : Projects : How to avoid CPU based projects to cannibalise GPU based projects ?
Message 84666
Posted 5 Feb 2018 by Profilejay_e 		Thanks for the discussion..
I have several rambling questions:
a)
Even though I set up my preferences to allow GPU, it has not happened.
Is there a way to check server status to see which sub-projects of LHC@home use the GPU?

b) I have been running Einstein@Home for years - doing GPU work.
Do I have to allow No Work from Einstein to let the lhc@home work to get to the GPU?
Or, can LHC@Home "share" my queue of GPU WUs?

c) Einstein@home needed a CPU "free" to handle getiing data to/from the GPU.
How is this done with the LHC@Home work?

d) I noticed that lhc@home does not honor the network limits that are made available by the BOINC preferences.
Is there a way to do this?
I'm in the US and use DSL for both internet and cell-phone wifi.
LHC@Home WUs kick me off my phone. :-(
(Yes, I can set Quality of service on the cell phone MAC address, but that is a pain in the .... )

e) I was running the LHCb task and was set up to run 5 tasks.
AS the memory utilization crept up, Boinc held back a WCG task with an error messge that said "Not enough memory."
I have 11.6 GiB of memory and only (hah-hah) 79% was in use.
I dropped LHC@Home down to 4 tasks to deal with this.
Anyone care to shed light of how available memory is calculated and required?


f) Sometimes, LHC@Home wouldn't run because BOINC did not see Virtualbox.
I got around this by:
1) suspending all BOINC activity
2) Exiting BOINC Manager
3) a group of commands:
sudo service  --status-all

sudo service boinc-client stop
sudo service virtualbox stop
sudo service virtualbox start
sudo service boinc-client start

Restarting BOINC

My question is:
Is there a good reason to let VB autostart - even when I am not running BOINC???
( or Days when I disable LHC@home.)


g) [soapbox]
Running 4 LHC@home CPU tasks did NOT use much cpu at all - in comparison to other projects. :-(
So why can't CERN write tasks that run in a BOINC environment that don't use VirtualBox?
[/soapbox]

I have an 8 kernel AMD64 that is running Ubuntu Mate 17.10.

Please share your opinions and experiences.
T H A N K Y O U,
Jay

-- edit -- fix typos and clarify MAC address. Add (obvious) step of restarting BOINC.
34) Message boards : The Lounge : Taking leave of absence
Message 84665
Posted 5 Feb 2018 by Profilejay_e 		Best wishes to the both of you!

I had to make some diet changes for similar reasons.
That is harder than the stay in the hospital because I have to rely on my own initiative.

It so hard for me to pass up a juicy hamberger.
Enough of me.

How is the recovery coming?
Jay
35) Message boards : Questions and problems : long running MCM1 tasks on BOINC
Message 84081
Posted 29 Dec 2017 by Profilejay_e 		Also, Check settings for :
% of processors used
% of time processors used.

When I rebuild a disk, I sometimes forget about these.
(( MCM was the World Community Grid project? They can take longer times than the Ebola and Zika. ))
36) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problems installing Bonic on Ubantu
Message 84080
Posted 29 Dec 2017 by Profilejay_e 		Greetings.

To the original question about aptitude...

I wasn't found on the man page because it wasn't installed yet.
There are different insatall packages. I like 'aptitude ' myself, so:
sudo apt-get install aptitude

should install aptitude

Note: uing a <tab> will expand the name of a command, so: apti<tab>
should expand to aptitude.

sudo aptitude install boinc will install
- boinc manager
- boinc client

then, once boinc is running, you can install whatever projects you want.
[start soapbox]
Try World Community Grid.
- it is a project of subprojects that crunch for cures for diseases.
[end soapbox]

Enjoy!
Jay


There is NO reason to have to get Boinc sources and compile them.
Using aptitude will ensure that the proper versions of all libraries and also installed and linked in.

the ubuntu forums have a lot more details there....
37) Message boards : GPUs : which PPA for Ubuntu Mesa openCL for Raden 7750???
Message 78437
Posted 31 May 2017 by Profilejay_e 		Einstein WU completed and waiting on Validation

Yay

https://einsteinathome.org/task/651051489

Stderr output

<core_client_version>7.6.33</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<stderr_txt>
1e-15 f1dot_start: -1e-13 f1dot_band: 1e-13
% Filling array of photon pairs
etc., etc. etc.

.
% Time spent on semicoherent stage: 4653.1636s
% Writing semicoherent output file.

% Following up candidate number: 1
% Refining in S
% Following-up in P
Error in OpenCL context: Shader Stats: SGPRS: 11 VGPRS: 5 Code Size: 36374 LDS: 0 Scratch: 0 Max Waves: 10 Spilled SGPRs: 0 Spilled VGPRs: 0 PrivMem VGPRs: 0

% Following up candidate number: 2
% Refining in S
% Following-up in P

% Following up candidate number: 3
% Refining in S
% Following-up in P

% Following up candidate number: 4
% Refining in S
% Following-up in P

% Following up candidate number: 5
% Refining in S
% Following-up in P

% Following up candidate number: 6
% Refining in S
% Following-up in P

% Following up candidate number: 7
% Refining in S
% Following-up in P
% C 8 1262

% Following up candidate number: 8
% Refining in S
% Following-up in P

% Following up candidate number: 9
% Refining in S
% Following-up in P

% Following up candidate number: 10
% Refining in S
% Following-up in P
% Writing follow-up output file.
FPU status flags:
14:35:02 (4835): [normal]: done. calling boinc_finish(0).
14:35:02 (4835): called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>



so far, so good.
will see if seti is available.
38) Message boards : GPUs : which PPA for Ubuntu Mesa openCL for Raden 7750???
Message 78435
Posted 31 May 2017 by Profilejay_e 		Greetings,
A bit of a recap,
I have two machines - both running Ubuntu Mate - Both with Radeon 7750.
One is running Ubuntu Mate 16.10 - which is nether the LTS release nor the Latest release (it is between them).
I can crunch Einstien and SETI GPU WU on it.- and have been for several months.

So , I wanted to upgrade the other machine, runng fglrx drivers with Ubuntu 14.something.
But, I could not find the correct driver - paired with a release for it.
It *appears* that the AMDGPU-Pro driver does crunch on any of the 3 latest Ubuntu releases.
I did a hit and miss test of 16.04, 16.10, and 17.04 - all failed.
So I started over with a better test plan.
(I am not a tester. I should have started with a better trail of results - so I started over, again.)

In trial and error fashion, for each release, I am trying the drivers released by Ubuntu and PPAs:
- The AMDGPU-pro driver ( a script-built set of packages.)
-The mesa-opencl-icd package
- the x-swat PPA
-The stable Padoka Stable Mesa PPA -- https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/pkppa/
- The unstale (lates release) Padoka PPA -- https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa
- Other PPAs as -- https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers

(Note: Dias and Oibaf have worked together putting releases into Launchpad.)
The last post in this thread was a recap that works - but I didn't save the info on which PPA it was.
That release was installed when 16.10 WAS the latest release. It no longer is, and Most PPAs only support the LTS and the latest.
So I am now testing Ubuntu Mate 16.10 with the various drivers available.
(Looking at the output of clinfo shows differences; but I don't know which are significant to crunch a WU.
Probably depends on the WU.)

The results so far on this release: (I'm leaving out the details today.)
- Tuesday May 30 2017 Mesa opencl 'out-of-the box' : Fails
- mesa-opencl-icd mesa-common-dev libopencl-2.1-1 ocl-icd-libopencl1 : Fails
- try the Stable -- https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/pkppa : Fails
- try Updated and Optimized Open Graphics Drivers -- https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers/
(sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers)

It has been running for an hour and has 20 minutes to go on an Einstein GPU WU.
I'll do another posting when there is one successful completion. (yay!)
39) Message boards : GPUs : which PPA for Ubuntu Mesa openCL for Raden 7750???
Message 78397
Posted 30 May 2017 by Profilejay_e 		Today, Tuesday is The SETI maintenance day. So, no SET WU to test.
will clean disk and start afresh with Ububtu 16.10.
I do have a 16.10 working on another machine with a 7750.
I'll edit this post and add what it says.

-->>> THIS DRIVER WORKS!!! <<<---

boinc says: 
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:16 AM EDT |  | Starting BOINC client version 7.6.33 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:16 AM EDT |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:16 AM EDT |  | Libraries: libcurl/7.50.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.33 librtmp/2.3
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:16 AM EDT |  | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:17 AM EDT |  | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD CAPE VERDE (DRM 2.46.0 / 4.8.0-53-generic, LLVM 4.0.1) (driver version 17.2.0-devel, device version OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 17.2.0-devel, 2048MB, 2048MB available, 512 GFLOPS peak)
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:17 AM EDT |  | Host name: pc-14-large
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:17 AM EDT |  | Processor: 8 AuthenticAMD AMD FX(tm)-8150 Eight-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 1 Stepping 2]
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:17 AM EDT |  | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 nodeid_msr topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb cpb hw_pstate vmmcall arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:17 AM EDT |  | OS: Linux: 4.8.0-53-generic
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:17 AM EDT |  | Memory: 11.64 GB physical, 48.83 GB virtual
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:17 AM EDT |  | Disk: 134.57 GB total, 126.32 GB free
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:17 AM EDT |  | Local time is UTC -4 hours
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:17 AM EDT |  | Config: GUI RPCs allowed from:
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:17 AM EDT | Einstein@Home | URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 12201025; resource share 5
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:17 AM EDT | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 8268458; resource share 5
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:17 AM EDT | World Community Grid | URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 3197561; resource share 95
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:17 AM EDT | World Community Grid | General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 26-May-2017 05:16:17)
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:17 AM EDT | World Community Grid | Host location: none
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:17 AM EDT | World Community Grid | General prefs: using your defaults
Tue 30 May 2017 09:51:17 AM EDT |  | Preferences:


Einstein says:

Task 650725687
Name:
LATeah0030L_908.0_0_0.0_8798805_1
Workunit ID:
298339438
Created:
30 May 2017 16:10:31 GMT
Sent:
30 May 2017 16:34:21 GMT
Report deadline:
13 Jun 2017 16:34:21 GMT
Received:
30 May 2017 18:54:14 GMT
Server state:
Over
Outcome:
Success
Client state:
Done
Exit status:
0 (0x00000000)
Computer:
12201025
Run time (sec):
4,756.65
CPU time (sec):
188.76
Peak working set size (MB):
284.64
Peak swap size (MB):
857.83
Peak disk usage (MB):
0.33
Validation state:
Initial
Claimed credit:
6.73
Granted credit:
0.00
Application:
Gamma-ray pulsar binary search #1 on GPUs v1.18 (FGRPopencl1K-ati)
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu


clinfo says:
Number of platforms                               1
  Platform Name                                   Clover
  Platform Vendor                                 Mesa
  Platform Version                                OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 17.2.0-devel
  Platform Profile                                FULL_PROFILE
  Platform Extensions                             cl_khr_icd
  Platform Extensions function suffix             MESA

  Platform Name                                   Clover
Number of devices                                 1
  Device Name                                     AMD CAPE VERDE (DRM 2.46.0 / 4.8.0-53-generic, LLVM 4.0.1)
  Device Vendor                                   AMD
  Device Vendor ID                                0x1002
  Device Version                                  OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 17.2.0-devel
  Driver Version                                  17.2.0-devel
  Device OpenCL C Version                         OpenCL C 1.1 
  Device Type                                     GPU
  Device Profile                                  FULL_PROFILE
  Max compute units                               8
  Max clock frequency                             800MHz
  Max work item dimensions                        3
  Max work item sizes                             256x256x256
  Max work group size                             256
  Preferred work group size multiple              64
  Preferred / native vector sizes                 
    char                                                16 / 16      
    short                                                8 / 8       
    int                                                  4 / 4       
    long                                                 2 / 2       
    half                                                 0 / 0        (n/a)
    float                                                4 / 4       
    double                                               2 / 2        (cl_khr_fp64)
  Half-precision Floating-point support           (n/a)
  Single-precision Floating-point support         (core)
    Denormals                                     No
    Infinity and NANs                             Yes
    Round to nearest                              Yes
    Round to zero                                 No
    Round to infinity                             No
    IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add               No
    Support is emulated in software               No
    Correctly-rounded divide and sqrt operations  No
  Double-precision Floating-point support         (cl_khr_fp64)
    Denormals                                     Yes
    Infinity and NANs                             Yes
    Round to nearest                              Yes
    Round to zero                                 Yes
    Round to infinity                             Yes
    IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add               Yes
    Support is emulated in software               No
    Correctly-rounded divide and sqrt operations  No
  Address bits                                    64, Little-Endian
  Global memory size                              2147483648 (2GiB)
  Error Correction support                        No
  Max memory allocation                           1503238553 (1.4GiB)
  Unified memory for Host and Device              Yes
  Minimum alignment for any data type             128 bytes
  Alignment of base address                       1024 bits (128 bytes)
  Global Memory cache type                        None
  Image support                                   No
  Local memory type                               Local
  Local memory size                               32768 (32KiB)
  Max constant buffer size                        1503238553 (1.4GiB)
  Max number of constant args                     16
  Max size of kernel argument                     1024
  Queue properties                                
    Out-of-order execution                        No
    Profiling                                     Yes
  Profiling timer resolution                      0ns
  Execution capabilities                          
    Run OpenCL kernels                            Yes
    Run native kernels                            No
  Device Available                                Yes
  Compiler Available                              Yes
  Device Extensions                               cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_fp64

NULL platform behavior
  clGetPlatformInfo(NULL, CL_PLATFORM_NAME, ...)  Clover
  clGetDeviceIDs(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ALL, ...)   Success [MESA]
  clCreateContext(NULL, ...) [default]            Success [MESA]
  clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU)  No devices found in platform
  clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU)  Success (1)
    Platform Name                                 Clover
    Device Name                                   AMD CAPE VERDE (DRM 2.46.0 / 4.8.0-53-generic, LLVM 4.0.1)
  clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ACCELERATOR)  No devices found in platform
  clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CUSTOM)  No devices found in platform
  clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ALL)  Success (1)
    Platform Name                                 Clover
    Device Name                                   AMD CAPE VERDE (DRM 2.46.0 / 4.8.0-53-generic, LLVM 4.0.1)

ICD loader properties
  ICD loader Name                                 OpenCL ICD Loader
  ICD loader Vendor                               OCL Icd free software
  ICD loader Version                              2.2.9
  ICD loader Profile                              OpenCL 2.1
40) Message boards : GPUs : which PPA for Ubuntu Mesa openCL for Raden 7750???
Message 78366
Posted 30 May 2017 by Profilejay_e 		On Ubuntu, try another PPA - get a different error

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/updates
see https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/ubuntu/updates

skip

retry on 16.04
working ---- Padoka PPA
https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa
-
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:paulo-miguel-dias/mesa
sudo apt-get update


jay@pc-10:~$ sudo aptitude update
Get: 1 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ InRelease
Ign file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ InRelease
Get: 2 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ Release [814 B]
Get: 3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ Release [814 B]
Get: 4 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ Release.gpg
Ign file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ Release.gpg
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get: 5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Get: 6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Get: 7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
Get: 8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]
Get: 9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [24.5 kB]
Get: 10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [24.5 kB]
Get: 11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [10.4 kB]


Current status: 32 (+32) upgradable, 283 (+181) new.



time sudo aptitude upgrade
Resolving dependencies...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libclang-common-4.0-dev{a} libllvm4.0{a} libllvm5.0{a} xserver-xorg-video-mach64{a} xserver-xorg-video-r128{a}
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libclang-common-3.7-dev{u} libllvm3.7{u}
The following packages will be upgraded:
libclc-amdgcn libclc-dev libclc-r600 libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-dev libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libegl1-mesa libegl1-mesa-drivers
libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libgles2-mesa libva-drm1 libva-x11-1 libva1 libwayland-client0
libwayland-cursor0 libwayland-egl1-mesa libwayland-server0 libxatracker2 mesa-common-dev mesa-opencl-icd xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu
xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-radeon
32 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 52.4 MB of archives. After unpacking 111 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y


list
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Get: 1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 xserver-xorg-video-r128 amd64 6.10.0-1build2 [47.9 kB]
Get: 2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 xserver-xorg-video-mach64 amd64 6.9.5-1build2 [58.2 kB]
Get: 3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libllvm4.0 amd64 1:4.0~svn291444-0~x~padoka0 [12.2 MB]
Get: 4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libclang-common-4.0-dev amd64 1:4.0~svn291444-0~x~padoka0 [2,918 kB]         
Get: 5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libclc-amdgcn all 0.2.0+git20170302.0107.17648cd~x~padoka0 [2,438 kB]        
Get: 6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libclc-r600 all 0.2.0+git20170302.0107.17648cd~x~padoka0 [604 kB]            
Get: 7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libclc-dev all 0.2.0+git20170302.0107.17648cd~x~padoka0 [24.8 kB]            
Get: 8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libdrm-dev amd64 2.4.81+git1705261543.81312f3~x~padoka0 [233 kB]             
Get: 9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libdrm2 amd64 2.4.81+git1705261543.81312f3~x~padoka0 [37.3 kB]               
Get: 10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libdrm-intel1 amd64 2.4.81+git1705261543.81312f3~x~padoka0 [68.0 kB]        
Get: 11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libdrm-radeon1 amd64 2.4.81+git1705261543.81312f3~x~padoka0 [29.7 kB]       
Get: 12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libdrm-nouveau2 amd64 2.4.81+git1705261543.81312f3~x~padoka0 [24.5 kB]      
Get: 13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libdrm-amdgpu1 amd64 2.4.81+git1705261543.81312f3~x~padoka0 [26.2 kB]       
Get: 14 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libwayland-egl1-mesa amd64 1:17.2~git170526160800.a958a30~x~padoka0 [44.9 kB]
Get: 15 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libwayland-client0 amd64 1.13.0+git201705130017.0eefe99~x~padoka0 [24.4 kB] 
Get: 16 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libwayland-server0 amd64 1.13.0+git201705130017.0eefe99~x~padoka0 [30.4 kB] 
Get: 17 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libllvm5.0 amd64 1:5.0~svn303494-0~x~padoka0 [13.2 MB]                      
Get: 18 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 mesa-opencl-icd amd64 1:17.2~git170526160800.a958a30~x~padoka0 [7,743 kB]   
Get: 19 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libgl1-mesa-dev amd64 1:17.2~git170526160800.a958a30~x~padoka0 [43.6 kB]    
Get: 20 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 mesa-common-dev amd64 1:17.2~git170526160800.a958a30~x~padoka0 [548 kB]     
Get: 21 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libgl1-mesa-glx amd64 1:17.2~git170526160800.a958a30~x~padoka0 [1,281 kB]   
Get: 22 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libgles2-mesa amd64 1:17.2~git170526160800.a958a30~x~padoka0 [52.8 kB]      
Get: 23 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libglapi-mesa amd64 1:17.2~git170526160800.a958a30~x~padoka0 [61.3 kB]      
Get: 24 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libegl1-mesa amd64 1:17.2~git170526160800.a958a30~x~padoka0 [115 kB]        
Get: 25 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libgl1-mesa-dri amd64 1:17.2~git170526160800.a958a30~x~padoka0 [7,158 kB]   
Get: 26 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libgbm1 amd64 1:17.2~git170526160800.a958a30~x~padoka0 [62.6 kB]            
Get: 27 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libegl1-mesa-drivers amd64 1:17.2~git170526160800.a958a30~x~padoka0 [42.9 kB]
Get: 28 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libva-drm1 amd64 1.8.3+git201705261546-0~x~padoka0 [14.6 kB]                
Get: 29 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libva1 amd64 1.8.3+git201705261546-0~x~padoka0 [58.2 kB]                    
Get: 30 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libva-x11-1 amd64 1.8.3+git201705261546-0~x~padoka0 [19.3 kB]               
Get: 31 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libwayland-cursor0 amd64 1.13.0+git201705130017.0eefe99~x~padoka0 [13.2 kB] 
Get: 32 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libxatracker2 amd64 1:17.2~git170526160800.a958a30~x~padoka0 [1,203 kB]     
Get: 33 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu amd64 1.3.99+git1705261614.000e5ea~x~padoka0 [54.4 kB]
Get: 34 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 xserver-xorg-video-radeon amd64 1:7.9.99+git1705261616.d80d01a~x~padoka0 [164 kB]
Get: 35 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 xserver-xorg-video-ati amd64 1:7.9.99+git1705261616.d80d01a~x~padoka0 [27.0 kB]
Get: 36 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 xserver-xorg-video-intel amd64 2:2.99.917+git1704220121.c72bb27~x~padoka0 [1,589 kB]
Get: 37 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/mesa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 xserver-xorg-video-nouveau amd64 1:1.0.15+git1704222053.a7c190e~x~padoka0 [122 kB]
Fetched 52.4 MB in 1min 51s (472 kB/s)


etc


Current status: 0 (-32) upgradable.

real 2m59.823s
user 0m26.228s
sys 0m6.440s

C

reboot and test


Tue 30 May 2017 02:54:33 AM EDT |  | Starting BOINC client version 7.6.31 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Tue 30 May 2017 02:54:33 AM EDT |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Tue 30 May 2017 02:54:33 AM EDT |  | Libraries: libcurl/7.47.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.32 librtmp/2.3
Tue 30 May 2017 02:54:33 AM EDT |  | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Tue 30 May 2017 02:54:33 AM EDT |  | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD CAPE VERDE (DRM 2.43.0 / 4.4.0-78-generic, LLVM 5.0.0) (driver version 17.2.0-devel - padoka PPA, device version OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 17.2.0-devel - padoka PPA, 2048MB, 2048MB available, 512 GFLOPS peak)
Tue 30 May 2017 02:54:33 AM EDT |  | Host name: pc-10
Tue 30 May 2017 02:54:33 AM EDT |  | Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor [Family 16 Model 2 Stepping 3]
Tue 30 May 2017 02:54:33 AM EDT |  | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs hw_pstate vmmcall npt lbrv svm_lock
Tue 30 May 2017 02:54:33 AM EDT |  | OS: Linux: 4.4.0-78-generic
Tue 30 May 2017 02:54:33 AM EDT |  | Memory: 5.83 GB physical, 9.77 GB virtual
Tue 30 May 2017 02:54:33 AM EDT |  | Disk: 57.67 GB total, 48.71 GB free
Tue 30 May 2017 02:54:33 AM EDT |  | Local time is UTC -4 hours


get einstein
errors out in two seconds, BUT different error. Getting closer??

https://einsteinathome.org/host/12533566/tasks
https://einsteinathome.org/task/650574264
Stderr output

<core_client_version>7.6.31</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
process exited with code 1 (0x1, -255)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
03:00:06 (3893): [normal]: This Einstein@home App was built at: Jan 16 2017 08:09:16

03:00:06 (3893): [normal]: Start of BOINC application '../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/hsgamma_FGRPB1G_1.18_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__FGRPopencl1K-ati'.
03:00:06 (3893): [debug]: 1e+16 fp, 2.3e+09 fp/s, 4622774 s, 1284h06m13s66
command line: ../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/hsgamma_FGRPB1G_1.18_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__FGRPopencl1K-ati --inputfile ../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/LATeah0030L.dat --alpha 4.42281478648 --delta -0.0345027837249 --skyRadius 2.152570e-06 --ldiBins 15 --f0start 876.0 --f0Band 8.0 --firstSkyPoint 0 --numSkyPoints 1 --f1dot -1e-13 --f1dotBand 1e-13 --df1dot 3.344368011e-15 --ephemdir ../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/JPLEPH --Tcoh 2097152.0 --toplist 10 --cohFollow 10 --numCells 1 --useWeights 1 --Srefinement 1 --CohSkyRef 1 --cohfullskybox 1 --mmfu 0.1 --reftime 56100 --model 0 --f0orbit 0.005 --mismatch 0.1 --demodbinary 1 --BinaryPointFile ../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/templates_LATeah0030L_0884_4619655.dat --debug 1 --device 0 -o LATeah0030L_884.0_0_0.0_4619655_1_0.out
output files: 'LATeah0030L_884.0_0_0.0_4619655_1_0.out' '../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/LATeah0030L_884.0_0_0.0_4619655_1_0' 'LATeah0030L_884.0_0_0.0_4619655_1_0.out.cohfu' '../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/LATeah0030L_884.0_0_0.0_4619655_1_1'
03:00:06 (3893): [debug]: Flags: X64 SSE SSE2 GNUC X86 GNUX86
03:00:06 (3893): [debug]: glibc version/release: 2.23/stable
03:00:06 (3893): [debug]: Set up communication with graphics process.
boinc_get_opencl_ids returned [0x2de7278 , 0x7f852b992f80] 
Using OpenCL platform provided by: Mesa
Using OpenCL device "AMD CAPE VERDE (DRM 2.43.0 / 4.4.0-78-generic, LLVM 5.0.0)" by: AMD
Max allocation limit: 1503238553
Global mem size: 2147483648
OpenCL device has FP64 support
Invalid bitcast
  %21 = bitcast %union.anon addrspace(4)* %6 to i8*
Invalid bitcast
  %22 = bitcast %union.anon addrspace(4)* %4 to i8*
Invalid bitcast
  %23 = bitcast %union.anon addrspace(4)* %2 to i8*
LLVM ERROR: Broken function found, compilation aborted!

</stderr_txt>


Note above:
vice version OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 17.2.0-devel - padoka PPA,
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