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1) Message boards : BOINC client : Linux BOINC manager 6.10.17 does not detect any useable GPU...
Message 38770
Posted 4 Jul 2011 by Nick Pupkin
That proves there is not another client process running so you should be able to start the client with the run_boinc script. Maybe you could try that again...

1. uninstall BOINC with the package manager
2. reboot Linux to make sure the boinc daemon isn't running
3. install BOINC using the sh installer
4. in a terminal run the run_client script


For now i try to "repair" BOINC from repository. There was no boinc processes when i tried to run boinc from sh installer.


That proves you didn't uninstall BOINC using the package manager.

Its because i installed it again :)

With BOINC installed from repositories, try adding the boinc user to the video group...

/usr/sbin/usermod -G video -a boinc


Also, with BOINC installed from repositories, the GPU will not be recognized in BOINC if the boinc daemon starts before X server starts. Try restarting the boinc daemon after Linux boots...

/sbin/service boinc-client restart


I already tried it, still "no usable GPUs".

There is some SELinux alerts, maybe its because of them?

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/sealert", line 692, in <module>
run_as_dbus_service(username)
File "/usr/bin/sealert", line 112, in run_as_dbus_service
app = SEAlert(user, dbus_service.presentation_manager, watch_setroubleshootd=True)
File "/usr/bin/sealert", line 326, in __init__
from setroubleshoot.browser import BrowserApplet
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setroubleshoot/browser.py", line 46, in <module>
import report.io.GTKIO
ImportError: No module named GTKIO
2) Message boards : BOINC client : Linux BOINC manager 6.10.17 does not detect any useable GPU...
Message 38742
Posted 1 Jul 2011 by Nick Pupkin
Also, I think you need to use "boinc-user" or maybe "boinc_user" instead of "boinc" in the above xhost command. On Ubuntu the user's name is "boinc" but on Fedora it's "boinc-user" or maybe "boinc_user". Doing "ps aux | grep boinc" when boinc daemon is running will reveal the user's name.

"ps aux | grep boinc" reports
pupkin    3271  0.0  0.0   4432   764 pts/0    S+   09:49   0:00 grep --color=auto boinc

Also there is an entry in /etc/passwd
boinc:x:492:489:BOINC client account.:/var/lib/boinc:/sbin/nologin


The sh installer works fine here. Perhaps you left the boinc daemon running after you uninstalled BOINC? I can't see any other explanation for why BOINC would already be running, unless you ran the run_client script twice. Did you try "ps aux | grep boinc" to look for a boinc process?

I used "ps -e | grep boinc" and find nothing.
But these command have different output:
[pupkin@*** ~]$ ps -e | grep boinc
[pupkin@*** ~]$ ps aux | grep boinc
pupkin    3830  0.0  0.0   4432   760 pts/0    S+   09:57   0:00 grep --color=auto boinc

That's strange for me.

Hm... i started boinc client by putting
sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client start

in terminal and now these commands reports
[pupkin@*** ~]$ ps -e | grep boinc
 4228 ?        00:00:00 boinc_client
[pupkin@*** ~]$ ps aux | grep boinc
boinc     4228  0.1  0.2  31760 11000 ?        SN   10:03   0:00 /usr/bin/boinc_client --dir /var/lib/boinc
pupkin    4430  0.0  0.0   4432   764 pts/0    S+   10:05   0:00 grep --color=auto boinc


Maybe you need to reboot too.

If i reboot computer this entry in xhost disappear.
3) Message boards : BOINC client : Linux BOINC manager 6.10.17 does not detect any useable GPU...
Message 38730
Posted 30 Jun 2011 by Nick Pupkin
I tried "xhost fix" but something wrong with it:
[pupkin@*** ~]$ xhost local:boinc
non-network local connections being added to access control list
[pupkin@*** ~]$ xhost
access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect
LOCAL:
SI:localuser:pupkin

It says that "non-network local connections being added to access control list" but there is no new connections in xhost list. The same with root privileges. I will try to reinstall it.

I tried "xhost +SI:localuser:boinc" and it succesfully added boinc user to list. After that i restarted boinc-client, but manager still reports "No usable GPUs found".

Something wrong with sh installer too :\ run_client reports what boinc already running but there is no processes with "boinc" in the name.

Maybe i should install boinc from repository again and work without GPU :(
4) Message boards : BOINC client : Linux BOINC manager 6.10.17 does not detect any useable GPU...
Message 38725
Posted 30 Jun 2011 by Nick Pupkin
I have BOINC client version 6.10.58 installed, but it reports "No usable GPUs found":

Чт. 30 июня 2011 12:18:42 Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
Чт. 30 июня 2011 12:18:42 log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Чт. 30 июня 2011 12:18:42 Libraries: libcurl/7.21.3 NSS/3.12.10.0 zlib/1.2.5 libidn/1.19 libssh2/1.2.7
Чт. 30 июня 2011 12:18:42 Data directory: /var/lib/boinc
Чт. 30 июня 2011 12:18:42 Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
Чт. 30 июня 2011 12:18:42 Processor: 2.00 MB cache
Чт. 30 июня 2011 12:18:42 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 est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4
Чт. 30 июня 2011 12:18:42 OS: Linux: 2.6.38.8-32.fc15.i686.PAE
Чт. 30 июня 2011 12:18:42 Memory: 3.93 GB physical, 4.00 GB virtual
Чт. 30 июня 2011 12:18:42 Disk: 167.16 GB total, 149.20 GB free
Чт. 30 июня 2011 12:18:42 Local time is UTC +4 hours
Чт. 30 июня 2011 12:18:42 No usable GPUs found


Driver version is 275.09.07. Video card is Nvidia GTX460.
I tried to restart boinc-client in case it initialize before normal graphics subsystem initialisation, but there is no change in GPU detection.
Maybe its because of Fedora 15?


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