Posts by Roland Hughes

21) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC no longer requesting work. (Message 99713)
Posted 7 Jul 2020 by Roland Hughes
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I took them out as you requested but those have been there forever.
22) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC no longer requesting work. (Message 99712)
Posted 7 Jul 2020 by Roland Hughes
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It doesn't matter what the settings were all along. As has been said, GPUGrid is a GPU only project. You just don't set it to ask for CPU work and as long as you do it'll stay this way. GPUGrid is the project that's eligible to ask for CPU work, but it doesn't have CPU work.

By the way, posting pictures of things in BOINC Manager and the website is nice and all, but did you know you can copy all the messages from BOINC's Event Log and just post those instead of having to relate to posting an image of it? CTRL+SHIFT+E, Copy all. Or select part of the log, then Copy Selected if you'd rather not post a thousand lines.

Then you can also post bigger better logs with from the Event Log Options menu's (CTRL+SHIFT+F) debug flags such as rr_simulation, work_fetch_debug or cpu_sched_debug
If you do want to do logs with above flags, do those one by one, not all three at the same time as that'll give logs that are unreadable.


I took the screen shots because I didn't want to post a zillion line log file.

Here is the part of your explanation that makes absolutely no sense.

"GPUGrid is the project that's eligible to ask for CPU work, but it doesn't have CPU work. "

Every project should be eligible to ask for work. BOINC has zero tasks. None. Zip. Nadda. This really sounds like a scheduler bug. When there is no work for whatever project it deems "priority", the scheduler should be pulling work from the other projects. Even after deleting GPUGrid from this machine the scheduler was still refusing to load work.

Tue 07 Jul 2020 06:27:41 PM CDT | LHC@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by project.
Tue 07 Jul 2020 06:27:41 PM CDT | LHC@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (not highest priority project)
Tue 07 Jul 2020 06:27:46 PM CDT | LHC@home | Scheduler request completed
Tue 07 Jul 2020 06:35:55 PM CDT | LHC@home | update requested by user
Tue 07 Jul 2020 06:36:00 PM CDT | LHC@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Tue 07 Jul 2020 06:36:00 PM CDT | LHC@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (not highest priority project)
Tue 07 Jul 2020 06:36:02 PM CDT | LHC@home | Scheduler request completed
Tue 07 Jul 2020 06:36:25 PM CDT | GPUGRID | Resetting project
Tue 07 Jul 2020 06:36:25 PM CDT | GPUGRID | Detaching from project
Tue 07 Jul 2020 06:36:34 PM CDT | LHC@home | update requested by user
Tue 07 Jul 2020 06:36:37 PM CDT | LHC@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Tue 07 Jul 2020 06:36:37 PM CDT | LHC@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (not highest priority project)
Tue 07 Jul 2020 06:36:38 PM CDT | LHC@home | Scheduler request completed
23) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC no longer requesting work. (Message 99703)
Posted 7 Jul 2020 by Roland Hughes
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Those have been the settings all along.
24) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC no longer requesting work. (Message 99700)
Posted 7 Jul 2020 by Roland Hughes
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Well, it's been running on this machine for over a year. I do have other machines with Nvidia cards and drivers. This was all working and it just stopped. BOINC quit pulling down anything from any project.
25) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC no longer requesting work. (Message 99690)
Posted 7 Jul 2020 by Roland Hughes
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It seems BOINC can no longer do math. I'm completely out of work as the images show, but each Update attempt refuses to pull work. There is work, it just refuses to pull it.









26) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc fails to start after updates (Message 84279)
Posted 8 Jan 2018 by Roland Hughes
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AGILE is such a completely worthless software methodology. All it produces is perpetually broken (*&^)(*&)(*&.

KDE Neon 5.8.whatever 64-bit. Due to the latest INTEL CPU bugs getting much press and all of the claims the Linux world has fixes for them, I applied updates to all my machines. I actually have 2 running this configuration and they both have the same NVIDIA card with the same driver installed. The latest Linux-Lite is on the third machine running Boinc with NVidia.

My 6-core AMD no longer starts Boinc.

I did find this discussion https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=11230 but it doesn't seem to be the same problem.

This part of syslog may be Red Herring.

roland@roland-desktop:~$ tail /var/log/syslog                                                                                                                                      
Jan  8 06:59:25 roland-desktop ureadahead[373]: ureadahead:minirosetta_database/scoring/score_functions/rama/fd/all.ramaProb: Ignored relative path                                
Jan  8 06:59:25 roland-desktop ureadahead[373]: ureadahead:minirosetta_database/scoring/score_functions/rama/fd/prepro.ramaProb: Ignored relative path                             
Jan  8 06:59:25 roland-desktop ureadahead[373]: ureadahead:minirosetta_database/scoring/score_functions/rama/fd/prepro.ramaProb: Ignored relative path                             
Jan  8 06:59:25 roland-desktop ureadahead[373]: ureadahead:tracing_on: Ignored relative path                                                                                       
Jan  8 06:59:25 roland-desktop ureadahead[373]: ureadahead:events/fs/open_exec/enable: Ignored relative path                                                                       
Jan  8 06:59:25 roland-desktop ureadahead[373]: ureadahead:events/fs/do_sys_open/enable: Ignored relative path                                                                     
Jan  8 06:59:25 roland-desktop ureadahead[373]: Counted 6 CPUs                                                                                                                     
Jan  8 06:59:53 roland-desktop org.kde.kuiserver[1411]: kuiserver: adding job contact for address:  ":1.18"  objectPath:  "/DataEngine/applicationjobs/JobView_1"                  
Jan  8 06:59:53 roland-desktop org.kde.kuiserver[1411]: kuiserver: making async call of terminate for:  "/DataEngine/applicationjobs/JobView_1"                                    
Jan  8 06:59:53 roland-desktop org.kde.kuiserver[1411]: kuiserver: removing jobview from list, it finished


What strikes me as odd is trying to start from the command line.

roland@roland-desktop:~$ boinc
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---] cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.6.31 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.47.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.32 librtmp/2.3
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---] Data directory: /home/roland
execv: No such file or directory
[b]08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---] GPU detection failed. error code 512
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---] No usable GPUs found[/b]
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---] Creating new client state file
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---] Host name: roland-desktop
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---] Processor: 6 AuthenticAMD AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 1 Stepping 2]
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---] 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 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
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---] OS: Linux: 4.10.0-42-generic
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---] Memory: 23.50 GB physical, 23.96 GB virtual
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---] Disk: 416.41 GB total, 362.42 GB free
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---] Local time is UTC -6 hours
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---] No general preferences found - using defaults
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---] Preferences:
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---]    max memory usage when active: 12033.91MB
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---]    max memory usage when idle: 21661.05MB
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---]    max disk usage: 362.32GB
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---]    don't use GPU while active
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---]    suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
08-Jan-2018 07:22:28 [---]    (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
[b]dir_open: Could not open directory 'slots' from '/home/roland'.[/b]
08-Jan-2018 07:22:57 [---] GUI RPC bind to port 31416 failed: 98
08-Jan-2018 07:22:58 gstate.init() failed
Error Code: -180


Prior to the updates the GPU was always found. There were no errors reported with the update

Updates were applied on the same day to the quad-core I7 with the same NVidia card and driver. All is well. That is why I was intrigued by the ureadahead message in syslog since this appeared initially to be a Boinc only problem.

Any thoughts?
27) Message boards : GPUs : Ubuntu 15.10 and BOIC (Message 65252)
Posted 4 Nov 2015 by Roland Hughes
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Here is how things currently stand:

Ubuntu 15.10 64-bit Gnome:
* Both proprietary Nvidia driver and the opensource nvidia-modprobe can be easily installed. nvidia-modprobe is actually listed in the SoftwareCenter
* Once installed BOINC will identify CUDA cores and use them.
* Once installed Xorg and other "internal system components" will regularly popup dialogs about crashes and needs to file bug reports.
* Once nvidia-modprobe is installed onboard network port will take hours to establish a connection. I don't know exactly how long. It was mid afternoon and I left the office after an hour. When I came in some time after 2:30am it said it was established.
* Once nvidia-modprobe is installed plugging in a wireless usb stick will cause various "internal system error" and "crash" requests to file bug reports, but wireless will work while wired network connection is all discombobulated.

4MLinux 64-bit:
Would not boot to install. Complained about some CMenuText file (or some name like that) missing. It may simply not be configured correctly for Rufus to put on a thumb drive. I didn't take the time to burn a DVD to find out.

solusproject 64-bit:
Looked absolutely beautiful on old monitor. Did not have an option to install BOINC. Not certain if it had NVidia drivers. Both of these conditions seemed odd since this is supposed to be a YABU (Yet Another uBUntu). Perhaps there is a magic incantation one has to have to also look at Ubuntu repos.

Ubuntu 15.10 Ugly/Unity 64-bit
* Driver is easily installed, but nvidia-modprobe not listed in SoftwareCenter. You have to install Synaptic package manager in order to find nvidia-modprobe.
* GPU "seems" to be accessible.
* Have not noticed a significant number of bug report/crash dialogs so Ugly/Unity seems to have actually had "some" testing and Gnome not-so-much.
* Wired network connection still takes quite a few minutes to establish itself once nvidia-modprobe is installed. Prior to that the network connects instantaneously at boot as one expects.

Mint 17 is several days late now. I suspect they are trying to work around these Ubuntu problems.
28) Message boards : GPUs : Ubuntu 15.10 and BOIC (Message 65183)
Posted 1 Nov 2015 by Roland Hughes
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If you have Manager open it's Event log that you are looking for. Tools menu or ctrl+shift+e .

The same messages as well as older ones are in stdoutdae.txt .


Thank you for your response. Yes, I found it some time after I posted that question. None of the NVidia drivers appear to actually work in Ubuntu 15.10. If you use them Xorg has to keep sending crash reports back to Ubuntu developers. Not to mention BOINC cannot see the CUDA cores. Once the current work units complete I will try solusproject then 4MLinux on that machine to run BOINC. If neither of them work hopefully the new Mint will be out and work. Mint 17 used to work, had it on a few machines, but it was quit a trick to get the drivers to work in a manner which let the CUDA core be used by BOINC. I have high hopes for 4MLinux as it is supposed to be for multimedia.
29) Message boards : GPUs : Ubuntu 15.10 and BOIC (Message 65149)
Posted 30 Oct 2015 by Roland Hughes
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I just installed 64-bit Ubuntu 15.10 Gnome and set BOINC up on a machine. I installed the NVidia proprietary driver from the repo. I don't see any GPU usage happening. Regrettably, I don't remember the name of the log file or where it is to see if BOINC identified any GPUs, but I suspect it did not. This is a 384 CUDA core card. I remember it was a bit of a pain to get working under Mint 17 KDE a few years ago.

Any help?
30) Message boards : Questions and problems : Missing MSVCR100.dll (Message 64476)
Posted 27 Sep 2015 by Roland Hughes
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Well, I did some searching and found the missing dll answer here:

http://www.faqforge.com/windows/fix-the-program-cant-start-because-msvcr100-dll-is-missing-from-your-computer-error-on-windows/

It appears Boinc for Windows isn't properly packaged as it neither includes nor forces installation of required dependencies.

Still would like to know a good way to turn off the screen saver after installation though. Does BOINC only turn on, not off?
31) Message boards : Questions and problems : Missing MSVCR100.dll (Message 64475)
Posted 27 Sep 2015 by Roland Hughes
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I have two questions. First:

Installed Boinc screen saver on Windows 7 64-bit machine (sadly I have to have a Windows machine for a client, but only until year end then I will once again be Windows free!) This morning there were about a dozen windows and message boxes all saying: "Missing MSVCR100.dll" I did a quick search here and don't find it. I did not install boinc with virtualbox because I already had Oracle VirtualBox installed for client project. What is causing this error and how do I fix it?

Second:

I took the defaults during installation, but that turns on the screen saver. How does one turn that off after installation? The screen saver does not let your monitors power down so it wastes electricity.
32) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC WU on LinuxMint with NVIDIA GPU (Message 61285)
Posted 31 Mar 2015 by Roland Hughes
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On the SSD for this machine I did a fresh install of Mint17 KDE. I manually added the backport, installed nvidia 331 and nvidia-modprobe. For a couple of days BOINC has happily been using the CUDA.

The Cinnamon partition simply can't be fixed. I did file a bug report, but I'm pretty certain everyone involved will assume "the other guy" is going to fix it so, like the vast majority of OpenSource bug reports, it will be ignored until the release it is filed against becomes unsupported and the bug is auto-cancelled.
33) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC WU on LinuxMint with NVIDIA GPU (Message 61224)
Posted 26 Mar 2015 by Roland Hughes
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Well, it finally happened. After a few days of running great, I auto applied the latest updates as identified by the update manager. Suffered the NVidia Crash 3 times before 10am. Tried installing other version of drivers, even added edgers PPA again.

Get this!

Now no combination of drivers, with or without nvidia-modprobe will let the CUDA be recognized. Not only that, each time I boot I get the nag-o-gram about running without acceleration.

64-bit, the untested frontier, even with an LTS version.
34) Message boards : Promotion : Is BOINC dead? (Message 61204)
Posted 25 Mar 2015 by Roland Hughes
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I think this is one of the reasons IBM came up with/backed World Community Grid. Many research projects are of the "One and Done" nature. WCG provides a framework for those projects to rotate through without having to have users "find" them. A few months ago I looked at the WCG Web site and they listed projects which completed and were upcoming.

It is not that the model is dead, just so many projects are of a limited lifespan.
35) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC WU on LinuxMint with NVIDIA GPU (Message 61203)
Posted 25 Mar 2015 by Roland Hughes
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Gandalf,

Chakra is a beautiful to look at distro. Does not have a full implementation of BOINC.

RoboLinux would not install.

Linux-Lite, well, it's YAU (Yet Another Ubuntu) so I don't expect anything different. I did install it this morning and learned it is based on XFCE. Does _every_ developer working on XFCE have only one monitor? Why else would you consider it ok to force the left most monitor to be the main?

My 64-bit Mint17 Cinnamon instance makes it about 18 hours before the resource leakage kills the machine.

Just can't bring myself to pull 20Gig of RAM out of this box so it can run 32-bit.
36) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC WU on LinuxMint with NVIDIA GPU (Message 61102)
Posted 20 Mar 2015 by Roland Hughes
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@Gandalf,

Have you solved the problem? I have been having a rash of Nvidia crashes. In a few days when the disks show up I'm going to experiment with different distros. The YAU stuff doesn't seem to be testing 64-bit again.

Will be looking at:

Chakra http://chakraos.org/forum/

RoboLinux http://www.robolinux.org/about/

Linux Lite https://www.linuxliteos.com/

I really don't want to give up my RAM and drop back to 32-bit on this machine.
37) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC WU on LinuxMint with NVIDIA GPU (Message 61010)
Posted 17 Mar 2015 by Roland Hughes
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Gandalf,

If you want to be able to go away for a long weekend and believe your systems are happily processing WU, you probably need to drop them all back to 32-bit. I just had yet another NVidia crash this morning on my 64-bit machine.
38) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC WU on LinuxMint with NVIDIA GPU (Message 60964)
Posted 14 Mar 2015 by Roland Hughes
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You may actually have to install that Boinc_app_milkyway package you had before. I don't subscribe to this project so I don't know.

I do humbly suggest you open a question on the forum/support board for the milkyway project asking them about getting things working with NVidia under 64-bit Mint. You have other projects pulling down WUs and completing so not the issue is specific to that project.

Btw, my instructions were all for Mint 17 KDE. I make it a point not to run any of the Gicky-Gnasty-Gnome desktops unless I'm forced at gunpoint <Grin>
39) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC WU on LinuxMint with NVIDIA GPU (Message 60947)
Posted 14 Mar 2015 by Roland Hughes
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First NVidia crash some time during wee hours of morning on 64-bit machine.

In all fairness though, I had streamed 2 episodes of "Person of Interest" AND watched 2 DVDs without shutting down BOINC. Came out this morning and saw the tell-tale signs with a flashing caps lock and scroll lock on keyboard.

Reset button time.

With regular use it appears the 331 driver with the modprobe manages to run about a week before it gives up the ghost.
40) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC WU on LinuxMint with NVIDIA GPU (Message 60944)
Posted 14 Mar 2015 by Roland Hughes
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You CANNOT SKIP STEPS.

Every step from the beginning.

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Want to know the only steps different to make your current 64-bit system work?

After rebooting so nvidia-331 takes full effect.

Click on the little blue start button in the lower left corner.

In the little search bar at the top type "sour" and you should see an option for "Software Sources" appear. Click it.

Click the "Additional repositories" button on left.

Click the "Add a new repository" button at bottom.

paste in the following:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

Click "Ok"

Click the "update" or "refresh" button on upper right side of screen. (This will be greyed out with "No action required" until you actually add something and I don't remember what the text chagnes to.)

Exit out of all windows.

Click on the little blue start button in the lower left corner.

Applications->System->Synaptic Package Manager

Enter password when prompted.

After the index finishes updating type "modpro" in the "Quick filter" field

Mark nvidia-modprobe for installation, then click "Apply changes"

Exit everything and reboot

Open your BOINC manager.

Click Advanced->Event Log

Scroll to top of log (it always shows last entry when it opens) You should see something like:

Tue 10 Mar 2015 06:35:09 AM CDT | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 630 (driver version unknown, CUDA version 6.0, compute capability 3.5, 2047MB, 1973MB available, 692 GFLOPS peak)

near the beginning.

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You skipped past the very beginning of this and did not add the repository.


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