Posts by Juha

21) Message boards : Questions and problems : Linux Mint: BOINC Manager crashes, won't run. (Message 89081)
Posted 30 Nov 2018 by Juha
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If you have a file with a name something like /home/cjspizz/BOINC Manager-cjspizz and it only contains a number (process ID) then remove the file and try again.
22) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinc-client.service: Changing to the requested working directory failed: No such file or directory (Message 89080)
Posted 30 Nov 2018 by Juha
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systemd is probably limiting services' access to /home. Usually services have no business poking files there. I don't remember off hand what settings change that. I suggest you read systemd manual pages about services and unit files.
23) Message boards : Questions and problems : Not enought space for LHC (Message 88551)
Posted 20 Oct 2018 by Juha
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In conclusion I want the rest of projects and BOINC on SSD (it's new -- no bad sectors) and LHC on HDD.


Putting one project on this disk and another project on that disk is something that can't really be done.
24) Message boards : Questions and problems : How to solve libcurl3 dependency in Boinc Manager (Message 88531)
Posted 19 Oct 2018 by Juha
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Keith forgot to mention one little teeny tiny crucial detail. The BOINC he's running is built by Tbar@Seti-forums, not the one from distro repo. I think Tbar's version is build on 14.04 or maybe even 12.04. Not all that surprising that it's not entirely compatible with newer distro versions.
25) Message boards : BOINC Manager : English display in French version (Message 88507)
Posted 18 Oct 2018 by Juha
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#ifdef THESE_STRINGS_ARE_FOR_GETTEXT ?
26) Message boards : BOINC Manager : English display in French version (Message 88503)
Posted 17 Oct 2018 by Juha
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Some thoughts.

If you download wxWidgets source tarball from their website it includes compiled translations. Windows installer would need to be modified to install the files which would probably require Rom to do it and since Rom is not really actively involved in BOINC any more...

I wonder what other strings we use from wxWidgets. Looking at the template I guess not all that many. Maybe a few error messages.

All it really needs is making "Yes" and "No" visible to string scraping tool. There is clientgui/Localization.cpp,.h. Maybe not pretty but it's already in use.
27) Message boards : Questions and problems : Exclusive apps cannot be specified with absolute path (Message 88283)
Posted 1 Oct 2018 by Juha
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Try using "x86_64-pc-linux" plus or minus a character as <exclusive_app>. BOINC gets the program name from /proc/pid/stat which records only 15 characters of the name.
28) Message boards : Questions and problems : Exclusive apps cannot be specified with absolute path (Message 88270)
Posted 29 Sep 2018 by Juha
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BOINC not playing nice may be caused by Linux kernel autogrouping feature. See sched(7). I have autogrouping disabled on my Linux box because it didn't play nicely with BOINC. I can't remember the details, it's too long ago when I made that change. I thought it was kernel bug but that man page makes it sound like that's how it's supposed to work. (Puns not intended.)

I'll go and check the source about the exclusive apps.
29) Message boards : Questions and problems : Exclusive apps cannot be specified with absolute path (Message 88248)
Posted 27 Sep 2018 by Juha
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Please do a bit testing for me.

Run clang and examine the various files in /proc/pid-of-clang/. You'll probably find the program name in the files in different forms. Try every form you find as <exclusive_app>. I suspect one of the forms is shorter than the full name and BOINC is using that one.

You mentioned that BOINC prevents clang from using all the CPU power it could use. This could be happen if the build is running at idle priority level. Is that what's happening and if it is then is it intentional?
30) Message boards : Questions and problems : Exclusive apps cannot be specified with absolute path (Message 88154)
Posted 23 Sep 2018 by Juha
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What exactly does BOINC say if you put that entry in cc_config.xml? Are you editing the config file manually or are you using Manager for it?
31) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinccmd: No usable Gpu Found - boingmgr: Gpu found (Message 87860)
Posted 28 Aug 2018 by Juha
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Thanks. Looks like this changed in Windows 8.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12676312/freeconsole-behaviour-on-windows-8
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/287072/the-c-file-descriptors-0-1-and-2-conflict-with-fre.html
https://github.com/rprichard/win32-console-docs
32) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinccmd: No usable Gpu Found - boingmgr: Gpu found (Message 87849)
Posted 28 Aug 2018 by Juha
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Somewhat related. Does logging to std{out,err}dae.txt work when you use --detach_console? It doesn't appear to be working on Windows 10 but I'm curious if it used to work.
33) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinccmd: No usable Gpu Found - boingmgr: Gpu found (Message 87821)
Posted 27 Aug 2018 by Juha
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GPU detection works in 7.10/12 provided that when the client is started the current directory is the same as where the boinc.exe is. When you start programs from registry you don't have control over the current directory.

You could try a batch file, just have it cd to right directory first. Or you could try something silly like "%systemroot%\system32\cmd.exe /c cd c:\boincexes && boinc.exe --yada --yada" in registry. Or use earlier version, just remember to add .exe to the command line.
34) Message boards : Questions and problems : Conflict between BOINC v. 7.12 and R statistical software prevents participation in BOINC by user of LinuxMint 19 (Message 87728)
Posted 20 Aug 2018 by Juha
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Where did you get R from? The package in Ubuntu repo depends on libcurl4 as does the package in CRAN repo.
35) Message boards : Questions and problems : Can't detect VB notice. (Message 87710)
Posted 18 Aug 2018 by Juha
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There is <dont_use_vbox>.

It might be that Wine doesn't support 64-bit IE engine used in Notices tab. Try leaving a working Manager in some other tab than Notices when you exit it and then try the 64-bit version.
36) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 7.12 not opening TCP listener on Win 10 x64 Pro (Message 87410)
Posted 31 Jul 2018 by Juha
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Well, the client shouldn't hang but I don't know how critical it is. Only one report and another maybe so far.

Should really open an issue but uhh... that feels like too much work right now...
37) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 7.12 not opening TCP listener on Win 10 x64 Pro (Message 87376)
Posted 30 Jul 2018 by Juha
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ukdave74 wrote:
V7.12 now works since removing WSL. I no longer need it installed.


Well, bummer. I mean, it's great that 7.12 works now but in order to find out why the client hung we need a client that, well, hangs.

If you are still around please tell if you had Ubuntu installed before or after FCU?


Richard wrote:
Yes, I can compile and run - though the machine which is Windows-10-capable usually runs Windows 7. What are you suspecting may be the problem? (I have FCU loaded already, so reverting would be a faff)


I was thinking making a debug build, Dave running it and once the client hangs Dave making a dump file (via Task Manager). The dump file could then be opened in Visual Studio to see what the client was doing and see the state of variables. Or alternatively, adding a bunch of printf's before and after functions calls to log where the client is and to log parameters and return values. A possible trouble point is read_from_pipe in hostinfo_wsl.cpp which might be an infinite loop if WSL decides to misbehave.

I have Windows 10 machine updated to 1803 and WSL detection seems to be working fine. This is my daily driver so I'm not exactly enthusiastic about doing a factory reset to test WSL installed before FCU :(
38) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC manager closes on selecting 'Notices' tab (Message 87375)
Posted 30 Jul 2018 by Juha
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Got the log, thanks. Unfortunately it did't provide any insight into what went wrong and how to prevent the Manager from crashing.

The log from debug build tells where the Manager finally crashed but something went wrong before that but that wasn't logged.
39) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 7.12 not opening TCP listener on Win 10 x64 Pro (Message 87367)
Posted 29 Jul 2018 by Juha
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WSL detection is new in 7.12. The way WSL distros are installed changed in Fall Creators Update. Was that Ubuntu you have installed before or after FCU?

Would you be willing to run a debug build or two? I think that's the fastest way to figure out what's going on.
40) Message boards : Questions and problems : Problem with Version 7.12.1 (Message 87363)
Posted 29 Jul 2018 by Juha
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Do you by any chance have Windows Subsystem for Linux installed? Detecting WSL is a new feature in 7.12.


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