Posts by Keith Myers

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41) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions Message 113565 Posted 7 Feb 2024 by Keith Myers	Do what the message states. Quit Firefox so the snap can update. Look in your System Monitor and kill the instance that is still running. If you don't see any instance there then just stop Firefox through snap. sudo snap info firefox sudo snap stop firefox sudo snap refresh sudo snap info firefox sudo start firefox If you still get the message try: sudo snap stop firefox sudo snap disable firefox sudo snap refresh sudo snap enable firefox sudo snap info firefox sudo snap start firefox
42) Message boards : Questions and problems : Where is the cc_config.xml file suppose to live? Message 113541 Posted 3 Feb 2024 by Keith Myers	The BOINC data directory location is always printed out in the beginning of the stdoutdae.txt file, IOW the BOINC Event Log. If you can find that file, it will tell you where BOINC thinks its data directory is located. As Jord states, client and project preferences are in the global_prefs and global_prefs_override xml file in the data directory.
43) Message boards : BOINC client : No suitable wxWidgets library found. Message 113477 Posted 27 Jan 2024 by Keith Myers	I only build the boinc-client. May be I will need to build the boinc and start a the same time. If you only build the client, you shoudn't be getting any warning for wx-widgets. The gtk and widgets libraries are only needed for the manager ./_autosetup ./configure --disable-server --disable -manager --enable-client make
44) Message boards : Questions and problems : Where is the cc_config.xml file suppose to live? Message 113476 Posted 27 Jan 2024 by Keith Myers	If /var/lib/boinc is also where the project folders are . . . that is the correct location.
45) Message boards : BOINC client : Downloading Extra Work Message 113431 Posted 23 Jan 2024 by Keith Myers	Some projects, in fact, most projects set a physical limit on how many tasks a host can hold or be sent. Projects set rules for how many cpu tasks or how many gpu tasks based on the number of cores in the host or the number of gpus the host has. This does not always align with the days of work setting in the client. My favorite project has a limit of sixteen gpu tasks per host. That's it. No more than that can ever be held on the host. Granted some tasks take half a day to run, but some only take an hour or less. You just have to accept what the project imposes for their rules.
46) Message boards : Questions and problems : GUI RPC password not generated in BOINC headless Message 113430 Posted 23 Jan 2024 by Keith Myers	You can input your own password in the file. It does not have to be the salted, auto-generated password the software is supposed to create. The password can be anything you want. Even blank, no password needed.
47) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. Message 113411 Posted 21 Jan 2024 by Keith Myers	If you have access to his computers, you will be able find his userID and hostID's for his computers by examining the client_state.xml file on each computer for all of the projects he is attached to on each machine. This will allow you to see what he was doing on each project. The client_state.xml file is in the BOINC folder. The BOINC folder can be in different directory locations depending on the OS used on the host. My condolences for your loss.
48) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 113401 Posted 19 Jan 2024 by Keith Myers	Numberfields is back and reachable. But not all processes are running yet. Getting a mysql error.
49) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 113398 Posted 19 Jan 2024 by Keith Myers	Numberfields@home seems to be down and unreachable.
50) Message boards : Questions and problems : Where is the cc_config.xml file suppose to live? Message 113369 Posted 14 Jan 2024 by Keith Myers	The config file belongs in the BOINC folder. So wherever that is on your Linux distro. Most put that in /var/lib/boinc or /etc/boinc-client
51) Message boards : Questions and problems : Running while Suspended Message 113355 Posted 9 Jan 2024 by Keith Myers	If you are using the BOINC Manager task bar icon menu, the suspend menu feature is only for 60 minutes. You need to suspend projects or individual tasks via the BOINC Manager program proper through the Projects or Tasks tabs and left panels.
52) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. Message 113338 Posted 1 Jan 2024 by Keith Myers	Cale Yarborough, motorsports legend, dies at 84 https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2023/12/31/cale-yarborough-fierce-competitor-and-three-time-cup-series-champion-dies-at-age-84/
53) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 113302 Posted 18 Dec 2023 by Keith Myers	Universe is back down again with no feeder or other backend processes. Can't report or get any work.
54) Message boards : Questions and problems : Only 1 out of seven projects reporting work Message 113129 Posted 17 Nov 2023 by Keith Myers	I am attached to seven projects: GPUGrid.net Rosetta@home This is not what I signed up for. I want to see work in the other projects. They all have work available. What is wrong here? What do I need to do? I cannot remember the last time I got work from them. https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/server_status.php https://www.gpugrid.net/server_status.php Nothing to send Sign up to yoyo they have plenty WCG comes and goes. Climate is a waste of energy, CO2 levels drop any lower most life could end. We are about 417 and should be 10x that to turn everything green I have no issues getting work from WCG and GPUGrid. All you have to do is ask for work and you shall be rewarded. Set up a cron job, watch command, Windows task scheduler, PowerShell script or whatever favorite script to ping each project with a update command every 5-15 minutes and you get rewarded with work.
55) Message boards : Questions and problems : Only 1 out of seven projects reporting work Message 113109 Posted 15 Nov 2023 by Keith Myers	GPUGrid is ONLY for modern NVIDIA gpus. You need at least series 525 drivers. The only work available is the ATMbeta application which means you MUST enable beta/test applications in your Project Preferences. Read the limitations on this work in the main ATMbeta thread in News section. https://www.gpugrid.net/prefs.php?subset=project https://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=5379 You will not receive any direct response from the project admins, only a response in the ATMbeta thread I linked.
56) Message boards : Questions and problems : Can't see gpu's Message 113001 Posted 27 Oct 2023 by Keith Myers	All those projects use OpenCL apps. So you don't have any OpenCL component loaded with your drivers. Plus there are no gpu apps or work for Milkyway project. So start with reinstalling your drivers to include support for OpenCL.
57) Message boards : Questions and problems : account missing Message 112817 Posted 6 Oct 2023 by Keith Myers	If you just didn't forget your username and password for the project, likely then that the project lost or updated its user database and older records were dumped, lost or purged. So you had to create a new account and get a new hostID. You should look in your host details page, check the function to look for hosts that haven't contacted the project in over 30 days and see whether your old hostID is still visible. If that is so, you can merge your old hostID into the new hostID you just created and get back your missing host stats.
58) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC Manager memory saturation upon adding project Message 112754 Posted 26 Sep 2023 by Keith Myers	Code-signing has to do with certs. New client probably needs new certs. BOINC is constantly polling the server trying to update your certs.
59) Message boards : Questions and problems : gstate.init() fails error code 192 Message 112737 Posted 23 Sep 2023 by Keith Myers	Post your boinc-client.service file contents at /etc/systemd/system/boinc-client.service.d/ Likely the service file is setting up the wrong read-write permissions. Do you have this in the file? It helps with the newer distros and clients. PrivateTmp=true ProtectSystem=strict ProtectControlGroups=true
60) Message boards : Questions and problems : 7.24.1: install dialog box blocks win11 taskbar search input Message 112735 Posted 22 Sep 2023 by Keith Myers	Problem with the password manager. I too have issues with a password manager which always grabs focus of any input box. Solution is to copy the password for the account into the scratch buffer and paste into the desired input box.

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