Posts by OldSeaDog

1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Diskspace problem (5.8.11) (Message 11011) Posted 18 Jun 2007 by OldSeaDog Post: Maybe you're looking in an old install dir? If you can start BOINC from where you last started it and see any project work units, you surely will be. I found them using the slocate database; they are at /var/lib, so it is running at the system level, not at the user level. In any case, it is running, but there is another problem. Initially the system reported that the disk was full and the diskspace was occupied about 50% by BOINC and 50% by other applications. Now it continues to be occupied comnpletely, BOINC occupies abot 75 MB and other applications occupy 1.341 x10^42 bytes. I don't own a calculator large enough to hold the digits in order to reduce it to MB, GB, TB or even PB. I cheated and found out that it is 1.16 xE^2i EB (that is exabytes, which is 1024 petabytes...). I don't know what is larger than that. It must be counting all the drives on the planet!
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Diskspace problem (5.8.11) (Message 10889) Posted 13 Jun 2007 by OldSeaDog Post: Hi, A few questions for you: * Could you copy-and-paste your disk space settings here? * Could you check to see if you have a global_prefs_overwrite.xml file? * How much disk space is used by Boinc / used by other stuff / free on that particular drive? * Where and how big is your paging file? It's worthwhile having a read through the contents of this thread. Using BOINC Manager, the following numbers are shown: (the new gui does not allow for cut&paste) Use at mot 10 GB disk space Leave at most 0.1 GB disk space free Use at most 50% of toal disk space Write to disk at most every 60 seconds Use at most 75% of ag file (swap space) Memory Usage: Use at most 50% wen computer is in use Use at most 90% when computer is idle BTW, I am not sure if I made this perfectly clear (I am starting to sound like Nixon), but the pie chart on the Disk tab shows I have 0 disk space free, even though df (and other tests) all show me wth over 150 GB free. It shows 66.8 MB used by BOINC, 66.8 MB used by other programs and nothing left. However, in a few minutes that will change. The ratio stays pretty constant but the numbers can sway anywhere from what is shown, to 2/3 of it or less. That is the weird part. Up until that point everything was odd but that puts it WA-A-A-Y out there. BOINC appears to be getting file stats info from someplace other than where df gets it, obviously! If I have to, I will break down and do a new install (it won't be the first time, I can assure you. I have space for about 8 different distros!). I don't lose any work done, but may lose work in hand. I am going nuts here. I realized I didn't mention the global_prefs.. file so I went looking for it, only to find that my BOINC directory contains only 10 files, the executables and the .png files, and the locale directory. There are no project files, and no logs (among many missing files). Has there been a major change to the directory structure, or has my BOINC system been completely trashed and I am back to the beginning, again!
3) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Diskspace problem (5.8.11) (Message 10888) Posted 13 Jun 2007 by OldSeaDog Post: Hi, A few questions for you: * Could you copy-and-paste your disk space settings here? * Could you check to see if you have a global_prefs_overwrite.xml file? * How much disk space is used by Boinc / used by other stuff / free on that particular drive? * Where and how big is your paging file? It's worthwhile having a read through the contents of this thread. Using BOINC Manager, the following numbers are shown: (the new gui does not allow for cut&paste) Use at mot 10 GB disk space Leave at most 0.1 GB disk space free Use at most 50% of toal disk space Write to disk at most every 60 seconds Use at most 75% of ag file (swap space) Memory Usage: Use at most 50% wen computer is in use Use at most 90% when computer is idle BTW, I am not sure if I made this perfectly clear (I am starting to sound like Nixon), but the pie chart on the Disk tab shows I have 0 disk space free, even though df (and other tests) all show me wth over 150 GB free. It shows 66.8 MB used by BOINC, 66.8 MB used by other programs and nothing left. However, in a few minutes that will change. The ratio stays pretty constant but the numbers can sway anywhere from what is shown, to 2/3 of it or less. That is the weird part. Up until that point everything was odd but that puts it WA-A-A-Y out there. BOINC appears to be getting file stats info from someplace other than where df gets it, obviously! If I have to, I will break down and do a new install (it won't be the first time, I can assure you. I have space for about 8 different distros!). I don't lose any work done, but may lose work in hand.
4) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Diskspace problem (5.8.11) (Message 10881) Posted 13 Jun 2007 by OldSeaDog Post: Hello.. This is my first post here, I hope I'm posting in the right place. Well, straight to business: I can't run rosetta@home at all; It gives me the following messages: ------ 14.4.2007 21:47:46\|rosetta@home\|Message from server: No work sent 14.4.2007 21:47:46\|rosetta@home\|Message from server: (there was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated) 14.4.2007 21:47:46\|rosetta@home\|Message from server: Not enough disk space (only 82.6 MB free for BOINC). Review preferences for minimum disk free space allowed. ------ Now, I've tried setting resource share up - didn't help. I tried setting more available space, from 1GB to 2GB, but clearly, it isn't using even that much. I tried to set it manually from prefences on my computer, with no results. It worked fine for a long time but then the issue just came up out of nowhere. Can you help me? Is there any other way to allocate more disk-space to BOINC and/or separate projects? It's a little odd to me that you can't configure it straight from the program settings either.. Oh, and as it propably is clear but yeah I run seti@home too, rosetta isn't my only project. But as said, there was no problems earlier with this. Anyway, thanks for any response in advance. For what it's worth, I am running Linux (Kubuntu 7.04) and 5.9.5 of BOINC. I have a total of 10 partitions on 2 drives, BOINC runs off my home drive, a 20 GB partition off my SATA drive of 320 GB, the rest available for the server exceptt for the boot partition. The other drives contain other distros and a backup drive. The reason I am telling you all this is that my system is also saying I have no space, even though df says I have 85% of my drive free. BTW, I have been fighting a world of problems with SETI, Rosetta and MalariaControl since I restarted my computer after installing Kubuntu. 6.10 worked fine, butrolling back is a huge issue. Anyway the machine, BigBertha, has an AMD 64X2 4200+ processor in an ASUS M2N-SLIDeluxe motherboard, running with a fan (I don't trust Cool'nQuiet thank you very much. I have 2 GB of RAM nd, as I said,2 hard drives, one SATA and an old IDE drive which I am watching like a hawk with lm-sensors. I have an NVidia 7600 GT video card and an MSI Digital@nywhere ATSC TV card. I am using a Logitech S510 desktop (with lousy drivers, dropping stuff all over the place). I can continue, but that pretty much describes the good bits, I also have USB based Bluetooth, wireless, etc, Can anyone tell me what the h**l is going on before I trash the whole thing? Some of these are dear to my heart (SETI, I have been with since Adam was in short pants and my daughter is a malaria researcher, so...) Thaks in advance, I just realized I am missing a 0 (like I said, lousy driver). My home drive is 200 GB, not 20 GB, not that it makes a whole lot of difference
5) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Diskspace problem (5.8.11) (Message 10880) Posted 13 Jun 2007 by OldSeaDog Post: Hello.. This is my first post here, I hope I'm posting in the right place. Well, straight to business: I can't run rosetta@home at all; It gives me the following messages: ------ 14.4.2007 21:47:46\|rosetta@home\|Message from server: No work sent 14.4.2007 21:47:46\|rosetta@home\|Message from server: (there was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated) 14.4.2007 21:47:46\|rosetta@home\|Message from server: Not enough disk space (only 82.6 MB free for BOINC). Review preferences for minimum disk free space allowed. ------ Now, I've tried setting resource share up - didn't help. I tried setting more available space, from 1GB to 2GB, but clearly, it isn't using even that much. I tried to set it manually from prefences on my computer, with no results. It worked fine for a long time but then the issue just came up out of nowhere. Can you help me? Is there any other way to allocate more disk-space to BOINC and/or separate projects? It's a little odd to me that you can't configure it straight from the program settings either.. Oh, and as it propably is clear but yeah I run seti@home too, rosetta isn't my only project. But as said, there was no problems earlier with this. Anyway, thanks for any response in advance. For what it's worth, I am running Linux (Kubuntu 7.04) and 5.9.5 of BOINC. I have a total of 10 partitions on 2 drives, BOINC runs off my home drive, a 20 GB partition off my SATA drive of 320 GB, the rest available for the server exceptt for the boot partition. The other drives contain other distros and a backup drive. The reason I am telling you all this is that my system is also saying I have no space, even though df says I have 85% of my drive free. BTW, I have been fighting a world of problems with SETI, Rosetta and MalariaControl since I restarted my computer after installing Kubuntu. 6.10 worked fine, butrolling back is a huge issue. Anyway the machine, BigBertha, has an AMD 64X2 4200+ processor in an ASUS M2N-SLIDeluxe motherboard, running with a fan (I don't trust Cool'nQuiet thank you very much. I have 2 GB of RAM nd, as I said,2 hard drives, one SATA and an old IDE drive which I am watching like a hawk with lm-sensors. I have an NVidia 7600 GT video card and an MSI Digital@nywhere ATSC TV card. I am using a Logitech S510 desktop (with lousy drivers, dropping stuff all over the place). I can continue, but that pretty much describes the good bits, I also have USB based Bluetooth, wireless, etc, Can anyone tell me what the h**l is going on before I trash the whole thing? Some of these are dear to my heart (SETI, I have been with since Adam was in short pants and my daughter is a malaria researcher, so...) Thaks in advance,
6) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Malaria Control (Message 10853) Posted 11 Jun 2007 by OldSeaDog Post: This is probably exactly the wrong place to ask this, but has anyone seen malariacontrol.net lately? I can't seem to be able to raise them, and since I currently support them, SETI and Rosetta, only one is getting any time (not that they are complaining). Is there any possibility hat the malaraacontrol problem and the SETI problems are the same problem (an intense hatred for AMD 64x2 or something :0) - I don't know whether there are also problems in non Linux boxes)? I'm seeing the same thing and I'm running Windows on Intel iron so you can't blame AMD for this one. Completely separate projects, on completely separate continents... coincidence I would guess. Odds are somebody will be coming to work at malariacontrol shortly and kick their servers. There are two well-known Indian philosophers whose advice I tend to follow rigourously. They are called Bin Dar and Dun Dat :). At least now I know I am not nuts. btw to add to the unlikelyhood include the different iron as well.
7) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Malaria Control (Message 10846) Posted 11 Jun 2007 by OldSeaDog Post: This is probably exactly the wrong place to ask this, but has anyone seen malariacontrol.net lately? I can't seem to be able to raise them, and since I currently support them, SETI and Rosetta, only one is getting any time (not that they are complaining). Is there any possibility hat the malaraacontrol problem and the SETI problems are the same problem (an intense hatred for AMD 64x2 or something :0) - I don't know whether there are also problems in non Linux boxes)?
8) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Authorization Failure (Message 10652) Posted 4 Jun 2007 by OldSeaDog Post: The problem resolved itself after it locked up my machine forcing a reboot, which I avoid like the plague. I try and keep my uptime in big numbers, like 100+ (that is days, for you processing deprived Windoze users). Linux rules! The Geekosaur
9) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Authorization Failure (Message 10650) Posted 4 Jun 2007 by OldSeaDog Post: The situation has deteriorated. It probably saw me typing and decided t fix me good ad proper. run_client is no longer working. When I try and start it, I get the following: 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.9.4 for i686-pc-linux-gnu 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.16.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [---] Data directory: /home/dad/BOINC 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [---] Processor: 2 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ [Family 15 Model 75 Stepping 2] 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [---] 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 rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm cr8_legacy 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [---] Memory: 1.96 GB physical, 486.27 MB virtual 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [---] Disk: 195.81 GB total, 159.05 GB free 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [SETI@home] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 3398917; location: home; project prefs: default 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [rosetta@home] URL: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/; Computer ID: 515755; location: home; project prefs: default 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [malariacontrol.net beta] URL: http://www.malariacontrol.net/; Computer ID: 42119; location: (none); project prefs: default 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [---] General prefs: from malariacontrol.net beta (last modified 2007-01-13 21:50:03) 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [---] Host location: none 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [---] General prefs: using your defaults 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [---] Reading preferences override file 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [---] Preferences: limit memory usage when active to 1005.69MB 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [---] Preferences: limit memory usage when idle to 1810.24MB 2007-06-03 20:14:48 [---] Preferences: limit disk usage to 9.31GB 2007-06-03 20:15:17 [---] [error] GUI RPC bind failed: 98 I just completely reinstalled BOINC last week, losing all kinds of history. I don't want to be doing this every week - it is failing, badly
10) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Authorization Failure (Message 10649) Posted 4 Jun 2007 by OldSeaDog Post: Hi guys, I have another first, at least for me, and I need advice. I managed o get BOINC up and running and I have the client running right now. However, I can't get the GUI up to see how I am doing in a format that is more intuitive than run_client. Every effort comes back to the same error message, as follows: "Authorization failed connecting to running client. Make sure you start this program in the same directory as the client." If I do it in a terminal window, I get the following: (process:15333): Gdk-WARNING : locale not supported by C library (boincmgr:15333): Gtk-WARNING : Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. 19:58:00: Error: Cannot set locale to ''. Skin Manager: Failed to parse static line color. Using default. Skin Manager: Application name was not defined. Using default. Skin Manager: Failed to load application logo. Using default. (boincmgr:15333): Gtk-WARNING : Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "qtengine", (boincmgr:15333): Gtk-WARNING : Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "qtengine", Skin Manager: Company name was not defined. Using default. Skin Manager: Company web site was not defined. Using default. Skin Manager: Project name was not defined. Using default. Skin Manager: Default tab was not defined. Using default. Skin Manager: Exit message was not defined. Using default. Skin Manager: Failed to load attach to project wizard bitmap logo. Using default. Skin Manager: Attach to project wizard title was not defined. Using default. Skin Manager: Failed to load attach to project wizard bitmap logo. Using default. Skin Manager: Attach to project wizard title was not defined. Using default. Skin Manager: Failed to load 'a' icon. Using default. connect: Operation now in progress That is probably too much info, but... I have a 64X2 AMD 3200+ processor in an ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard, with 2GB of RAM. I have a NVidia 7600 GT video card and all the usual atachments. I have a 320 GB SATA drive and a 250 GB ide drive. Does anyoe have any ideas?
11) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC 5.9.4 Won't Start - Linux, AMD 64X2, Nvidia 7600GT, 2GB RAM (Message 10492) Posted 26 May 2007 by OldSeaDog Post: Take this with a grain of salt as I know next to nothing about Linux on a good day. Is it a 64 bit or a 32 bit distro? If a 64 bit, are the 32 bit libs installed? FWIW, Walt just posted 5.9.5 for Linux. See if the new version will install for you. If not, you can open a Trac ticket. This is my 4th attempt to respond and every time I do my new keyboard manages to screw it up and I have to start again - my fault for gettng a cheap one. The combination of 32 bit libraries and v. 5.9.5 did it. BTW, the version of BOINC on the website for Linux is 5.8.16, not 5.9.5 (it used to be 5.9.4, and walked back a bit ago. For those Linux fans who are not altogether comfortable with th command line, let me lead you through it. Open up a terminal session (in KDE, there is one under the System menu, in Gnome, under Applications, at least in my distros. Then type the following- wget http://einstein.ligo.caltech.edu/download/boinc/dl/boinc_5.9.5_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh Once it downloads, you can use the usual route to install it, as it works in your distro. Enjoy! OldSeaDog, the Geekosaur
12) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC 5.9.4 Won't Start - Linux, AMD 64X2, Nvidia 7600GT, 2GB RAM (Message 9960) Posted 1 May 2007 by OldSeaDog Post: Greetings and Salutations from Canada's National Capital. I have a problem, and I hope there is a genius out there who is up to the task. I have been a BOINCer for a loo-o-ong time, going back to the just SETI days and I ran it on laptops, desktops and servers, and I have never seen this one. I run the install script and it creates the BOINC directory and transfers the files into it, per normal. It automagically runs binstall.sh, per normal. I run /home/user/BOINC/run_manager. Not normal. This is what I get.: /home/user/BOINC/run_manager: line 1: /home/user/BOINC/boincmgr: No such file or directory /home/user/BOINC/run_manager: line 1: /home/user/BOINC/boincmgr: Success File permissions are fine - I have rwx. Oops. I hit the Enter button instead of the shift button. My keyboard/mouse died and I am reduced to using an ancient wired keyboard and mouse from the '80s. Euuch. The continuation- I have tried everything I can think of, and I have a vivid memory and 35 years IT time. I have completely removed it and reinstalled it several times. (This was not with my main data, btw.) I have checked the files to the extent that I can to see if I am missing something. Short of doing a complete reinstall of the OS, I am out of ideas. Anyone else? The OldSeaDog
13) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC 5.9.4 Won't Start - Linux, AMD 64X2, Nvidia 7600GT, 2GB RAM (Message 9959) Posted 1 May 2007 by OldSeaDog Post: Greetings and Salutations from Canada's National Capital. I have a problem, and I hope there is a genius out there who is up to the task. I have been a BOINCer for a loo-o-ong time, going back to the just SETI days and I ran it on laptops, dewsktops and servers, and I have never seen this one. I run the install script and it creates the BOINC directory and transfers the files into it, per normal. It automagically runs binstall.sh, per normal. I run /home/user/BOINC/run_manager. Not normal. This is what I get.: /home/user/BOINC/run_manager: line 1: /home/user/BOINC/boincmgr: No such file or directory /home/user/BOINC/run_manager: line 1: /home/user/BOINC/boincmgr: Success File permissions are fine - I have rwx.

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