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Thread: Unable to Upload Work Unit Results After Ubuntu Linux Upgrade to 8.10 |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Just to put my own final solution at the end of this thread that I started just over a week ago when my Linux machine was unable to upload completed work units after an Ubuntu upgrade to version 8.10.
After reading all your suggestions, and spending hours trying many of them and even succeeding in uploading the completed work units I ultimately threw in the towel and did a clean re-install of Ubuntu-8.04-LTS. That is the version I had been using, which had worked perfectly, and which Ubuntu promises to support until 2011. It should be noted on this board that Ubuntu then pushed BOINC version 5.10.45 which I had learned from this board is the last stable version. Again my system is happily crunching the numbers, and I have a sense it is running smoother. The decision to do a reformat and clean reinstall of the older OS version came when Ubuntu 8.10 failed to boot properly. Enough was enough on a system I only use for number crunching while web surfing. Hopefully, all was not in vain. I did learn more about Linux and hopefully there is now some contact between the folks at WCG, BOINC and Ubuntu that will lessen the likelihood of automatic installs of unstable versions of BOINC with new versions of Ubuntu. All three organizations have the common good as a goal, and a little coordination will benefit all of them and all of us crunchers. |
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Joseph Kondrot
Cruncher Joined: Nov 21, 2005 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Using the command line work around below I have been able to upload the four work units that were waiting in my system.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client stop cd /var/lib/boinc-client/ sudo mv ca-bundle.crt ca-bundle.crt.old sudo wget http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/browser/trunk/.../ca-bundle.crt?format=raw sudo mv ca-bundle.crt?format=raw ca-bundle.crt sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client start -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you! Those steps fixed my client.  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
It can be fixed by opening up a terminal, and running: cd /var/lib/boinc-client/ Then reboot, you may need to detach from wcg in the boinc manager, then (re)attach to WCG. It's working fine now on my 64bit Ubuntu 8.10 install here now :D I just installed Ubuntu 8.10 (sick to death of Windows; I've been running it ever since Windows 286 came on 5.25's) and was wondering why all my other projects were running fine - just not WCG. The steps above worked perfectly. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I haven't played Admin on a Unix box since the days when a SparcStation II running Solaris 1.x was the hottest thing short of a Cyber 205!!! |
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Germano_0x
Cruncher Joined: Jun 11, 2008 Post Count: 6 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I managed to get Intrepid's BOINC (6.2.12) client running nicely with WCG here :) There's a bug submitted on launchpad about this here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boinc/+bug/246205 It can be fixed by opening up a terminal, and running: cd /var/lib/boinc-client/ Then reboot, you may need to detach from wcg in the boinc manager, then (re)attach to WCG. It's working fine now on my 64bit Ubuntu 8.10 install here now :D Thank you man, this is working very well!!! You saved me eheheh |
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[AF>EDLS]GuL
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If the BOINC package is set up correctly, you do not need ca-bundle.crt at all. In fact, I recommend deleting it, since clearly an old or broken version is included with this particular Ubuntu package. I am under ubuntu 8.10 and I have used the fix proposed by Didactylos. WCG now works fine. Many thanks  GuL |
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shanen
Cruncher Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 27 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Seems to be a very helpful thread, and I'll try it when I return to that machine, but I have to ask why the Ubuntu people went with buggy BOINC software when they weren't ready to accept OpenOffice 3? Also seems weird that WCG insists on certificates if none of the other projects use them. Everyone's asking for troubles?
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3716 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi shanen!
----------------------------------------About Ubuntu people's choices for their distros it is an interesting question but you should rather ask them and not us for a valid answer.  About WCG and certificates, WCG does not insist on certificates, it is insisting on security. And doing so is not asking for trouble, it is avoiding more serious trouble. Secure communication is used by WCG for the client-to-server traffic to ensure integrity of results returned to WCG. Every day between 220,000 and 240,000 results are returned successfully to WCG these last days, so SSL is not really a handicap for WCG members. And this number has been as high as 485,097 in February this year. No other Boinc project considers security as seriously as WCG, which does not forcibly mean that it is these other projects which are right. Cheers. Jean. |
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