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boinc is suspended

Hi all,
These are the messages in boinc


Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||Starting BOINC client version 6.2.12 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||This a development version of BOINC and may not function properly
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops, cpu_sched, checkpoint_debug
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||Libraries: libcurl/7.18.2 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.8
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz [Family 15 Model 1 Stepping 2]
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm up pebs bts
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||OS: Linux: 2.6.27-7-generic
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||Memory: 1008.30 MB physical, 1.39 GB virtual
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||Disk: 18.48 GB total, 12.87 GB free
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||Local time is UTC +5 hours
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||No coprocessors
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST|World Community Grid|URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 730918; location: (none); project prefs: default
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 26-Nov-2007 08:27:22)
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||Host location: none
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||General prefs: using your defaults
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||Reading preferences override file
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 352.90MB
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 705.81MB
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||Preferences limit disk usage to 0.93GB
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||Running CPU benchmarks
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:45 AM IST|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: Requested by project.  Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:50 AM IST|World Community Grid|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't resolve host name
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:34:17 AM IST||Benchmark results:
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:34:17 AM IST||   Number of CPUs: 1
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:34:17 AM IST||   847 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:34:17 AM IST||   2496 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:34:18 AM IST|World Community Grid|[cpu_sched] Starting mb003_00075_6(resume)
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:00:37 AM IST|World Community Grid|Restarting task mb003_00075_6 using hpf2 version 603
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:00:37 AM IST||Running CPU benchmarks
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:00:37 AM IST||Suspending computation - running CPU benchmarks
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:00:37 AM IST|World Community Grid|[cpu_sched] Preempting mb003_00075_6 (left in memory)
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:05:55 AM IST||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 26-Nov-2007 08:27:22)
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:05:55 AM IST||Host location: none
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:05:55 AM IST||General prefs: using your defaults
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:05:55 AM IST||Reading preferences override file
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:05:55 AM IST||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 352.90MB
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:05:55 AM IST||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 705.81MB
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:05:55 AM IST||Preferences limit disk usage to 0.93GB
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:17:30 AM IST||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 26-Nov-2007 08:27:22)
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:17:30 AM IST||Host location: none
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:17:30 AM IST||General prefs: using your defaults
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:17:30 AM IST||Reading preferences override file
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:17:30 AM IST||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 352.90MB
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:17:30 AM IST||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 705.81MB
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:17:30 AM IST||Preferences limit disk usage to 0.93GB

Now boincmgr is hung/hanged somewhere, either the benchmarks are not being able to run or what?

This is on ubuntu 8.10 boinc 6.2.12

I also tried resetting the project but its of no use.

[Nov 8, 2008 9:05:44 PM]

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Re: boinc is suspended

We don't support that version of BOINC. It was withdrawn by Berkeley (because it was too buggy to work properly).

[Nov 8, 2008 9:21:11 PM]

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Re: boinc is suspended

So how do we upgrade to this version? The Ubuntu repository is still using 6.2.12-1.

[Nov 8, 2008 11:46:49 PM]

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Re: boinc is suspended

On Ubuntu, there is no compelling reason to use BOINC 6. Use BOINC 5.10.45, which should be available in the repository.

I'm sure the Ubuntu folks will get their act together eventually with BOINC 6, but until then, use 5.10.

Most of the features that were promised in BOINC 6 evaporated, and the only remaining major feature was security improvements for Windows and better support for Windows Vista. None of this is relevant to Linux.

[Nov 8, 2008 11:50:43 PM]

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Re: boinc is suspended

Hi all,
Sorry to break bad news but there is no 5.10.45 on Intrepid Ibex (or Ubuntu 8.10) . We have only 6.2.12-1 on ubuntu

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=bo...=intrepid&section=all

So for GNU/Linux ubuntu users the only way is to download an old working version of the same from boinc or WCG site.

[Nov 9, 2008 4:09:26 AM]

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Re: boinc is suspended

You can simply select a different repository.

[Nov 9, 2008 4:51:27 AM]

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Re: boinc is suspended

You can simply select a different repository.

Any link to the the repository you are saying would be nice.

Also do you guys any light at the end of the tunnel for GNU/Linux versions of BOINC (your feel) that would also help us to know what we should stabilize on in Ubuntu/Debian. AFAIK Debian has 6.2.18 in the experimental repository.

[Nov 9, 2008 6:59:43 AM]

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Re: boinc is suspended

Several things bother me about the Messages posted:
1) host name
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:50 AM IST|World Community Grid|Scheduler request failed: Couldn't resolve host name
2) time goes backward
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:34:18 AM IST|World Community Grid|[cpu_sched] Starting mb003_00075_6(resume)
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:00:37 AM IST|World Community Grid|Restarting task mb003_00075_6 using hpf2 version 603
3) Why not allow 600 or 700 MB?
Sunday 09 November 2008 07:33:44 AM IST||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 352.90MB
4) Why bother using a local preferences file?
Sunday 09 November 2008 02:05:55 AM IST||Reading preferences override file

[Nov 9, 2008 8:57:57 AM]

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Re: boinc is suspended

You can simply select a different repository.

Greetings shirish,

I have tested the 8.10 Ubuntu client when it was released and the 6.2 (pre-release) version worked ok for me. It appears that this is not the case for everyone. The easiest way to get the 5.10.45 client installed on your 8.10 Ubuntu machine is to add a few lines to your sources.list file. (NOTE: I use vi to edit my files other people use other text editors like nano/pico) (NOTE2: You will want to do a COMPLETE REMOVAL of the boinc-client and boinc-manager in your synaptic package manager before proceeding. And once the complete removal is complete please close the manager to prevent any issues)

Pull up a terminal by going to Application -> Accessories -> Terminal

type in this to edit the file.
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

In this file look for the 4 lines that reference universe. Right under those, add these two lines.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe

This will pull in the repository for hardy which is linked to the 5.10.45 version of BOINC.

Now you'll want to pull up your Synaptic package manager and click the reload button to pull in the repository information. Once this is done, search for boinc.

Left click on the boinc-client so that it is only highlighted. Then you'll want to "Force version..." which is located under the menu option "Package" at the top of the window. In the pull down box that shows up you'll want to change from 6.2 to 5.10 version of boinc and click Force Version. You'll need to do this for the boinc-manager also. Once this is done, you should see that both of these have the version of 5.10 next to their names, you can now mark them for installation.

Hope this helps,

-Uplinger

[Nov 10, 2008 4:44:45 PM]

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Re: boinc is suspended

One more thing, when you do this, you will need to be careful when updating your machine in the future as it will always try to update your boinc-client to the 6.2 version which is something you won't want to do. So be careful on installing updates to remove the check marks next to boinc-client and boinc-manager.

-Uplinger

[Nov 10, 2008 4:51:32 PM]

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