Hi uplinger. Thanks for offering some help. I was offline for a while due to networking problems (maybe Karmic, maybe not?) but a change to OpenDNS has fixed it for now. I still don't have BOINC working though.

ian@somewhere:~$ cat /var/lib/boinc-client/stdoutdae.txt
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] Starting BOINC client version 6.4.5 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.19.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.15
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] Processor: 1 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ [Family 6 Model 6 Stepping 2]
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] OS: Linux: 2.6.31-14-generic
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] Memory: 1002.50 MB physical, 1.92 GB virtual
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] Disk: 12.49 GB total, 9.30 GB free
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] Local time is UTC +0 hours
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] Not using a proxy
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] Can't load library libcudart
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] No coprocessors
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] Reading preferences override file
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 501.25MB
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 902.25MB
02-Nov-2009 21:08:12 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 6.25GB
02-Nov-2009 21:08:42 [---] [error] GUI RPC bind failed: 98
03-Nov-2009 20:50:24 [---] Starting BOINC client version 6.4.5 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
03-Nov-2009 20:50:24 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
03-Nov-2009 20:50:24 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.19.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.15
03-Nov-2009 20:50:24 [---] Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
03-Nov-2009 20:50:25 [---] Processor: 1 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ [Family 6 Model 6 Stepping 2]
03-Nov-2009 20:50:25 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up
03-Nov-2009 20:50:25 [---] OS: Linux: 2.6.31-14-generic
03-Nov-2009 20:50:25 [---] Memory: 1002.50 MB physical, 1.92 GB virtual
03-Nov-2009 20:50:25 [---] Disk: 12.49 GB total, 9.27 GB free
03-Nov-2009 20:50:25 [---] Local time is UTC +0 hours
03-Nov-2009 20:50:25 [---] Not using a proxy
03-Nov-2009 20:50:25 [---] Can't load library libcudart
03-Nov-2009 20:50:25 [---] No coprocessors
03-Nov-2009 20:50:26 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
03-Nov-2009 20:50:26 [---] Reading preferences override file
03-Nov-2009 20:50:26 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 501.25MB
03-Nov-2009 20:50:26 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 902.25MB
03-Nov-2009 20:50:26 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 6.25GB
03-Nov-2009 20:50:26 [---] This computer is not attached to any projects
03-Nov-2009 20:50:26 [---] Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions

and

ian@somewhere:~$ cat /var/lib/boinc-client/stderrdae.txt
gstate.init() failed: -180

Sorry, I have been adding lots of other software and fixing the networking etc.

The "Ubuntu Software Centre" does not offer the BOINC Client, only the Agent.
IO have subsequently found that if I "disconnect" from the projects I'm not connected to, it opens the dialogue box for me to put in the WCG address, but it doesn't work.

Any ideas please?

Momist,

Can you take a screen shot of what you see and upload it somewhere? If you don't know where to upload a picture to on the website you can email it to support@worldcommunitygrid.org and just make sure you put attn:Uplinger for the subject.

To take a screen shot in ubuntu, you'll go to Applications -> Accessories -> Take Screenshot. This program will ask you a few simple questions, might be best to take a picture of the entire desktop but have BOINC open before you try to take the screen shot.

Also, the the software centre i believe should have both the boinc-client and boinc-manager listed. It looks as though the client installed properly with you being able to post messages. (FYI, the client is the part of the program that actually handles all the communications with the servers, starting and stopping the science applications and other tasks. the manager is just the human interface for it.) Try this in your terminal to see if everything is installed properly.



Once these two steps are done see if your gui looks proper. It may reset what is needed.

Also, if you can't attach to World Community Grid via the command line if the GUI interface is not working for you. (I'm hoping we can figure out what is causing the GUI to not work for you)

This may require two steps, first is to get your account key for world community grid if you do not know it.

Next, take the Account key that is printed, should look like 88bf47981d4a <-- yours will be longer, as this was just an example. And then use it in the next command.


Let me know if any of this helps. Also if you want, please post the output you get from the command lines that I gave you.

shanen,

The shortened links are part of the new forum software. Please right click and copy the link location instead of highlighting the link text. This is the work around I use.

Basically the what the copy command does is take the original file you have in the Downloads directory and overwrites what the symbolic link in the /var/lib/boinc-client folder is pointing to. It does not remove the link to put the file it's place. You can if you want, remove the symbolic link and then copy the crt provided in the link to that folder.

I did not check to see what the diferences were in the ca-certificates.crt as I have not had trouble with changing this file to the one provided in the link.

-Uplinger

Momist,

No reason to download the latest version from boinc.berkeley.edu if your version is working. The agent software is developed by this group.

When you say the automated version has a bug, do you mean the one from our website?

-Uplinger

Momist,

I have not tired it on my system from the command line as I prefer to use the deb's to install applications on the system. One thing that may be causing the problem is that Karmic Koala is planned to run on ext4 and you're old home directory is more than likely still ext3 file system. So I do not know if this is causing the issue as I have heard rumors of permission and access issues between the two file system types if you set up your / as ext4 and /home as ext3...but I have not tested that issue.

I will test the website version on the next machine I install Karmic Koala on. To see if it is just a general issue with Karmic in general.

Glad things are running for you again,
-Uplinger

http://linux.about.com/cs/linux101/g/metacity.htm : Definition: metacity: A lightweight GTK2 based Window Manager. Metacity is a small ((6K lines of code) window manager, using gtk2 to do everything. As HP says, metacity is a "Boring window manager for the adult in you. Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios."

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I do not run Linux.
Lawrence