My three Ubuntu 10.10 boxes are still rock solid, even as I have been pushing them over the past couple of days to see how many CEP2 they can handle simultaneously.

I installed the latest Ubuntu patches a few days ago, haven't noticed any instability from those either. I'm running boinc 6.10.58 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, installed from the Ubuntu repository.

Which logs are you looking for? The Ubuntu system logs are in /var/log/. The current log is the file called syslog, the older logs are syslog1, syslog.2.gz etc.; 24 hours per log, a week of history.

Looked at all the logs and not seeing anything indicating a problem. It made it through the night without crashing. Guess I'll keep any eye out and see how it will go.

Hello,

I have the same problem reported by Bearcat on my i7-740qm laptop crunching only for WCG, and since day 1 of installing Ubuntu 10.10.

I initially thought that it was because of Firefox (if you google a bit, you will find plenty of people reporting this), and I started to use Cromium. Now, I do not recall it ever crashed during navigating anymore, but it crashes every now and then while watching a movie, or - exactly this night - when just running Boinc.

What happens is that when you force shutdown (no Ctrl-Alt-F1/F6 is possible) and then start again, one (or two WUs, like this night) are resetting to zero the progress but not the CPU time. And then when reporting the WUs "compromised" the server is validating them and eventually recognizing the additional time spent processing by awarding more points. No differences between sciences, it happened to me with FAAH, HCC, and now DDDT2.

I do recall Sekerob in the thread 'I am not a Linux Adapt' was saying something about WUs crashing when internet was not available, but this is not the case (although I was also thinking initially this could be the cause, but even asking Boinc not to connect, still crashing).

I think is something related to Ubuntu itself and having nothing to do with Boinc.

Generally speaking, without purpose of complaining or offending anyone, I take the chance to tell somebody my thoughts: from my experience of newbie with Linux, I feel this operating system not ready for a whole no-hassle user experience. Still too much hardware-dependent (I mean not everything is supported), and as soon as you wish to use an advanced functionality, here you go writing lines and lines of code, and good luck with finding them on the Internet, and cross your finger those lines somebody wrote will work on your hardware.
Apart from the crashing, not working despite all the efforts the lm sensors, to control the fanspeed, not working the microphone, not working the nvidia drivers, I had to reinstall the OS three times and then I give up, also Nouveau are not that bad.

Only thing advanced thing working is stopping the GUI!

See for example this, on crashing and talking about 'tell me what you hardware is and I will tell you who you are!' http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1662450

Full respect for Linux on servers and high-end uses, I wish I were a Linux superuser! ;-)

Cheers.

Edit: added details on sciences

Edit2: added link and some details

Nope. Nothing added until couple days ago when I installed my ATI GPU from my other rig that got the 6950. Wasn't a whole lot of dust in there while in there but did blow that out. There was a update a few days ago that came out but it's been rock solid since the day I wrote about the complaint.

The only part of these postings I understand is the Latin! I have two machines running unattended, problem-free under Linux (Mint Julia).